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Posted by Pierre Paul Landry
Oct 23, 2012 at 07:45 PM
FWIW, I’m working on integrating InfoQube with EN. So information in IQ will be available to EN (and the EN mobile clients) and vice-versa. This means that you’ll have an independant (i.e. non Evernote Corp related) client. This should increase your confort level (at least I hope !)
Pierre
IQ Designer
Posted by Vincek
Oct 23, 2012 at 07:57 PM
Bill, I have wrestled with the same issue and will offer a few perspectives.
First, IMHO, Evernote is open technology. That is their stated intent—to make the data yours and to provide portability on deman. You can export notes into separate .html files, and I have found that this is universal enough.
Second, IMHO Evernote being a growing, well funded company provides stability, not risk. I would worry far more about being reliant upon many of the programs discussed in this forum that are created by individual developers. If the developer is hit by a bus, then what?
Third, I agree with all of Hugh’s points about scanning in general and the Fujitsu Scansnap S1500 (I use the Windows version) in particular. The scanner is fairly gentle…doubt it would hurt your papers. Integration with Evernote is very good—you can automatically create an Evernote note AND download a backup .jpg or .pdf to your hard drive. It is pricey, but you get a copy of Adobe Acrobat thrown in… I have not regretted the buy a bit and it has become an integral part of my workflow.
Finally, I have done some archiving using Evernote and my Android smartphone. I use the camera built into the phone. The Evernote app has a function that automatically downloads a photo into the Evernote database and performs an OCR. Simple.
Vince
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Oct 23, 2012 at 08:08 PM
Pierre Paul Landry wrote:
>FWIW, I’m working on integrating InfoQube with EN. So information in IQ will be
>available to EN (and the EN mobile clients) and vice-versa. This means that you’ll
>have an independant (i.e. non Evernote Corp related) client. This should increase
>your confort level (at least I hope !)
This is great news. Like Outlook, I believe that Evernote has great potential as a platform with an ecosystem of more specialised applications around it.
Will this integration include access to the OCR’d texts that EN uses for indexing/searching? Usesr don’t have access to that text per se, but I was wondering whether developers can ‘grab’ this through the API and make it available.
Posted by Pierre Paul Landry
Oct 23, 2012 at 08:13 PM
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>Will this integration include access to the OCR’d texts that EN uses for indexing/searching?
Yes it does. :-)
http://discussion.evernote.com/topic/21286-use-evernote-api-to-get-ocr-results/
Posted by WSP
Oct 23, 2012 at 08:18 PM
This is extremely interesting and useful technical information. Thanks.
Bill