Has a quick play with this feature while on holiday - used my phone camera to capture the text on a plaque beside a statue, then recognised it in EN and pushed the resulting text into Google Translate to get the information in English. Must experiment with how it deals with handwritten text on family history documents - wills, registers, military records, etc to help read the content of such old documents.
I'm in process of storing lots of things in boxes, which I've done before by taking photos of the items involved - books, games etc - into one note per box; and then laboriously typing the descriptions into the same note so they're available to search. (I know from experience that in 3 months time when someone wants that copy of an Iain M Banks book I'll never know which box to find it in without lots of clues and links...)
When audio transcription came in I anticipated much faster box filling - taking pictures would still be required, but I could record the descriptions where necessary. And they could be longer and more useful descriptions because no typing was involved!
Now - who cares? Just take the pictures and let them speak for themselves (as you might say). Evernote just decluttered decluttering... :)
I was quite impressed when I threw the ol' elephant a scanned page from my journal, scribbles I barely can decipher myself some times – the image transcription had no problem at all!
A problem I have though, with the image as well as the audio transcription, is how to exit/escape the quote block to add my own new text in the note after the transcribed/quoted text…
The only way I found is to ”un-quote” the entire transcribed text to be able to add new ”normal” text, and later ”re-quote” the transcribed text.
I am also finding the interface/routine to ”un-quote” text a bit un-intuitive; using the + button and choosing ”Quote”, as if I wanted to add a quote, removes the quote indentation.
It would feel more intuitive if quote was found among the other formatting choices (eg in-/outdent, strikethrough etc).
Have anyone found another way to ”escape”/exit a quote block?
I wonder how it will do to be a sort of 'Readwise' for hand annotated notes on a dead tree book, from the Welsh tourist info board, it will depend on cropping each highlight and annotation as a single input.
I'll try it later in the week... or more like sometime next month... given the date. ; )))))
Let me know how you get on. I took acting classes as very, very long time ago and have some plays with annotations in the margins. I'm going to try and dig them out and see how they scan.
Has a quick play with this feature while on holiday - used my phone camera to capture the text on a plaque beside a statue, then recognised it in EN and pushed the resulting text into Google Translate to get the information in English. Must experiment with how it deals with handwritten text on family history documents - wills, registers, military records, etc to help read the content of such old documents.
That's a great use case. Will be very handy translating signs when travelling.
I've found it pretty good with handwriting. Let me know how you get on.
Looks quite promising. Seems I'll need to retrain myself to stop saving documents from Scannable as a PDF and instead save as an image.
Same! I'm rethinking how I get info into EN.
I'm in process of storing lots of things in boxes, which I've done before by taking photos of the items involved - books, games etc - into one note per box; and then laboriously typing the descriptions into the same note so they're available to search. (I know from experience that in 3 months time when someone wants that copy of an Iain M Banks book I'll never know which box to find it in without lots of clues and links...)
When audio transcription came in I anticipated much faster box filling - taking pictures would still be required, but I could record the descriptions where necessary. And they could be longer and more useful descriptions because no typing was involved!
Now - who cares? Just take the pictures and let them speak for themselves (as you might say). Evernote just decluttered decluttering... :)
It great. I've heard folk using this for so many different things. Cataloging boxes is a great idea. I may head into the loft over the weekend!
I was quite impressed when I threw the ol' elephant a scanned page from my journal, scribbles I barely can decipher myself some times – the image transcription had no problem at all!
A problem I have though, with the image as well as the audio transcription, is how to exit/escape the quote block to add my own new text in the note after the transcribed/quoted text…
The only way I found is to ”un-quote” the entire transcribed text to be able to add new ”normal” text, and later ”re-quote” the transcribed text.
I am also finding the interface/routine to ”un-quote” text a bit un-intuitive; using the + button and choosing ”Quote”, as if I wanted to add a quote, removes the quote indentation.
It would feel more intuitive if quote was found among the other formatting choices (eg in-/outdent, strikethrough etc).
Have anyone found another way to ”escape”/exit a quote block?
Yes its a pain. Easy to get stuck inside the quote. Its been mentioned a few times so hopefully a fix will come.
I use CTRL+SHIFT+- to insert a divider and it gets you out of the never-ending quote... then backspace to delete the divider.
A good step up on the OCRing...
I wonder how it will do to be a sort of 'Readwise' for hand annotated notes on a dead tree book, from the Welsh tourist info board, it will depend on cropping each highlight and annotation as a single input.
I'll try it later in the week... or more like sometime next month... given the date. ; )))))
Let me know how you get on. I took acting classes as very, very long time ago and have some plays with annotations in the margins. I'm going to try and dig them out and see how they scan.