On Tue, 28 Mar 2017 20:25:58 +0100, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
I can't help thinking OneNote has a lot of emperor's new clothes about
it, but I'm obviously not "getting" it.


I found a use for it, and it actually does a good job.

I've embarked on scanning some of my paperbacks that are literally
falling apart from repeated readings. Never one to do things by
halves, I am not saving scanned images, but rather OCRing them and
HTMLizing them, eventually converting to an e-reader format.

As it happens, I don't have an OCR application. So I googled, and
found someone's article explaining how to use OneNote OCR! Basically,
it scans every picture you paste into it for text, and you can right-
click any picture and select "Copy Text from Picture" to get the text
into the clipboard.

It does a decent enough job, though it sometimes confuses rn with m.
It even handles multiple columns gracefully, scanning column 1 and
then column 2 automatically.

Its OCR is buried in that right-click menu; I still have no idea what
OneNote is supposed to be used for. (And little interest, truth be
told.)

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