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Re:Evernote Blows Up the ‘Fail Fast’ Gospel by hirundo on Friday June 28, 2019 @11:04AM (#20304991)
I'd like to leave Evernote (I moved to Linux, which they don't support, and their web app is insufficient). But for me the killer feature is doing OCR on PDFs and images you post and including it in search. I haven't found that elsewhere. Does anyone else do that?
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Re:Evernote Blows Up the ‘Fail Fast’ Gospel by zenbob on Friday June 28, 2019 @11:05AM (#20305013)
OneNote has this: "OneNote can search typed text, handwritten notes, and words that appear in inserted images." https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Search-for-Notes-in...

But it won't help your Linux support issue :(

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Re:Evernote Blows Up the ‘Fail Fast’ Gospel by nika1975 on Saturday June 29, 2019 @04:04AM (#20311395)
Unfortunately search in images never works for me in OneNote. I have quite a few PDF documents with scanned contracts as images and none of them are found by OneNote or OneDrive search.The content in the images of the PDF files are immediately available in search results on my Google Drive.
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Re:Evernote Blows Up the ‘Fail Fast’ Gospel by criddell on Friday June 28, 2019 @12:33PM (#20306104)
The last time I tried, OneNote was very slow with this. It took a day or two after saving before my handwritten text would be found by search.
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Re:Evernote Blows Up the ‘Fail Fast’ Gospel by driverdan on Friday June 28, 2019 @11:41AM (#20305456)
If you want to DIY tesseract is open source and does decent OCR. You can even train it yourself.
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Re:Evernote Blows Up the ‘Fail Fast’ Gospel by sp332 on Friday June 28, 2019 @11:07AM (#20305037)
Dropbox just added this at the end of last year. https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/09/dropbox-finally-adds-autom...
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Re:Evernote Blows Up the ‘Fail Fast’ Gospel by criddell on Friday June 28, 2019 @12:35PM (#20306121)
Dropbox feels like they are in the same shitty spot that Evernote is in. They took way too much cash from investors and can't run a great little file-syncing-and-sharing business.
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