Once my fully OCR’d pdf document was in DTP, I would review the title, add any tags and move it to the appropriate database. I created a Services > Folder Action calling FineReader by ABBYY to convert the doc to PDF and save the output to another folder called Fish Tank2.Īnother folder action watches Fish Tank2 and takes any file, adds it to DTP and then deletes it. I spent a whole Saturday testing this out. I called it Fish Tank1…I have to have some fun. I created one folder on my desktop to receive my EN PDFs. I’m sure there is a way to do this as a single script but I needed to do this in bulk for many EN notes. There is no need to run ‘convert to searchable PDF’ in DTP. Notes come in to DTP as PDF+Text AND the text in images are captured /searchable as well. This had the same result as printed to PDF AND you lost the title of the note and any tags as well.ĮN Note printed to PDF and OCR’d with FineReader Notes come in to DTP as PDF+Text but only for the text you actually typed into the note, nothing in images is searchable…web clipper captures anyone?Įven running Searchable PDF did not capture text in images with any degree of accuracy. Anything typed into your evernote note will come up in a search but nothing else.ĮN Note printed to PDF and dragged into DTP The notes come into DTP as formated text and not available to convert to searchable PDF. Imported EN notebooks directly into Devonthink Pro I tried several ways to get the data out and here is my results. The reason I had to research these OCR tools was because the notes coming out of Evernote had only half of the OCR text. I tried several others and have come to the conclusion that FineReader by ABBYY had the best results. I found it was outstanding with documents but hit or miss on images. Google has pretty good OCR but has a 2Mb file limit, PDFPen has a great product. One of the big benefits of Evernote was its OCR of attachment contents. It was no small task getting my Evernote contents into Devonthink and still have it fully searchable.

So here is my journey migrating my content to Devonthink.

I finally decided to move from Evernote to Devonthink because security of my content in the cloud was too risky for me…and the annual price keeps going up.

Export evernote to text