If I’ve scanned a page of handwritten notes, I may want some of the text to be searchable. But since I cannot recognize the text with with Optical Character Recognition (OCR) function, I need to transcribe any part of the text I want to be able to search. But, I wonder where to write it?
Should I write it as a separate annotation file? Transcribed text plays a different role from my usual annotations; it’s not my notes on a file, but rather the contents of the file itself.
I could write it into the Annotations field in the Annotations & Reminders Inspector. But is that the best place?
There’s actually no preference or best place. Typical options are annotations, Finder comments or custom metadata text. Another possibility is to use a stand-alone document (e.g. plain/rich text, Markdown, formatted note) linking to the scan.