One of the strengths of Scrivener is that I can clip a bit of text from a website directly into my project. Why not send a clip directly to Scrivener? Also, I need to be able to easily move the OCR’d clip into my writing programmes (Scrivener and AEON Timeline, at this time), which I can’t do - at least not easily - out of Evernote or OneNote. Evernote can be touchy and deliver poor results. Software such as OneNote claims to convert files automatically, but sometimes so very slowly it’s not practical. I’ve messed around with OCR software quite a bit over time. Basically, OCR makes it possible to search for a word in a photo. For example, if I was looking for clips about Mother of the Maids I should be able to search that title and all relevant files would be listed.Ĭlips are a png file, a type of photo, so how is this done?įor the text in a photo to be searchable it needs to have OCR - optical character recognition. Research clips are not of much use to me unless I can search the text. Why it’s important to a researcher for all files to be searchable My next step is to gather up all the clips and drag them into an empty “Today’s clips” folder. It’s so easy to do I often end up with a mess on my computer desktop. Here’s a screen shot to give you an idea how things can look at the end of a day: When I’m researching and I see a bit of text relevant to my WIP (either online or on Kindle), I will clip it: shift-command-4 and “pull” rectangle around the text I want.
For Research Nerds: clipping information and making it OCR searchableīy Sandra Gulland | | Baroque Explorations, On Research | 0 comments
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