Premium required for searching images for text?

[HPJAJ 0]

Does the basic, free version of Evernote search through images for text, highlight the words you searched for, and yield those results as a normal text search?  Or does only the premium version of Evernote do this?

[BurgersNFries 2,407]

Does the basic, free version of Evernote search through images for text, highlight the words you searched for, and yield those results as a normal text search? Or does only the premium version of Evernote do this?

Last I knew, this is available in the free version. Since it's free, you should try it.

[ScottLougheed 1,316]

 

Does the basic, free version of Evernote search through images for text, highlight the words you searched for, and yield those results as a normal text search? Or does only the premium version of Evernote do this?

Last I knew, this is available in the free version. Since it's free, you should try it.

 

 

Last I knew this was the case too, however, here is a puzzling post by charboyd, and an unanswered question from me, that indicates something might have changed (aggravatingly without any announcement, as has become the norm!).

https://discussion.evernote.com/topic/65249-search-issue-issue-w-ocr-jpegs-worked-1st-day/?p=295576

 

If so, I don't know what frustrates me more, the change itself (which really handicaps free accounts.... though that iso to some extent understandable from a business perspective), or the fact it (presumably) occurred silently. 

 

EDIT: A quick scour of the knowledge base doesn't turn anything up either. So either the Knowledge Base is out of date, or charboyd was wrong, or some unknown third scenario:

No mention of needing premium in any of these article:

https://evernote.com/contact/support/kb/#!/article/39583688 "How to search for text inside an image"

https://evernote.com/contact/support/kb/#!/article/23169032 "Why are my scanned PDFs not appearing in my search results?" - mentions the premium requirement for PDFs ONLY 

 https://evernote.com/contact/support/kb/#!/article/27986277 "Evernote Premium Features" - Mentions "faster image recognition [sic]", but does not state premium is a requirement for text recognition

 

So there is a pile of conflicting information out there. 

[BurgersNFries 2,407]

Last I knew this was the case too, however, here is a puzzling post by charboyd, and an unanswered question from me, that indicates something might have changed (aggravatingly without any announcement, as has become the norm!).

https://discussion.evernote.com/topic/65249-search-issue-issue-w-ocr-jpegs-worked-1st-day/?p=295576

If so, I don't know what frustrates me more, the change itself (which really handicaps free accounts.... though that iso to some extent understandable from a business perspective), or the fact it (presumably) occurred silently.

I had not seen that post, Scott. But stuff like this is exactly why I prefaced my reply with "last I knew..." Indeed very exasperating playing this guessing game of what features were deprecated today.  Even more irritating is that they now want this message board (and KB) to be the support venues for free users.  But it's really difficult to provide answers to new users, if we are not aware of what has been changed.  Add to that, that your request for clarification in that thread has gone unanswered now for a couple of weeks. 

 

I noticed that you had mentioned you were a free user. While you can search text within your note, you will not be able to index PDFs or JPEGs (Handwritten notes). Upgrading your account to Premium or Business will unlock these kinds of features. Free Evernote users can still search keywords, notebooks, notes and tags.

[George P. Burdell 1]

Just upgraded to Premium today, you can search inside images (not PDF's) with the free version but recent versions of the Windows client have a problem where the OCR index seems to get corrupted.

 

I'm running an older version of the Windows client to avoid this problem. But the OCR worked just fine (with that version, web or iOS) with the free version of Evernote.

 

Chris