OCR in RightNote

Posted by WSP
Dec 11, 2018 at 09:15 PM

Playing around with RightNote this afternoon, I made a pleasant discovery, and I’m mentioning it here because others may have perhaps overlooked this feature too.

If you right-click on a text image (such as a clipping from a printed page in a book or a newspaper article) in one of your notes, and then select “Miscellaneous,” you will see a box containing “Alternate text.” It’s easy to copy that text and paste it into your note, which gives a text version of the image. After doing this with some sharp images (where it was extremely accurate), I then compared a rather blurry sample in both RightNote and OneNote (since I’ve always thought this kind of conversion was one of OneNote’s most attractive features), and I found that the (imperfect) texts generated in both programs were identical, so I assume there must be some underlying OCR software in Windows that both programs are using.