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How well does your scanner do in recognizing text? Is your archive searchable?

I've been stuffing things into Evernote for around a decade now but there recent changes to the Windows client means I'm probably done with that service. One thing that I love is how they find text in just about anything you upload and so the document can be found via search.

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I have a scansnap and it's pretty much changed my life. The OCR is pretty good, and easy enough to do that my wife or kids can do it. Anything scanned automatically gets OCR'ed and placed in a family dropbox folder.

Everything is OCR'ed so I can search for it if I need something, and since everything is one folder, the next time I'm on a plane or at an airport or whatever, I just turn on a movie and spend time categorizing the files in the folder.

I'm also underwhelmed with the new Evernote clients. (IMO it's gotten worse on Android, too.) But I like Onenote even less. What are you looking at moving to?

I haven't found anything I like yet. Everything seems to be either web based or Electron.

There are some interesting macOS programs out there (DevonThink for one) but I'm not sure I want to buy a Mac just for that.

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