

The only trick is that, after you have taken or imported the image, you need to give OneNote a chance to translate the image into text. It is very easy, and relatively quick to do this in OneNote (which is a free app in the App Store). This will save you having to re-type that text, which can be an enormous time saving if you have a lengthy hard copy document to get into digital form.

Well, if I take an image in OneNote, or import an existing image into OneNote, and if that image has any writing on it (for example, an image of a hard-copy document that needs to be typed up), OneNote will allow you to 'copy the text' from that image and paste it somewhere else! Microsoft has just introduced an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) capability to its OneNote app and product.

I just prefer Evernote!īut, after reading an article today, I have found a good reason why I will occasionally now be using OneNote - especially on my iPhone and iPad. Now, I am a dedicated Evernote user so don't use the Microsoft equivalent, which is called OneNote.ĭon't get me wrong - OneNote is an excellent product, and does much the same thing as Evernote.
