Reviewing some of the discussions on this forum over the past 3 years or so there have been a couple of attempts to introduce OCR to Joplin. Now that I am seriously making use of the app I would like to have an OCR capability and would appreciate the current best way to implement this. I have two s…

Returning from a discussion here OCR for existing Joplin notes here are my "instructions" for how to achieve this in Windows. These instructions are for Python 3.8 running in Anaconda 1.10.0 in Windows At your Anaconda prompt install rest-uploader, ocr_joplin_notes and pytesseract pip install re…

please tell me how to turn on OCR function? i have installed today, checked the doc here: Optical Character Recognition (OCR) | Joplin and still can't figure out where the switch is - help? thanks!

Go to the settings in a Joplin 2.14 version : [grafik]

i downloaded the latest version, it is 2.13 ?? is this a beta or something? it was not mentioned in the docs. thanks.

@kish [image] GSoC 2024 live blog Please guide me about how to proceed with the OCR Plugin idea, read this topic and read the updated GSoC 2024 live blog

In the proposed idea mentioned in the ideas-2024.md, was it proposed in Node.js or javascript? Here they have performed OCR using python. And that's complicated for an average person to achieve. This is achievable in JS.

OCR for existing Joplin Notes: Feb '21 Shall I start with proposing this idea in the features section?

[image] kish: Shall I start with proposing this idea in the features section? why that? haven't you read yet: [image] bradwww: please tell me how to turn on OCR function? i have installed today, checked the doc here: Optical Character Recognition (OCR) | Joplin and still can't figure o…

Oh yeah. Missed that, apologies. Thanks for taking your time

Here are some parts of the Joplin codebase that might be helpful to look at: joplin/packages/lib/services/ocr at dev · laurent22/joplin · GitHub The lines in NoteEditor.tsx responsible for showing resource search results.

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read this topic and read the updated GSoC 2024 live blog

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