I was an Evernote follower for a while when I decided this week to give a shot to OneNote following refusal from my company to support Evernote.
At first, Onenote seems a good alternative but there are a few irritants that I'm trying to overcome.
The biggest of all for now is that I can't figure out the real mechanism of OCR in OneNote. Since the OCR engine of Evernote resides on their server, it's rather simple: any picture with text you drop there gets OCR'd in seconds.
But it looks like with OneNote everything happens on the client machines and then sync'd to SkyDrive.
When I use the desktop application, it looks fine. If I insert a picture in a Notebook, it gets instantly OCR'd and become searchable.
But when I use the IOS client app, it's not automatic. All receipts(as an example) I capture in the apps(Iphone or Ipad) and upload to OneNote don't get OCR'd unless I go on the PC client, right click on image and forces it.
I feel Like you are going to answer me that I got it all right and that it's the IOS apps that don't OCR and you cannot do anything about it BUT I think there is definitely an integration point that is missing:
If there could we an additional OCR run when notes are transferred between sections, all bases would be covered.
Because, whether the source section(likely a Quicknote one) would have originated from windows app or others like Ios, everything would end up being automatically OCR'd, this way.
Unless, I missed something, which I would prefer, of course!!!
Thank you!!!