janpeter 0 Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 Hi I am new in this forum and could not find a better place for this troubleshooting question. I run Evernote since many years mainly on Mac (but certain period also on PC) and very happy with it.My question is around searching using OS X Spotlight which usually find text in Evernotes notes headline as well as text.If the note also contain a photo with text and the text is successfully identified with Evernotes excellent central OCR softwarealso the text found in the photos have so far been available for Mac OS X Spotlight. I just upgraded from ver 5.x to ver 6.0.5 for Evernote and I run on OS X 10.9.5 Mavericks.Under ver 5 I could find in Spotlight words identified with OCR but after upgrade I cannot find them with Spotlight.I can find other text in Evernote from Spotlight however. A further clue is that OCR identified text can be searchedwithin Evernote without problem. I have tried a new note with OCR-identification and also some older notes and both show the same problem. I have difficulty to believe that in ver 6 the interaction between Evernote and Mac Sportlight should be limitedand that you many need some premium license to activate this, but if so let me know. I tend to believe it is something related to interaction between Mac OS X and Evernote.Have tried some trick related to recover Mac OS X Spoltlight indexing but did not help. I have also exactly the same problem on an newly installed laptop with OX X 10.10.1 Yousemite. Appreciate some help Jan Peter Link to comment
lykoz 147 Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 I have never been aware that spotlight OSX can find specific notes within Evernote.... This would be an AMAZING WELCOMED feature... Could somebody shed more light on this? I certainly dont find Evenote Note Results using Spotlight... Is this even possible? I would love to has this feature integrated. Link to comment
Level 5* JMichaelTX 4,115 Posted January 17, 2015 Level 5* Share Posted January 17, 2015 @janpeter: As you noted, searching your Evernote Notes using Mac Spotlight has been a feature for quite some time.See EN blog Evernote for Mac: Better Note Editing, Faster Sync, and 100s of Fixes for a description of Spotlight feature. However, starting with EN Mac 5.7, there have been some issues/bugs related to Spotlight.Supposedly, this has all been fixed as of Ver 6.0.5, but maybe you have identified some remaining bugs. With regards to OCR, Evernote does require a Premium account to OCR scanned PDFs that you attach to EN Notes. If you believe you have found a bug, then you can Submit a BUG report via an EN Support Ticket. In the Support Form, select "Report a bug, crash, or data lost", and start the Ticket Title with "BUG: " to make it clear. Reporting a bug should be available to all users, including Free Account owners. My question is around searching using OS X Spotlight which usually find text in Evernotes notes headline as well as text.If the note also contain a photo with text and the text is successfully identified with Evernotes excellent central OCR softwarealso the text found in the photos have so far been available for Mac OS X Spotlight. I just upgraded from ver 5.x to ver 6.0.5 for Evernote and I run on OS X 10.9.5 Mavericks.Under ver 5 I could find in Spotlight words identified with OCR but after upgrade I cannot find them with Spotlight.I can find other text in Evernote from Spotlight however. A further clue is that OCR identified text can be searchedwithin Evernote without problem. . . .I tend to believe it is something related to interaction between Mac OS X and Evernote.Have tried some trick related to recover Mac OS X Spoltlight indexing but did not help. I have also exactly the same problem on an newly installed laptop with OX X 10.10.1 Yousemite. Link to comment
janpeter 0 Posted January 18, 2015 Author Share Posted January 18, 2015 Hi Thank you JMichael for a detailed answer, and to lykoz yes individual notes shouldyou be able to get through OS X spotlight. Concerning OCR what I mean is photos containing text and the photo is taken in either directly (say on a smartphone with Evernote) or indirectly from any camera as jpgand then imported to Evernote. The photo is then processed by Evernote central OCR-enginesand after that text in the photo can ber searched from within Evernote normal search enginethat works on headline, tags, text in notes, and as well on text in images. Thus I have sofar not talked about PDFs that are attached to a note in Evernote. Before I ran Evernote 5.5 (or perhaps 5.6) and could easily by Spotlight find text identified in imagesin a similar way as I can in Evernotes search engine. On my own Mac I run Maverick. I have just configured a brand new MBP running Yousemite and the same problem with Evernote there. After upgrading Evernote to 6.0.5 the possibility I have the same capability to searchfrom within Evernote as before. I can also search in Spotlight from outside Evernotealmost as before. Problem is only that those words identified in images with Evernotes central OCRdoes not show up from Spotlight as they do from inside Evernote search. So my questions is whether this limitation of functionality is a bugor a change policy from Evernote so that you need to buy Premium version nowfor what you had for free in version 5.x. I understand that adding PDF with OCR-identified words belonging to the PDFrequire Premium version - and that is not my complain. Jan Peter Link to comment
Level 5* JMichaelTX 4,115 Posted January 18, 2015 Level 5* Share Posted January 18, 2015 It appears that there are still issues/bugs with Evernote supporting Spotlight searches.See Spotlight doesn’t find any Evernote notesIn particular, see post by Jack at bottom of the thread. Link to comment
janpeter 0 Posted January 19, 2015 Author Share Posted January 19, 2015 Good. Thanks! / Jan Peter Link to comment
mpoweru 0 Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 I am having the same issues as well. Spotlight search of evernote OCR'd .jpg's are still not indexing; only typed note text and PDF's OCR'd prior to evernote upload. Updated to Evernote 6.0.6, Re-Indexed, and tried again; issue still present... Note: Utilizing direct d/l version of Evernote. Link to comment
soundsgoodtome 155 Posted March 24, 2015 Share Posted March 24, 2015 I have a similar issue: Spotlight isn't finding any Evernote notes, at all. I've seen this issue occasionally, over the years, and reindexing Spotlight has usually rectified it. But not this time. I reindexed, last night, but no change. Evernote Mac 6.0.7 (direct download)Yosemite 10.10.3Summer 2014 MacBook Pro Link to comment
Chicago Note Taker 0 Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 I had an issue where spotlight on Yosemite did not read any of my notes. In working with Evernote support, I deleted the APP downloaded from the App store including libraries associated with Evernote and then downloaded the MAC version from Evernote directly. Afterwards, I enabled all web clippers and waited some time and the notes finally showed up in Spotlight. Before you delete libraries from your MAC, consult a specialist to make sure your Evernote files are backed up properly and you do not delete anything else. Link to comment
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