Searchable PDFs

[dbrgn]

The killer feature of Evernote for me is the ability to simply upload searchable PDF documents and other scans to the system, as an archiving solution.

There are two parts to this:

• Implement searching inside attached PDF documents
• OCR documents that aren't already searchable

Also:

• Very simple upload via API into an inbox, where it can be sorted and tagged later on

I doubt printers like the Brother MFC series will allow "upload to arbitrary service" anytime like they do for Evernote, but at least then I'd be able to run a script that automatically uploads scanned documents to Paperwork :)

Is something like that planned anytime soon? That would make Paperwork the first usable but simple open source document archiving solution that I know of.

[KerimG]

This is definitely something that would interest me, too. Maybe one could utilize https://github.com/thiagoalessio/tesseract-ocr-for-php , which is a PHP wrapper for Google's OCR engine.

I'll try to look into it.

[itisNathaniel]

That sounds awesome, thanks!

[mrusme]

This was reported for v1, but is relevant for v2 as well. Taking this on the v2 roadmap.

[itisNathaniel]

This was reported for v1, but is relevant for v2 as well. Taking this on the v2 roadmap.

Sounds good, super interested to see were V2 goes, and hope to get involved! @mrusme