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How is OneNote's OCR? I also use Evernote and it does a great job of recognizing and indexing text on photos of whiteboards.

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I've heard that it's good, but I never tried it myself. I think OneNote is free now, so I'm pretty sure you could try it without having to buy anything.

I just created two image files. One is a handwritten list of provinces in Canada and the other is a screenshot of some text in an editor. I uploaded the files to OneNote and Evernote. Both programs indexed the screenshot perfectly but only Evernote can find text in the handwritten note.

You said you chose something lighter weight. What did you end up going with? I've used Evernote for years but am unhappy with the direction the program has gone. The new CEO seems to be refocusing on the core purpose (capturing and remembering) and so I'm contemplating sticking around for a bit.

Ah, that's an awfully nice search capability. I posted elsewhere in this thread that I use SimpleNote. It's not perfect, but >95% of my note-taking needs were text-only and SimpleNote was less hassle than Evernote.

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