(Archived) Livescribe notes not text searchable

[jchiar 2]

I am using the latest version of Livescribe with Evernote.

I have created some notes with Livescribe and that OCRS my writing fine.

Ive sync'd them to EVERNOTE.

However if i search on some text, none of the words are found.

My handwriting isnt that bad.

What gives?

[blysik 0]

If your Livescribe software is already OCRing your notes, I would believe it creates PDF files with keywords or something somewhere? I would look how it's doing that, and maybe import the PDFs it already creates instead.

[jchiar 2]

It doesnt OCR automatically definitely not before exporting to EVERNOTE.

However i got it to work. I just needed to wait a few hours for the photo recognition magic to happen.

Also It doesn't do partial word recognition 'heck' versus 'check' or recognize names...

Pretty cool though.

[blysik 0]

If you use the 'MyScript' add-on, it would do OCR at the Livescribe desktop level. I'm not sure which OCR is better, Evernotes or that.

[jchiar 2]

Hate to say, but from my results the plugin seems to work better.

[BurgersNFries 2,406]

Are your notes in PDF format? OCR for handwriting works better in jpeg format.

viewtopic.php?f=30&t=15182&p=59814&hilit=handwriting+recognition+pdf#p59616

Also, be sure you've sync'd the notes UP to the EN servers, allowed time to have them OCR'd (premium accounts have higher priority & are done typically in an hour or so) then sync'd DOWN to your desktop.

[jchiar 2]

No, they are in PNG. This is the way livescribe sends to evernote.

[BurgersNFries 2,406]

Also, be sure you've sync'd the notes UP to the EN servers, allowed time to have them OCR'd (premium accounts have higher priority & are done typically in an hour or so) then sync'd DOWN to your desktop.