As for the problem of copying sections out of a book – which as a student is a constant necessity – I came across a post that mentioned a little gem of an app called “combine pdf’s” and it works great for what I need.

I scan the section of the books that I need for tutorial and send them to my desktop, I then move them into “combine pdf’s” and they are merged together into one continuous pdf document which i drop into my “add to evernote” folder that I set up earlier with the folder action script of Andrew’s.

It works like a charm. “combine pdf’s is free to use for the first 1000 pdf’s and afterwords you have to buy a license for $30 US. A little steep I know, but if it is a function you need all of the time I think it is money well spent.

As well, my Canon MX700 works like a dream on my network since I installed Snow Leopard and makes scanning into Evernote pure genius. One less wire is always good in my books.

How would I scan a sections of a book to pdf format as a continuous document to be copied into the folder that employs the folder action script.

But what seems to be really buggy is that quite regularly pages are missing!!! Sometimes it’s every other page, often it’s the last one. No problems when I scan to pdf to the desktop or a folder, so it’s not an issue of Image Capture.

(I’m using a Canon MX320 with document feeder, works just great!).

And yeah, Search in pdf works as well, Premium account is worth the money I’d say! I scan bloody everything these days, I keep only important certificates. Cheers, Wolfie

PS Does anybody know when ink notes will be supported? Works great on Windows but not on a Mac yet (other than that I love the Mac version much more than the Windows version).

Close details by clicking “Hide Details”. Now you only have three pull-downs:
-Mode
-Scan Size
-Scan To

My Scan To was originally set to a plain destination folder- pictures. I changed it to the Evernote app instead. To do this, choose “Other” in the “Scan To” and then navigate to Evernote Application (likely in your Applications Folder).

Now when you click scan it just pops right into Evernote with out intermediary steps.

1. Use Automator to extract all pages from the pdf as images (In the PDF library it’s called Render PDF Pages as Images).

2. Drag all pages to Evernote.

3. Select all the newly created notes in Evernote and chose “Merge Notes” from the Edit menu.

You’ll probably want to include a Rename sequential action in your Automator workflow.

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I’d love to get this working because the only scanner I have at work is on the network and only emails documents to me. If I could have those attachments dumped into a folder and automatically picked up by Evernote, that would be amazing.

I also have an IRISCard mini 4 business card scanner that works via USB too but Image Capture does not recognize it.

I might add that the OCR software that comes with the IRISCard mini 4 works well on the Mac for getting business cards into Address Book which is what I got it for. I was wondering if it would work with this tip from Evernote but not yet.

Also for a multiple page scanner you might want to look at the Brother MFC-6490cw which was avaiable for less than $200 after instant rebate (i’m not sure if the rebate is still available). It can scan directly to multiple pages and you can choose what format you want the files saved as. It is wireless and can scan to a network drive, email or USB stick without a computer even attached or on. It has a multiple page feeder on it and can even scan to 11 x 17 size. Pretty great bang for the buck.

Thanks for Evernote, it ROCKS!

cheers
-david

Unfortunately, the Eye-Fi manager only allows you to select a single web service to send photos to. However, during the upload process, all photos are also copied to a folder within “My Documents\My Pictures” (at least on a PC) called “Eye-Fi_upload”.

So, after reading the suggestion above, I decided to leave the Eye-Fi manager set to upload directly to Picasa, and then set the Evernote Windows client to watch the “Eye-Fi_upload” folder, which effectively causes Evernote to also upload the photos.

Perfect solution for me!

I had been photographing meeting notes with my iPhone and uploading them, which was clunky, slow and resulted in big image sizes.

Now I just use Windows Fax & Scan, and the images appear directly in EN without further intervention. Makes a big difference.

Jpeg method:
-Scan all pages of the doc into some folder (one that Evernote doesn’t automatically pull from).
-Drop all jpeg files into Adobe Acrobat (or equivalent). Yeah, this means you have to go buy software that can create PDFs. There may be a free option.
-Use Adobe Acrobat to OCR the jpeg images. This allows Evernote to search inside the document.
-Optional: Use the optimize document’ option to reduce the size of the PDF. You can squeeze the PDF down pretty small and have it still usable.
-Drop the newly created PDF into Evernote.

Direct PDF method:
-if your scanner supports creating a PDF document just scan into the PDF format directly. -Depending on the scanner software you may be able to have it do the OCR step automatically too, otherwise you are back to needing other software to do it.