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by ocrcustomserver 2755 days ago
Yeah, Evernote's OCR engine will generate possible candidates for every given word and will sort them internally by confidence score.

Screenshot: https://s24953.pcdn.co/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/longh...

Since it's not aimed for transcription (user doesn't know what he's looking for) but for retrieval (user knows what he's looking for), it can get away with mistakes.

References:

https://evernote.com/blog/how-evernotes-image-recognition-wo...

https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/articles/208314518-How-Ev...

https://evernote.com/blog/evernote-indexing-system/