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Posted by WSP
Dec 13, 2018 at 03:13 AM

I agree that this is all rather mysterious. What I offered here was an accurate description of my own experience, but I have no idea why others are getting different results. For what it’s worth, I’m using RightNote Professional 4.9.0 on a Surface Pro 4 (Windows 10). Could the “professional” category be the explanation?

I’m baffled too why there is no mention of this in RightNote’s documentation. I simply stumbled upon it.

I may write to Rael to ask him about it.

Posted by WSP
Dec 13, 2018 at 11:46 PM

Rael tells me that RightNote definitely does not OCR texts in images. That sent me back to RN to do a series of experiments, and I think I can now explain how this fluke happened. Some of the images I was popping into RN came from a OneNote notebook, and I believe that ON was translating the images into text (in the background) before I copied them. This did not happen when I used images from the Web or other sources.

So that solves this little mystery.

Posted by WSP
Dec 20, 2018 at 02:11 AM

Just a small postscript to this (slightly silly) discussion

I wonder how many (Windows) note-taking programs are actually capable of doing OCR of textual images? The only ones I’m familiar with are Evernote, OneNote, and Google Keep. Are there others?

I ask because I have a lot of genealogical notes scattered around in various apps, and I would like, if possible, to consolidate them. Since a good number of the notes consist of pasted newspaper clippings, OCR would be extremely desirable.

Posted by Donovan
Dec 20, 2018 at 05:24 AM

WSP wrote:
Just a small postscript to this (slightly silly) discussion
> >I wonder how many (Windows) note-taking programs are actually capable of
>doing OCR of textual images? The only ones I’m familiar with are
>Evernote, OneNote, and Google Keep. Are there others?
> >I ask because I have a lot of genealogical notes scattered around in
>various apps, and I would like, if possible, to consolidate them. Since
>a good number of the notes consist of pasted newspaper clippings, OCR
>would be extremely desirable.

I dislike Google. For a lot of reasons. However, I have yet to find a better free solution than its auto-OCR of all images on Google Drive. If you have an image with any writing at all—it is fully searchable on GD. Just right click on the image and select Open In Google Docs and you’ll find the text from the image ready to edit. There’s OCR and then there’s useful and accurate OCR. It’s amazingly accurate and so simple that I don’t mind leaving the tool I want to import text to and going to Google Drive—it literally takes a minute or less. Free.

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