Storing images with text notes in the database?

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Just discovered this program and think its great, I’ve been looking for a knowledge management type system for quite a while without luck, but I’m still determining whether DEVONTHink can meet my needs.

Anyway, I’m still trying to determine how best to use DEVONThink to organise all my texts&images. So my question is, how can I easily attach a note (that is searchable) to an image that I have imported into the database? Eg If I have created a group of specific car images and want to add a text note to each image so that I may search it at a later date.

At the moment you can achieve this with the system only by creating a new group for each image and text note. The only problem I have, is that the number of groups in the system becomes huge as each image requires its own group.

The other reason I require this functionaliy is to store the text of articles I have scanned and used OCR software to convert to text so that I may search and find something I am looking for. Eg I have scanned many news articles that I want to keep in my system and stored them as images, I have also used OCR software to store the text of these articles. I would like to store these two files together in the DEVONThink database so that I can search the text and find the original image if needed.

Do you have any suggestions?

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Up to now, you can only enter a comment into the Inpector palette. Another way would be to create a rich text content, drag or paste the image into it like you would do when placing an image into a Word or Xpress document, and then add the text. DEVONthink is capable of storing both, simple RTF and RTFD (RTF text with attached files such as images).

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Thanks for the suggestion. :slight_smile:

I’ve decided to use another similiar method. I’m going to create a PDF that contains an image and some text. The image can be the original scanned article with the text being the OCR conversion. This way I have a seperate document of my article and something that can be imported into the DT system.

I’ve also heard Omnipage Pro X is very good for creating these types of documents as it natively supports PDF creation.

Also, I’ve decided to buy DT as it meets my needs. Thanks