OCR & Handwritten search
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Pierre Che
It might be a niche feature, but one that is not that common for PKMs, so it might be a good competitive edge.
Personally, I know I have a huge amount of handwritten notes I'd like to make searchable into my knowledge tool, and so far there is only really Evernote that does it (or Onenote, but..).
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Brad Hawkins
Any idea on the timeline for this request?
I have PDFs, Images etc that I need to be able to find via a search based on their content. Eg: Text in a PDF, text in an Image. When I search them I need to uncover the embedded text. I had this feature in a number of other Apps (eg: Reflect, Evernote, AmpleNote etc) and it was fantastic.
I am really starting to enjoy my overall Capacities experience. A feature that reads/extracts all of the text content from PDFs, Docs, Images etc would be the icing on the cake.
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Henri van der Merwe
The ONLY reason I have stuck with Evernote is because their OCR is excellent, and I have a ton of searchable images and articles uploaded...
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Brad Hawkins
This would be an awesome addition to Capacities.
I just started using it and uploaded a PDF and Capacities cannot find anything in the content.
The thing is that our minds often remember fractions of information. If we upload a PDF or Image or Document etc and later remember a key word and not necessarily the title of the PDF/Image/Doc, then it would be great if Capacities could surface that information from a key word search using OCR to find it amongst these files.
Thanks.
Luca Joos
Merged in a post:
Search text on images
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Dan Rangel
Feature to search text in images
Steffen Bleher
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Henri van der Merwe
Steffen Bleher Any ideas on timeline? Cannot migrate off Evernote before cracking the OCR nut!
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Alexander Sc
Yes OCR of PDFs and images and including them in the search would be great.
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Don Schulte
I wish I could take all my upvotes and put them here for this feature. I still hang onto Evernote for my handwritten notes that it successfully "OCR's" so that I can search across my scanned handwritten notes. BIG upvote!!
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Henri van der Merwe
Don Schulte Ditto ;-)
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Faustine Monthubert
I also posted a request for handwriting support here :
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jr Leo
Just to add to the twist : OCR with AI summary,
at least, if theres a rush or in cases of work and university part-timers, taking photos, uploading and then letting AI base OCR might be the another edge and win.
Although im still waiting for off line mode, in the mean time, if AI is what the founders are interested, then take it to the other spectrum and simply use AI for OCR scanned documents for quick - pre-reading summary
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Bekah Chapman
jr Leo +1 for this. I use Notability on my iPad and desperately need the function for handwritten notes with AI summary. Would make searching handwritten notes seamless.
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Hallaxy 💫
This would be really big for me - both migrating from Evernote and using a Remarkable on the side for drawing/ideating/notes
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