Mary F 1 Posted July 17, 2012 Share Posted July 17, 2012 From what I've been told at work there are different types of pdfs. Our printer/scanner scans a picture of text, and it is saved to the pdf as an image, the pdf reader can only think of it as an image and not the words. Can Evernote OCR these pdfs? I have several documents/books/etc that I have scanned on the work printer that I want to put on Evernote and be able to find it. Is there anyway to tell what kind of a pdf you have?As another question how can you tell if Evernote has OCRed a pdf. I know that it can take awhile if you're not a premium subscriber. As soon as I get a tablet, I will be doing this but not yet. My work account will not be premium.Any suggestions? Link to comment
bduncan 49 Posted July 17, 2012 Share Posted July 17, 2012 Yes, if you have a PDF that has not been OCR'ed, Evernote can OCR it for you. However, you need to have a Premium account for that to happen. If you don't have a Premium account, you'll need to OCR it on your computer with some OCR software before uploading it. If you do that, Evernote will be able to search the text.The way I tell if Evernote has OCR'ed a PDF is to right-click on it. If it says "Save Searchable PDF as...", Evernote has OCR'ed it. Here's an example: http://cl.ly/image/2o3m2U0J2l0E. Link to comment
Mary F 1 Posted July 17, 2012 Author Share Posted July 17, 2012 I was thinking that I had read that Evernote will OCR everyone's pdfs however premium users came first. It must have referred to some other type of note. That you for the information. Link to comment
bduncan 49 Posted July 17, 2012 Share Posted July 17, 2012 Yeah, Evernote OCRs text in non-PDF images for everyone, but does Premium first. For PDFs, they will only OCR for Premium users. Link to comment
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