(Archived) Evernote doesn't OCR businesscards

[chessplayer 0]

Evernote doesn't ocr my business cards. They are scanned with the ScanSnap 1500 and send to the CardMinderprogram. Afterwards placed in Evernote. The format is PDF. I know it takes a little while untill Evernote does the OCR. But more than 48 hours???

Please help.

[bduncan 49]

Are you a Premium member? Evernote only OCRs if you are Premium. Also, for reasons that have been covered a lot in the Forums, you may want to have the ScanSnap software do the OCR before sending to EN. Your ch

[chessplayer 0]

Thanks you Brooks for helping me out.

I understood from other posts that premium members where the first to be ocr'ed (but not the only-ones). Must have misunderstood.

The ScanSnap software doesn't do OCR in my language. Best way to go: Adobe Acrobat?

Why is the OCR of the scansnap better than the OCR of EN?

[BurgersNFries 2,407]

EN OCRs images for all members, but only premium accounts get PDFs OCR'd.

And depending upon the workload, it can take over 48 hours for free accounts to get their images OCR'd.

[jbenson2 2,149]

Why is the OCR of the scansnap better than the OCR of EN?

Here are 4 reasons why I let ScanSnap do the OCR.

[chessplayer 0]

Thans BurgesNFries, no more questions. I uploaded an image and it worked fine. (Although I don't use images within my system and this function is useless for me.)

Thanks jbenson2. It's clear to me that I have to do the OCR myself before uploading to Evernote. Nevertheless this makes me reconsider the use of Evernote.

Knowing this, I think that my way to go is using the windows 7 (64-bit) search option (instead of EN) and use an additional cloudservice to backup my files (dropbox for example).

(Next text of Brooks Duncan was a big help to me this morning, making this all work:http://www.documentsnap.com/how-to-fix-pdf-search-in-windows-7-64-bit/)

I have one year of premium account Evernote, but might not use it, because of the above and I am also happy with Microsoft OneNote. Does anybody think that Evernote still is a good idea in my situation?

P.S.

Answering my own question: 'The ScanSnap software doesn't do OCR in my language. Best way to go: Adobe Acrobat?':

I think the best way is the ScanSnap OCR (using Abby OCR). It is not in my language, but that doesn't seem to matter (?). I can do it while scanning (faster) and it does a better job on handwritten notes than Acrobat (doesn't recognize them at all).