ridleyrumpus

My problem wasn't making them OCRable it was that I didn't know which needed to be converted. I have had to save all attachments in a notebook to a folder, ocr them using Adobe Acrobat and then re import them, but by doing that I lose all the tags etc.

https://www.labnol.org/software/print-password-protected-pdf-files/29918/ Easy

https://www.labnol.org/software/print-password-protected-pdf-files/29918/ Google is your friend. Tested and yes you can print a print protected pdf easily and permanently remove the restriction easily.

How does that work, ie the prevention of printing? There has to be just a flag on the file that prevents that, I would be surprised if there was not a pdf reader out there that ignored it though I have been known yo be wrong.

I don't want to do that as the files may be used in evidence so I do not want to materially alter them or rely on a file derived from them that coukd be questioned etc etc.

No. I had to physically collect and sign for the data in person. It was on CD.

And a jolly good point it is too. Should I point out that the documentation was not only un OCRable but that it included all documents pertaining to an individual that had worked for as a teacher for the past 15 years. The documents, memos, notes, emails etc etc etc were wrapped up in one BIG pdf and each one was in there randomly by date and type. I do not believe that the way the pdf was put together was a random act.

If, as I suspect, it is MS Print to pdf that is to blame I do wonder if it is deliberate or just terrible coding by MS. If I use the MS Print to pdf they do not work, if I use the Adobe equivalent, no problem.

Nor here. The offending PDF's have been sent to me in a bundle being used in a legal case. To make things interesting not all of them are a problem.

That is my gripe, you can enter in notes but not know straight away that they will not OCR via EN and if they don't you have no way of knowing...... If would be nice to have a function to search for all those non readable.

I think that given this it will be best to assume that Evernote is NOT going to OCR anything. It is just too much of a problem to try and fix later when it may or may not have worked and you have no way of knowing which it was. 🙁

Thanks for the reply. I have lots of PDFs that have been supplied to me, I will have to OCR them on acrobat prior to import. PITA bu I do not think I have a choice. Such a pain that Evernote does let you know that it tries and was unable to OCR the note.

Thanks for the teplyDidn't the previous poster say that the pdf given as an example was a pic inside a pdf container? The text isn't selectable at least not until it is ocr'd.

Didn't the previous poster say that the pdf given as an example was a pic inside a pdf container? The text isn't selectable at least not until it is ocr'd.

Understood. However Evernote indicates it will be able to make notes searchable, it is the main reason I bought in. It now looks like it can, sometimes. But more to the point when it cannot it does not let you know (or am I missing a flag somewhere) It would be useful if Evernote had the facility to flag notes that it could not OCR to allow you to go back and OCR only those ones manually. This is going to be a right PITA almost to the point of looking elsewhere.

Thanks for the reply. That is a "Shame". I am using Evernote to build up indexable/searchable evidence in building up a Employment Tribunal case so having everything searchable is sort of the point. My problem now is identifying a workflow that creates searchable pdfs, some work needed and am on it. I can using Adobe tag all files converted. The biggest problem is the data already entered, is there anyway that I can identify those that are NOT searchable without testing manually?

I have now had a reply from support and they confirm that it is not searchable, and suggested seeing if it was searchable in other applications, it isnt. But then they suggested opening it and then saving it in another application, so I tried doing that in Adobe and if I open it and then "Save as" it becomes searchable. Now I have Adobe and Nuance so I have the ability to make a whole folder of pdf's searchable. What I would like to do is make sure that all of the pdf's already entered into Evernote are searchable. Problems I don't know where the pdf's are stored if at all. In the beginning I was deleting files from my import folder once entered into Evernote Not all pdf's would have been saved into my import folder but "sent" to Evernote. Will processing them into searchable versions remove the tags etc that I have already added? Processing every pdf one by one is not practical as there are hundred if not thousands in there. This could be a nightmare and rather removes the reason for using Evernote.

Thanks for the confirmation. I think that the ones that Evernote is not OCR'ing were created using the MS Print to pdf "print driver". Which is a sod as there are quite a lot of them and I cannot see how to tell them apart from other pdf's. Hopefully there will be a way to fix this....

Try this https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UkjsQRc-KGN9yymEuaqixQtWiM5BXSL9/view?usp=sharing

I just tried creating a local notebook and it shows its name in "grey", which I presume indicates it is a local note book? All the other note books have white text which I presume means these are synced notebooks? If so then all the pertinent note books are synced.

Tried it but made no immediate difference. What does that do?

This one does not seem to work for me. Living with autism Perception.pdf

I am a new Evernote user so be kind 😁 I have added some pdfs to Evernote from MS Print to Pdf but even after syncing and waiting, well actually days, they are not searchable. How can I make sure the pdfs become searchable. I do have a pro account.

Testing but I reckon it could be Google Backup and Sync that is busy backing up and syncing anything put into the folder.

Mmmm. If I set it to delete the file once imported, I get one copy in Evernote. If I set it to Keep then I get two copies of each doc in Evernote.