Personally, I am using an iOS app called 'Scanbot' that is a pretty good scanner but it also works on existing images.

and have it both searchable and ready to be copied. The phone is one tool I always have on me, and there's very often a reason to take a quick photo of some text / page / advertisement / address / etc. There's so many uses for this feature, I am honestly surprised you even ask why would someone want this. The ability to OCR a photo is indeed much needed, I'd say the users gave up on this thread because it was clearly going nowhere. If you explain why this is important to you - what use case you have in mind, it may help others (including Evernote developers) see that this is a feature they've been lacking. The Feature Request forum here allows you to set up a votable request for items like this - if you collect enough positive votes from other users, Evernote might revisit the thought. Since the last on topic comment was more than a year ago, 'much needed' may be a slight exaggeration. See MySpace, Yahoo, AOL, Blockbuster, Kodak, Barnes&Nobles, etc. Good Luck with not changing and only sticking to what you do best. I am going to actually try the google docs method but if that is too cumbersome i will be installing Onenote. You want us to use your time saving, cant live without tool, but you want us to hand write notes, then turn around and hand type those notes into the PC? Sure we can use another app but why wouldn't you want to keep the users in house and provide that feature? See OneNote.Ģ) Don't force your users to have to pull double duty.

People are downsizing the amount of apps they have and apps that can do more than 1 thing even if it isn't as good as a competitor, are being chosen over others. I want to take hand written notes, take a picture with evernote, come back later, OCR > Text and save it as a Word Document or editable PDF, or Excel, or Google Docs.Ģ Things that are important to users that Evernote should really look at:ġ) Make a swiss army knife tool, don't just make a text searchable app but no way to extract the text from the picture. Ultimately that is what I am trying to do. This feature is evernote saying here, you can do all it in our App and we don't mind sharing our hard work with other applications. I love everything else evernote does but this is a big deal and it is closely related to the other features evernote provides. To my surprise, it is still not available! I just installed Evernote again thinking that this feature was added since 2013, when i stopped using it.

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