[delichon]

I'm an Evernote refugee struggling with Joplin and Obsidian this morning. I've got thousands of PDF notes going back decades, and the ability to search on their OCR has kept me on Evernote for years. But the latest Joplin includes OCR out of the box, and Obsidian has the Omnisearch/Text Extractor plugins to add it.

Both of those use Tesseract to do OCR locally. I've got it working on Joplin fairly well. But it hardly works at all on Obsidian. That's unfortunate because Obsidian seems to be a much more user friendly and responsive app over all. Since I need the OCR search capability so badly though, I'm about to settle for Joplin. That's not a terrible fate, but the grass seems greener on the Obsidian side.

I wish I could replace Tesseract with some industrial strength OCR though.

[Zetobal]

That's not really what these tools are made for. Look into zotero or devontjink and use the note taking app for notes.

[delichon]

Thanks for the leads, but I need it on Linux and Android. You appear to be right about this use case being a stretch for Joplin/Obsidian.

[tomrod]

Zotero for the win then.

[sundarurfriend]

How do you work with a Zotero collection on Android?

[s1291]

https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/110371/available-for-be...

[alchemist1e9]

Could recoll help?

https://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/pages/index-recoll.htm...

[pqs]

Evernote works well now. It has improved.