NiceRecipes in Evernote!
March 22, 2008 by niceties
As an avid Evernote user, imagine how surprised I was to find an image from my blog used in the Evernote website section on the application of this information management software for cooks and foodies! One of my photographs of grandma’s recipe notebook was used to illustrate how the advanced features in Evernote can recognise handwriting in images and thus help one to manage non-textual files too.
Since Evernote clipped a page from me, here’s a screenshot of their page featuring my page!
Wow, what a great coincidence. Your image was the best I found for showcasing this great Evernote use case.
Do you use Evernote for this type of thing?
Andrew
Evernote
Hi Andrew,
What a coincidence indeed!
Actually, I have only been using the older free version of Evernote without the character-recognition feature. Also I stopped using for a while when I realised that I was running very low on RAM, and have only recently added an extra 1GB of RAM.
But when I saw the Evernote page featuring my grandmother’s recipes, I suddenly realised why it might be really wonderful to have to feature (and also to search the tons of images of digitised text that I have collected).
Last night I downloaded the new version of Evernote and will try it out. The programme is now creating the index. Am very excited about the possibilities, and hope it all works out well on my system!
My computer has finally finished indexing all of my grandmother’s handwritten recipes in Evernote. The handwritten text recognition feature is amazing! It can even recognise words on a diagonal.
Granted it isn’t 100% perfect but it’s better than nothing and it tends to find more possible instances rather than less, I think, which means that alongside the many inaccurate search results are also a large number of correct ones.
My life has been revolutionised :)!