Used iPhoto to enhance some of the pictures that didn't help the OCR There are some names I couldn'tįind but taking another photo and dragging that in can fix that. Waiting a few minutes, I could search those photos for any name I felt like a cold war spy while taking the pictures,īut after syncing with their server and patiently What I did was just snap pictures of the typewritten pages and drag This has happened so often that I've thought of retypingĪll those pages so that I can search them, but that's a lot of work. So then we go paw through all those pages looking for "Joe" until "Oh, by the way, Joe said." and my wife responds "Which Joe?" and Management of this community) don't provide it electronically, so it's It's currently eight double-sided pages and they ("they" being the List of our neighbors phone numbers that comes out once in a while. What OCR needs? Oh, nothing really important. Pictures and that at least partially solved my OS X OCR needs. The very nice part is that it automatically does OCR on Into Evernote "notebooks", add tags if you like, and retrieve it laterīy searching. The basic idea is that you canĭrag and drop anything (web pages, cut and paste stuff, pictures, movies) Of beta, so I don't know whether I'll be keeping it.īut for the moment, this is neat. I also don't know what this is going to cost when it's out Get an account (there's a Windows version too), but there's no harm in
Later I got a notice of updated software and when I downloaded that,Įverything started working. The software and tried it I was told my account didn't exist. Was confusing: they never said that I WAS signed up, and when I downloaded One of the regulars here had mentioned Evernote on Twitter (thanks, Bruce) and I signed up for their Mac Beta. Seeing anything other than Omnipage but I don't need OCR badly enough to spend THAT kind of coin.
That way you have a backup copy ‘in the cloud’.I've been wanting OCR software for Mac OS X and I haven't been It is probably better to store your maps in iCloud or Dropbox etc.
The contents of the archive will be restored into a new folder - your existing maps are not overwritten.
You can recover all the maps within the archive in a single operation by sending the zip file itself back into iThoughts. To recover a map, unzip it on your desktop, locate the map and send it back into iThoughts. The archive file is simply a zip file containing a folder structure of. IMPORTANT: Maps stored in other cloud providers and maps stored outside of the iThoughts iCloud folder will not be included in the archive. Those apps will then take care of uploading the archive into the cloud - and most importantly - off your device. Typically you would use this to send the archive into your Dropbox app - or perhaps your Evernote app.
This will take all the maps stored locally on your device plus any maps stored in the iThoughts iCloud folder and zip them up into a single archive file then send that archive over into another app. In the menu under the 'gear' toolbar button is an option called 'Save Archive'. There is no 'special' place that iThoughts can save important information to guard against this. I've had reports in the past where kids have deleted the app by accident when playing on their parents iPad. If you delete the app then you will delete all the maps - permanently. Great if you have a device - not so great if the device is broken or stolen. You can't (AFAIK) get hold of an iCloud backup file itself to extract the content - you can only restore a device from the backup. Restoring from backup means restoring EVERYTHING - you can't simply restore a single app. Great if you want to restore your device to its current state, but not good for recovering deleted data from a few days ago. There is no formal backup history maintained - backups often overwrite each other. Not everything is - and there's no way to 'test' or 'inspect' the backup to see if it contains ALL your stuff. It's not obvious what is (or isn't) being backed up.
Never rely on iCloud or iTunes backups. Reasoning as follows: Off device in case your device is lost, broken or stolen and verifiable meaning that you can look at the backed up information and be confident that it's all there and in a format that you can read. Apologies in advance for the preachy tone of this article.īackup is boring and everyone would rather not have to think about it - but it is important and it does require a level of effort - so it's both boring and work :-(įor a backup to be effective it must be 'off device' and it must be 'verifiable'.