MarkRNYC

On 11/17/2023 at 12:41 AM, PinkElephant said:

The build in scanner will always produce a picture, type PNG. Which is not necessarily bad: The EN OCR will only work on handwriting when the file is a picture (PNG, JPG, GIF). Handwriting in PDFs is ignored.

To get a pdf with the scan, you can try to print the note to a pdf, or export it to pdf. However control over the outcome is not good.

EN has a separate app called Scannable. This can produce a pdf and send it into EN. A warning: It is old code, and not well maintained.

As 3rd party scanner you can try Lens from Microsoft. It’s a decent scanner app, can make a pdf and it’s free. Share the result into EN.

Last tip for a paid scanner: Scanner Pro from readdle. It is very powerful (own OCR, page manager) and has workflows that can send a scan into EN, into a specified notebook and with a standard set of tags.

Which solution to use depends on your scanning needs and volume.

Thanks. I generally use Genius Scan to create PDFs via my iPhone camera. It's pretty great but to get it to EN, I have to email it and it appears as an attachment in EN and I'd like to see it as I use EN and not have to click on it to open it so I can read it. I'm looking for a solution that is always an "open page/scan" in EN. Thanks for your thoughts. 

Thanks very much. I appreciate the details. Have you ever done this with a larger piece of paper (8.5 x 11) with notes on it? I'm trying to do that too but it seems to take a photo when I want a PDF. 

I keep looking for the Scan a document button but it doesn't seem to exist so I think the instructions are in error  

Thanks again!

The instructions say "Tap the arrow on the new note button, then tap Scan a document" " but there is nothing that says "Scan a document". 

If I tap on the camera icon in a note the options are only "auto" or "photo" but there is wording that says "try scanning documents, whiteboards and business ..." but I don't see how to specify "scan." I would like to scan as a PDF and not take a photo

If I click "+New" on the home screen, the app give me options of camera, sketch, attach and audio. If I select the camera icon, it takes me to the place I described above.

Is there a way to scan something into Evernote as a PDF that displays as an open PDF so I can read the contents without clicking to open a file? I have emailed PDFs to Evernote but then I have to open each one to see the contents when I want to page through Notes.

Thanks for any advice. There seems to be no way to chat live or call or email Evernote with questions. 

Mark