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Posted by Slartibartfarst
Sep 16, 2013 at 01:00 PM
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Posted by MadaboutDana
Sep 16, 2013 at 02:46 PM
I do love OneNote, but have become somewhat chary of its OCR because of the linguistic limitations. Just try loading it up with lots of documents in “foreign” (in my case mainly French and German) and you’ll soon encounter the limits of its OCRing abilities! You have to specify each language individually, and even then it doesn’t always retain the per-note setting - especially if you’re mixing e.g. German text with e.g. English annotation. I’m not sure how Evernote copes with this - anybody any experience (Alexander?)?
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Sep 17, 2013 at 07:35 PM
MadaboutDana wrote:
>You have to specify
>each language individually, and even then it doesn’t always retain the
>per-note setting - especially if you’re mixing e.g. German text with
>e.g. English annotation. I’m not sure how Evernote copes with this -
>anybody any experience (Alexander?)?
Well, my working languages are English and Greek, the latter not being supported by Evernote yet (I’m not holding my breath), so I haven’t really tried the language mixing in practice. That said, I suspect that Evernote has the advantage of doing its OCR in the cloud, which may provide it with a much larger database to support its ‘comprehension’.
Posted by Slartibartfarst
Sep 23, 2013 at 03:12 PM
MadaboutDana wrote:
I do love OneNote, but have become somewhat chary of its OCR because of
>the linguistic limitations. Just try loading it up with lots of
>documents in “foreign” (in my case mainly French and German) and you’ll
>soon encounter the limits of its OCRing abilities! You have to specify
>each language individually, and even then it doesn’t always retain the
>per-note setting - especially if you’re mixing e.g. German text with
>e.g. English annotation. I’m not sure how Evernote copes with this -
>anybody any experience (Alexander?)?
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I coincidentally came across an apparent fix covering OneNote’s OCR issues with non-English languages. Cold well be worth a look if it gets it all running tickety-boo for you. Read the whole thing here: http://www.omeratay.com/onetastic/?i=office-365-ocr-proofing-tools
Posted by MadaboutDana
Sep 23, 2013 at 06:18 PM
Splendid fellow! It’ll be great if it works. I’ll let you know…