First, set up OCR. Go into Settings > OCR and enable Make scans searchable, choose a language if needed, and adjust further options to suit your situation.
Now go into a database, tap the Add button (+) and choose Scan. The first time you do a scan, you’ll be prompted to allow use of the camera. Once the permission is granted, position the mobile device over a document. You’ll see a blue, dynamic polygon, moving as it tries to detect page edges. Once it determines where it thinks the page is, it will automatically capture the page and a thumbnail of the captured page appears at the lower left. To switch to manual capture instead, tap the Shutter button.
If one scan is all you need, tap the checkmark button and the document will be saved in the database, and OCR will make it searchable. If you are scanning a multi-page document, change the page and continue the process until finished. Then tap the checkmark button to save the scans into one document.
To quickly access the scanner from your home screen, long-press DEVONthink To Go’s application icon and choose New Scan. The app will open and you can follow the process described above.
Thank you very helpful reminder as I don’t always think to scan directly to DTTG even though most things end up there.
One question, however. My scans seem to always come out in color, and most of the time I am scanning text and would prefer they be just black-and-white. Is there some way to accomplish this?
Thank you Eric, for reminding me of this function. I have just checked the OCR settings and can see that English, German, and French are preset languages.
I work with German, English, Swedish, and Danish, so I would prefer to replace French. However, this does not seem to be possible. Is that correct, or is there a way to change it?
Also, what happens with OCR if the language of a scanned document is not included among the four active languages?
Best regards,
Per
Currently the OCR will only use the enabled languages to OCR a document. If a document contains characters of a language that is not enabled there may be some recognition errors. For European languages this may mean some accented characters such as ö are be recognised as o.
Thank you for your answer. I assume there are some technical limitations that make it necessary to select only four languages?
But why are three languages mandatory? I do not need French—I neither speak nor read it, and I will never scan a French text. I would therefore like to replace French with a Scandinavian language. Will that be possible in the future?
There aren’t three mandatory languages. Mandatory means it’s required. There are three default languages and at this time, only one is required. There is nothing stopping you from enabling Swedish and Danish.
