OCR does it really work?

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I just started using Joplin. The OCR feature does not work. I tried to upload photos w/ clear text shown, screenshots from the internet, etc, and search for the content but nothing happens. Am I doing something wrong?

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OCR seems to work for me in Joplin 2.14.22 (Linux/Ubuntu 24.04). I'm testing with this PNG file and searching for "pre-releases".

Here are a few things that could be happening:

  • It can take some time for OCR to process all resources.
  • OCR needs to be manually enabled in settings > general > "Enable optical character recognition (OCR)".
  • Not all image formats are supported. For example, Joplin should OCR PNGs, JPEGs, and PDFs, but not GIFs or SVGs.
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Joplin has OCR capabilities? Is it only for the desktop version?

OCR indexing and search was one of the best Evernote features before it all went to h*ll.

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I have only jpg and png atachments but ocr doesn't work. I've tried press "Clear Cache and re-downloaded language" button. Joplin was restarted but after that nothing happens.OCR is not working.

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It depends on your images too. If no text can be recognised, then no ocr data will be available. For further support anyway we'd need to see the logs.

Edit: closing as it's not a feature request. Please open a support ticket and provide the needed information