![]() ![]() Typically, I write my posts in Markdown using Ulysses - I find its minimalist interface combined with its live Markdown preview to be very useful when adding links or formatting to a post. Here's how it went: Manual Markdown's Mediocrity To accomplish this challenge, I attempted to write and publish my recent review of the Microsoft Universal Foldable Keyboard entirely using Apple Notes. the Apple Notes challenge seemed more interesting to me, I decided to only tackle that challenge for the purposes of this article. I do not have very many smart home devices, and B. On episode two of Adapt, both Ryan and Federico had a challenge that they each had to report back on - Ryan had to use a third-party HomeKit app to control his smart home devices, and Federico had to write and publish an article entirely using Apple Notes. I’ve decided (partially from getting so behind on the podcast) that I’ll try to accomplish the ones I find are the most useful as learning tools for the average iPad user (especially students). You might say I’ve adapted it to my needs.Įditor’s Note: You caught me - I’m skipping some of the Adapt Challenges. Working primarily on an iPad sometimes requires you to use the wrong app in an unexpected way to get something done - GoodNotes will probably be my go-to app from now on for using OCR on large PDF documents (while remaining my favorite note-taking app as well!), even though that isn’t the main purpose of the app. Adapt #5 Challenge, Evaluated:Īlthough I didn’t adhere to Federico’s requirement of finding two OCR apps, I think I accomplished the spirit of this challenge by finding a new use for an app I already use daily. Highlighting and adding strikethrough to OCR’d text, full PDF export support, and support for 17 languages makes GoodNotes an excellent OCR app. Lastly, GoodNotes seemingly allows you to export an editable version of this PDF (optionally including your annotation if needed), which in theory means that you can revise the PDF document in a program like Adobe Acrobat or the like (though I have not been able to test this). In addition, GoodNotes supports character recognition in 17 languages, expanding access to this feature across the globe. Highlighting OCR’d text not only allows you to easily copy and paste snippets from the PDF, but GoodNotes allows you to highlight or strikeout the OCR’d text as well. More Than Just PDF Searchīeyond the already-useful feature of creating searchable PDFs, GoodNotes has some extra tools to give you even more flexibility when working with OCR’d documents. Perhaps more impressive is that GoodNotes apparently does all of this magic using Apple’s native Vision and Natural Language Parsing tools, because I ran a test while in Airplane Mode and got the exact same speedy results. Even with such a large document, going from import to searching keywords took under five minutes using GoodNotes’ built-in OCR. GoodNotes was able to index all 974 pages of the Affordable Care Act using OCR in under two minutes.įor my testing, I wanted to go a little bigger than Ryan’s ~400 page PDF - I figured more than doubling the page count with a copy of the 974-page Affordable Care Act would do the trick. However, if you combine this OCR search with GoodNotes’ support for both scanning and uploading PDFs you can easily turn large documents into searchable PDFs using OCR. It works blazingly quickly, and I use it often to find specific details in my handwritten meeting notes or in annotations on lecture slides. GoodNotes has long had a search feature in its app that allows you to quickly find text in individual notebooks (and now across all notebooks) via OCR. But did you know that GoodNotes can make a 900+ page PDF searchable in mere minutes with OCR? If you haven’t heard of GoodNotes, suffice it to say that it is perhaps the best note-taking app available on iOS (Notability is it’s equal - aesthetic preference is often the only tie-breaker) - custom templates, fluid handwriting, and extensive features like automatic shape drawing set it apart from nearly all its competition. I also didn’t want to spend any money on this challenge, but unlike Ryan I remembered that I already paid for an app that supports PDF search using OCR: GoodNotes. In doing so, he found two scanner apps that allowed him to complete the challenge by way of 30-day free trials. In the episode, Ryan set himself a rule: He didn’t want to spend any money on this challenge. ![]() OCR is a really handy tool for reviewing long manuscripts that are often in PDF form - I use OCR in one form or another quite often, and it has saved me a hefty amount of time. On Episode #5 of Adapt, Federico challenged Ryan to find two apps capable of searching very large PDFs using Optical Character Recognition (OCR for short). ![]()
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