Does devonthink "OCR"/index word files? just saw paperless-ngx can do this, very cool :)

DEVONthink
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hi all

a friend in academia showed me this today

https://docs.paperless-ngx.com/

seems similar to devonthink to some extent but what was cool is that it seems to have a plug-in to “OCR”/index word files which seems super cool to me

can devonthink do that as well?

thx

Z

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The text of Word documents is indexed but their images are not OCRed.

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ahh fantastic, didn’t know it existed. so if a word documents has “aerosol optical depth” in it it will appear in the devonthink search when looking for that terms across my databases?

thx!

Z

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It should.

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Regarding the service your friend mentioned, what do they do when their network is down? :thinking:

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thx @BLUEFROG , I think its run locally (its a FLOSS local server if I understand)

Z

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That would definitely be preferable :smiley: