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The one feature I loved in Evernote (when I was using it as a paid customer a few years ago) was that I could upload a pdf and it would be indexed for search. I ended up using Evernote as an extensive pdf library with very rapid search of all my pdfs. Does notesnook offer anything like that?

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> Does notesnook offer anything like that?

No, and the main deterrent for this is our commitment to keeping everything E2E and client-side. Something like Tessaract or Paddle might work for OCR but I haven't looked too deeply into it.

I have been using ocrmypdf to do it on my own computer, but creating a searchable index of all my pdfs is either very time-consuming or requires me to pay for Adobe Acrobat Pro, neither of which has been very appealing. I've been trying to find a way to upload pdfs that already have OCR embedded (or as a separate text file) and have the OCR text indexed for search across all of my pdf collection.

Thanks for responding to my question. I wish you success in your efforts.

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