I wanted to share how I use a scanner to scan directly into Evernote using a Mac. To scan I used a program called 'Image Capture' that comes standard with OS X (/Applications/Image Capture). This app automatically detected my scanner as a capture device (it supports most common scanners and cameras). In essence all you have to is set Evernote as the 'Automatic Task' as well as some reasonable defaults for the quality of the scan (as you can see on the screenshot).
Some notes: using 1-bit PNG files makes the files very small, but the quality is not really good. I would probably suggest to experiment with some different settings to see what quality suits your purposes. Another point worth mentioning is that if you use PDF as a format – Еvernote doesn't currently make them searchable. To leverage the image-recognition use JPEG or PNG.
Hope this helps someone. I currently use this setup myself and it is working pretty well. In the near future I also plan to make some Automator/AppleScript actions to automate this even further.
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I wanted to share how I use a scanner to scan directly into Evernote using a Mac. To scan I used a program called 'Image Capture' that comes standard with OS X (/Applications/Image Capture). This app automatically detected my scanner as a capture device (it supports most common scanners and cameras). In essence all you have to is set Evernote as the 'Automatic Task' as well as some reasonable defaults for the quality of the scan (as you can see on the screenshot).
Some notes: using 1-bit PNG files makes the files very small, but the quality is not really good. I would probably suggest to experiment with some different settings to see what quality suits your purposes. Another point worth mentioning is that if you use PDF as a format – Еvernote doesn't currently make them searchable. To leverage the image-recognition use JPEG or PNG.
Hope this helps someone. I currently use this setup myself and it is working pretty well. In the near future I also plan to make some Automator/AppleScript actions to automate this even further.
Best,
-Alex
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