FreezerburnV

All those downsides are fair. But I'm confused about why you say I didn't read the thread? The original post was about how the search wasn't finding PDFs that Evernote should be able to search the text in images in them, and from what I understand of what was being said was that Evernote couldn't OCR images inside of PDFs so I was providing some evidence of the capability to do that.

This doesn't make any sense to me. I just did a quick test with my own notes and I'm getting the opposite of what you're claiming Evernote does. I recently used Evernote's Scannable app on my iPhone to create PDFs of a ton of paper documents I had lying around so I could throw them away. So I have a bunch of fresh PDFs that only include images directly from my phone's camera. I did nothing to add OCR data to them, I have no plain text in the PDF anywhere. But I can use Evernote's search and it will return results that only include notes with these PDFs that only have images inside of them, because it managed to OCR the text in those images. If the PDF already had an application do OCR on the images inside of it, that's when Evernote (as far as I'm aware) doesn't do its own OCR. (which I believe you say) I've had this issue in the past when using a Scansnap scanner where it would use its own OCR software, and the search results were poor in comparison to Evernote's systems. It's definitely "safer" to upload a bunch of images to a note because you won't have to deal with issues of a piece of software inserting its own interpretation of what text is in the PDF, but Evernote has the capability to run its own OCR on images in PDFs.

I've been a programmer for 10 years, I know a thing or two about options that can be taken, performance of computers, etc. The issue here isn't hardware or anything, it's organization-based and probably legacy code-based. I literally can't even imagine what EN's devs have to deal with in order to make something like this work better. Any operation that can be performed in a UI that freezes it should be considered a bug, even if at its heart it's a performance issue. This is largely here for EN employees to eventually see and use as a reference for optimizing/fixing stuff... someday. Not like this is something urgent, as I literally just made a new note by clipping a simplified article note.

Something has to take the article and convert it to the simplified version, even if it's the browser you're clipping from. The fact that the web clipper can handle this but the Evernote application can't isn't particularly great. Also this clip was made years ago, I think before "simplified article" was even an option. Also even if it takes a while to process 3.8MB of content... I would still expect that to be done in the background and not freeze the UI of the app. I know that modern Evernote is just a browser, but Electron (and browsers) absolutely have access to tools to process stuff in the background. Or the ability to submit a request to an Evernote API endpoint to do the conversion work on their end and then just replace the note content once it's done. Lots of options here.

Exactly what the title says. I realized that some HTML content that got saved looked empty, and instead of trying to re-clip it I was going to see if the simplified version of it had the saved content. But each time I've tried to click the button to "simplify and make editable", it just freezes until Evernote detects the app should be restarted. On top of that, the interface gets extremely slow when trying to interact with the note. You can see the note at: https://www.evernote.com/shard/s2/sh/600d6694-2527-45b7-bc7d-d456f5eb8427/MFNatGg2PZCbNl5fGQsd4d6YZ4AQszI8tuMF9kiZTgvkpo6qMj-PJAi7pg It's supposed to be the content of: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/01/dude-you-broke-the-future.html My main theory of what's going wrong is that the original clip tried to save a HUGE number of comments (as the page is very long when scrolling) instead of just the article text, and that's causing Evernote to choke since... well, frankly the new Evernote app has a long way to go in terms of performance still. (though it does make me happy to hear interviews about how much of the team is working on stuff like syncing and performance so I'm hopeful it'll get better over time, and it's definitely gotten better since the original v10 release. OOF that version was rough) I can easily make a new note with just the simplified article, but I wanted to report this behavior with the specific example to hopefully give the Evernote team a concrete item to work with for optimization.