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Some time ago we published a post explaining how to scan directly into Evernote for Mac. In this post, I’ll explain how to set up the Fujitsu ScanSnap to work with Evernote for Windows.
Fujitsu ScanSnap
We’re big fans of the Fujitsu ScanSnap for a bunch of reasons: it scans both sides of a multipage document, auto-rotates and discards blank pages, OCRs the text, and, most importantly, can be set to deposit the resulting PDF into Evernote. It has become an indispensable part of my workflow. Every document I have goes through my ScanSnap into Evernote before heading into the recycling bin.
Setting up your ScanSnap
Right click on the ScanSnap manager icon in the task manager and select ‘SCAN Button Settings’ (make sure that the ‘Use Quick Menu’ is not checked)
In the ‘Applications’ tab, click ‘Add or Remove’, then click ‘Add’ in the next pop-up window
Add Evernote by clicking the ‘Browse’ button and navigating to Evernote.exe (in most cases it is in C:\Program Files\Evernote\)
Type ‘Evernote’ for the Application Name and click OK. Be sure to select ‘Evernote’ in the application drop down menu.
In the ‘File Option’ tab, select PDF as the format and check the ‘Searchable PDF’ option (if available). Click OK.
Now, left-click on the ScanSnap Manager icon – you should see Evernote as the selected destination – if this is the case – you are all set up. From now on, whenever you scan a document, it will go into Evernote.
You can also use the Fujitsu ScanSnap with Evernote on your Mac. Steps are almost identical and DocumentSnap has a great blog post explaining how to set that up.
Scanning Handwritten Notes
The Fujitsu Scansnap does a great job OCR’ing printed text, but it does not handle handwritten text. Evernote can help. If you are scanning pages of handwritten notes, our image recognition can make them searchable. To take advantage of this, set up a second profile in the ScanSnap manager to scan your documents as JPEG images, instead of PDFs. Use this profile when you want to archive your notebooks and scribbles.
Using other Windows scanners with Evernote
The instructions vary greatly depending on the scanner and the scanning software you might be using, but there are a couple of general tips that should help you set up your Windows scanner to send to Evernote:
Find your scanner settings (located in the Control Panel, or a stand-alone program)
Look for a way to configure the hardware buttons on the scanner
Set a button to launch Evernote, by pointing it to the Evernote.exe (in most cases it is in C:\Program Files\Evernote\)
Save the settings and try it.
Evernote knows what to do with files sent to it from a scanner, such as images or PDFs. If Evernote is not running, it will launch and create a new note from the received file.
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Does this sound familiar: you dropped a few hundred bucks on a new digital camera and you’re using it once a month to snap photos of vacations, friends, and family. It sure sounds familiar to me, because that’s how I use my camera: rarely. That’s all about to change.
Evernote and Eye-Fi have teamed up and the results are, well, amazing. It’s now dead simple to get photos into Evernote. You’re about to get much, much more out of your digital camera.
What’s Eye-Fi?
Eye-Fi makes Wi-Fi-enabled SD memory cards, which are compatible with the vast majority of digital cameras on the market. You put the Eye-Fi Card into your camera, go through a quick setup process, and any photo you take will be wirelessly sent into your Evernote account. No cables. No docks. Just magic.
This changes everything
Think about it, you own a device (camera) that takes high-quality photos incredibly well, and you use a service (Evernote) that’s really good at recognizing text in your photos and organizing your memories. Now with Eye-Fi, your, formerly, once-a-month camera becomes an essential tool to capture all sorts of day-to-day things. Here are some ideas:
Got back from a conference with a stack of business cards? Snap a photo of them.
Just finished a big whiteboard session? Don’t copy it into your notebook, snap a photo.
Just had dinner? Snap a photo of the receipt for your records.
Doing some comparison shopping? Go to a store and snap a photo of the sales tags.
Got a billion dollar idea sketched on a napkin? Snap a photo so you’ll never forget it.
Then, as soon as you come into range of an open wireless access point, or one that you’ve configured, the Eye-Fi card will send those photos into Evernote, where they’ll be processed, indexed, and made searchable and available on every platform and device you use. That’s pretty sweet.
Get an Eye-Fi card now. They make awesome gifts, too. Be sure to choose the Share, Anniversary, or Explore cards —these come with the web sharing feature.
Geo-location
Some Eye-Fi Cards also capture your location when you snap a photo. Once in Evernote, photos with geographic information can be easily mapped. This way, you’ll remember the “where” in addition to the “what.”
A great reason to go Premium
Today’s cameras are amazingly good. The pictures they produce are sharp, vibrant, and full of data, but they’re also quite large. By upgrading to Evernote Premium you’ll get tons of storage for all those snapshots, plus you’ll get priority image recognition, so your photos will be recognized super fast. Upgrade now.
We’ve all been there: you hand someone a gift, they tear off the wrapping paper, their eyes filled with anticipation, then their excitement turns to a forced smile, “Oh this, this is great, I’ve always wanted one of these, no you really shouldn’t have…do you have the receipt?”
The holidays can be stressful. Picking out the perfect present (or at least something they won’t hate) isn’t easy. We’re coming to the rescue. Evernote can help you give and get better gifts. No one should have to unwrap this:
Gift giving is tough. Evernote can help.
Here’s what you can do:
Create a public notebook and call it “Christmas Wish List” or “[your name here]’s Gift List” or “Stop Using Your Imagination, Here’s What I Want List”
Before starting with Evernote, I don’t think I’d successfully used a business card. I mean, I’d never actually found someone’s contact information by digging a business card from the alpine masses of indiscriminate paper which accumulate in and around my various desks, backpacks and pockets. Not any more; with Evernote, I immediately snap any business card that I want to remember with the closest camera at hand (usually my phone or laptop webcam), and rest easy knowing that I’ll always be able to find it instantly from any phone or computer.
One big nuisance: the camera on the iPhone, my current cellphone of choice, is not very good at taking pictures of close-up objects. To use the iPhone for business cards, you have to get pretty proficient at holding the card very steady and at arm’s length, and even then the results are sometimes disappointing.
Griffin has completely solved this problem with their new Clarifi case for the iPhone 3G. In a three word review: it’s amazingly great.
The Clarifi fits snugly over your iPhone and comes with a little sliding macro lens letting you take clear close-up shot of business cards, receipts and anything else you can think of (I can only think of business cards and receipts). Here’s an example before and after photo of a hand-held business card:
I’ve been using the Clarifi case for a couple of weeks now and the only time I temporarily took my iPhone out of it was to film the demo movie at the top of this post.
The case is $35 direct from Griffin. If you buy it from the links on this page, Evernote gets a small affiliate commission, so please consider buying one for everyone in your family or town.
I am constantly trying to keep my desk clear of miscellaneous scraps of paper. Anything ranging from receipts to business cards to post-its that manage to accumulate in piles around my keyboard or in the pockets of my jacket and backpack. As these piles grow larger, more unmanageable, and completely unsearchable, I decided to find an effective way to dump everything into Evernote.
On my desk, behind a pile of notes, sits a scanner. After a bit of fiddling, I think I found a pretty nice way to scan directly into Evernote that will work for a majority of scanners. I am currently using a Mac, but there are similar methods that could be used on Windows as well.
The setup is quite simple:
Start ‘Image Capture’ – it is a free application that comes with OS X (/Applications/Image Capture)
If your scanner is supported (and turned on) you will see a window similar to the one in the screenshot below
Select the area you want to scan by dragging a rectangle around the preview of the scan
Set the quality of the scan to either B/W or Color Photo (depending on what you are scanning)
Give your scan a title
Choose PNG, JPEG as the format. If you would rather scan to PDF, keep in mind that images in PDFs will not be recognized by our image recognition
Select ‘Evernote’ as the Automatic Task – this is the key step in this process
And click ‘Scan’ – that’s all
For the subsequent scans, all you have to do is adjust the selected area and enter a different title. All the other settings will be remembered as defaults.
Now, everything you scan will go directly to Evernote with the title you assign. And, all your notes will be searchable thanks to Evernote’s image recognition.
I hope this process helps others clear their desks.
We recently launched the Evernote API, which allows third party developers to integrate Evernote functionality into their applications and services. In this series, we will highlight some of the most exciting integrations.
Pelotonics, in their own words
Pelotonics unifies your team online to get things done. Organize your projects, collaborate with your group, and succeed in meeting your goals.
Pelotonics + Evernote API
Pelotonics is a project management and collaboration service, which allows organizations to easily manage multiple projects and tasks among groups of users. What Pelotonics needed was a powerful information capture tool. They found that in Evernote, thanks to the Evernote API.
Here’s a video conversation between Phil Libin (our CEO) and Troy Malone of Pelotonics.
If you’re like us, then you spend a lot of time thinking about work (in a good way). It often feels like inspiration has a tendency to strike at random times, and the key is to capture it and make it actionable. The combination of Evernote’s multiplatform data capture, and Pelotonics’ project management, make going from inspiration to action a snap.
Thanks to the integration, users can now link Pelotonics to Evernote and easily bring notes into their Pelotonics account. Once a note is in Pelotonics, it can be assigned to a user or project, set as a task, attached to a message, or saved as a file. Instructions on linking the accounts are available on the Pelotonics FAQ page.
Since this is a server-side integration, user can take full advantage of all the functionality Evernote offers. Create a note using the desktop, web, or mobile versions of Evernote, sync, and have it instantly appear in Pelotonics. The video below shows Troy using the integration.
Check out more video use case examples from Pelotonics.
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Pelotonics is graciously offering Evernote users a 50% discount off of the first month of paid Pelotonics service. Get it while you can.
The Evernote API
Learn more about the Evernote API on our developer page, and join over a hundred developers working with the Evernote API to create new and exciting integrations.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, buried beneath many larger rocks, you’re probably aware that there’s an election coming up. In this election, like in most others, there is a lot to be decided: president, congressional representatives, state representatives, local leaders, ballot initiatives, and more.
Making the right decisions means staying informed, and with all the partisan muckity-muck and mud slinging, it’s amazingly difficult to remain focused. We’ve come up with 5 great ways to use Evernote this election season to help you stay in the know.
1. Follow the issues that matter to you
Create notebooks and/or tags around the issues you care about most. As new articles, statistics and research appear, add them to your Evernote account. Before you know it, you’ll have a complete reference for all the issues that matter, accessible anytime, anywhere.
2. Track each candidate’s positions
Think a candidate is flip-flopping (read: refining) a position? Good thing you’ve been clipping and tagging articles all along. A quick search in Evernote will reveal the truth.
3. Stay on top of local candidates and initiatives
With the spotlight squarely focused on the national stage, we often forget about local politics. Use Evernote to capture information on local candidates and on state and local ballot initiatives so that you’re not surprised come November.
4. Create a historic archive
Choose a topic, say political posters, then collect everything you can on that topic. Clip articles and images on the Web. Go to a rally and snap photos with your camera phone right into your Evernote account. Then, search and find any item from your personal archive whenever you like, even years later.
5. Share your findings
Don’t let the pundits have all the fun. Collect articles and write your own, then publish your Election 2008 notebooks. Share the URL(s) with friends, and have them subscribe to your RSS feed. Not the publishing type? You can always email individual notes right from Evernote.
Sign into you account now and get started. Have more suggestions? Leave a comment.
Want to share a note with the world? Now you can. Evernote for iPhone v 1.3 adds the ability to email individual notes right from the iPhone.
To dos
Now you can check and uncheck to-do boxes right on the iPhone. Create a shopping list in Evernote for Windows or Mac, then check items off on your iPhone as you buy them.
We’re working on giving you the ability to create checkboxes on the iPhone. Stay tuned.
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