EverNote is a free alternative to Microsoft OneNote 2007 that allows you create and save notes of various types: typed text, snapshots, web clips, sketches, images, handwriting, and digital ink and make them searchable. Notes are time-stamped and searchable by date and content.

The unique feature of EverNote is that whether you have captured images with your mobile phone camera or saved pictures from the web, if the images contain printed or handwritten text, then the program can make them searchable using the Advanced Image Recognition (AIR).

AIR can recognize the following types of text from images:

+ Printed text
+ Handwritten text (cursive and block letters)
+ Various fonts and styles
+ Objects with a mix of printed and handwritten text


EverNote: Recognize & Save Printed/Handwritten Text from Images

You can capture the following types of information using your mobile phone camera and synchronize it to the EverNotes application on the desktop via USB or Bluetooth.

- Whiteboards full of handwritten notes
- Business cards
- Notes written on paper
- Product tags
- Posters and billboards
- Store awnings

Additionally, if you use a Tablet PC, pen tablet, or PDA, EverNote can extract text from handwritten notes using handwriting recognition and shape correction.

EverNote’s interface resembles an endless roll of paper divided into individual sheets, one for each day of notes. At the beginning of each sheet is the date and time the page was created. You can type inside each note, use EverNote’s basic drawing tools to create sketches, drag and drop text and images from a browser, insert passages from documents, extract text associated with images and so on.

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