tinsoldat 0 Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 I am a new user to Evernote. I have scanned some pages and have had them made into PDF files and put on Evernote. The problem is that the pages are not searchable. I am not finding any of the words that are in the PDF files. What could the problem be?Kind regardsChristian Link to comment
BurgersNFries 2,407 Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 You have to have them in a sync'd notebook. They must be sync'd up to EN servers. Allow time for the EN servers to do the indexing. If you're a premium member, your PDFs will have priority over the free users. I don't know the turn around time on this & of course it depends upon how many PDFs are already in the queue (or how many premium members add PDFs, if you have a free account.) After the EN servers have indexed the PDFs, that has to be sync'd down to your desktop. Link to comment
tinsoldat 0 Posted March 9, 2010 Author Share Posted March 9, 2010 Thanks - so it is just a matter of waiting then. Link to comment
gchamberlin 17 Posted March 10, 2010 Share Posted March 10, 2010 I believe in order to search within PDF files, you have to have a Premium account. See comparison chart at http://www.evernote.com/about/premium/That said, if the PDF has been OCR'ed I believe the OCR'ed text is indexed and is searchable from with Evernote in both a free and premium account.So itsw not just a matter of timing, you have to have the right kind of account. Link to comment
BurgersNFries 2,407 Posted March 10, 2010 Share Posted March 10, 2010 I believe in order to search within PDF files, you have to have a Premium account. See comparison chart at http://www.evernote.com/about/premium/That said, if the PDF has been OCR'ed I believe the OCR'ed text is indexed and is searchable from with Evernote in both a free and premium account.So itsw not just a matter of timing, you have to have the right kind of account.True. Link to comment
fieldandrew 0 Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 Hi there. I have a free 30-day trial account. Does this offer the premium OCR functionality? My understanding is yes but I have PDF'd contracts I've moved into EN 3 days ago and EN didn't index the PDF's. Just trying to understand why. Link to comment
engberg 89 Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 There's no 30-day limit to the Free Evernote subscription ... you can use it for years without losing any functionality.Whenever you upgrade to a Premium subscription, we will OCR the PDFs in your account. Link to comment
handcraftedlife 1 Posted June 9, 2010 Share Posted June 9, 2010 I just upgraded to a Premium account this morning. Will the PDF's that I previously attached to my notes now become search-able? About how long will that take?How about any new PDF's? What is the turn-around time for making those search-able?thanks! Link to comment
engberg 89 Posted June 9, 2010 Share Posted June 9, 2010 Yes, when you upgrade your account, we go back through your old scanned PDFs and process them. This can take a while, but try searching for text in those PDFs tomorrow.New PDFs take priority over the old ones, so those should be done relatively quickly (e.g. an hour or so) Link to comment
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