I saw it run through it’s OCR process and it took literally about a second to do it. Rescanned the same page from both apps, uploaded into DTPO and tested on individual words and then phrases within quotes. Only way to test Scanbot was to purchase their premium version for $6, so did that figuring if it doesn’t work well I may be able to get a refund. Will try ScanBot Pro and see if the results are any different.Įdit: So looked at preferences and realized that OCR for Scanner Pro wasn’t enabled. I need such documents have their contents be searchable by DTPO and it doesn’t appear that Scanner Pro is making that happen. Now I gotta pay Abbyy for this, but I think it’s worth it. DTPO “saw” it in the FineScan PDF and did NOT see it from the ScannerPro PDF. Then, I searched on one of the names in the document, a unique word that I knew I didn’t have anywhere else in my library. Then I imported both documents into DTPO. I scanned the single page in Scanner Pro, then I scanned it in Abbyy FineScan and let the latter app do its thing to turn it into a searchable PDF. It listed the names of several key team members. I took a document I got from our building management regarding the sale of the building to a new owner. The processing the app does IS important. Is there some advantage to using Abbyy’s assumedly more robust OCR functionality compared to Scanner Pro or ScanBot Pro, or does it really not make any difference? Given how little I think I understand about this functionality to begin with I’m not sure how I’d even comparatively test them. It uploads somewhere, I’m assuming their servers, where it goes through OCR processing and is then completed and available on the device, at which point I’d send it to DTTG. With a free version of Abbyy FineScanner, you get a few free scans before you have to buy it. With Scanner Pro, I scan a doc and send it to DTTG and it’s there, I don’t see any OCR processing taking place so I’m assuming it’s happening ‘behind the scenes’. Scanner Pro supposedly has OCR functionality, but Abbyy FineScanner purportedly has much more robust OCR functionality. doc file, or does it need to happen outside of those apps and be in place at the time of importing? This is purely a product of my own ignorance so sorry for what I’m sure is a dumb question.ĭoes OCR happen within DTTG or DTPO when importing a new document like a PDF or. One thing I think I’m confused about is OCR functionality. I too lament the absence of a solution other than Evernote to make handwritten notes searchable, but its a big job to do, and making this kind of thing portable or cross-compatible would be a massive undertaking. It won’t do this (as far as I know) with images of handwritten text. An exception is Nebo which does convert your in-app hand writing into text characters which can be manipulated and exported. Which text character would actually be selected when you select a handwritten marking of a character? This kind of probabilistic recognition is fine for search, but it really doesn’t help if you want to do anything with that text other than read the image of it. This is also why the text isn’t selectable or manipulable in Evernote. Evernote relies on its own processing and algorithm to make sense of all of this invisible data. How would that be represented in a portable way that could be interpreted by other programs (I’m sure a standard could be developed of course). This is why your OCR’d handwriting can’t be exported from Evernote. Each image of a character has a lot of possible textual matches. So in Evernote, there is not a 1:1 correspondence between an image of a character and the recognized text, there’s a 1:MUCH GREATER THAN 1 correspondence. Unlike OCR where each image of a character corresponds to a single character of recognized text, handwriting recognizers will create a probabilistic list of potential matches for each image of character or word. The way systems like Evernote (and Apple and Nebo) work is different than the way a typical OCR works. The issue is that unlike recognizing characters in an image of typed text, handwritten letters can be (far more) ambiguous (than images of typed characters). I am not aware of anything that will make scans of hand-written notes searchable other than Evernote.Īpple Notes and Nebo for iPad will recognize hand-written notes you write within the app.
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