Edit scans on the iPhone by tapping the thumbnail image in the bottom-right
corner to open them. Then tap the ‘...’ icon.Search within your scans
Scan your documents into Notes and search with OCR
Scans and OCR
You don’t see it, but either
the Mac or the iPhone has
analysed the image using
OCR and extracted the text
from it. Searches in Notes
shows documents containing
the search text.It might look like you are simply taking
photographs of documents with the
iPhone camera, but there is more going on
than you realise. The scan is often given
a title that is taken from the document.
OCR (optical character recognition)
has obviously taken place on the image
and the Mac and iPhone can read and
understand the text. There is no indication
where the text is stored, but it is obviously
somewhere because you can search for
text within scans.Searching Notes
with OCR
1
Show scans
There are two ways to show scanned
documents: click the Browse Attachments
toolbar button and select the ‘Scans’ tab, or
click in the search box and then select ‘Notes
with Scanned Documents’.2
Search the scans
Instead of showing all scans, enter a
keyword or phrase into the search box to
see all scans that contain the text. Notes has
OCR’d the scans, extracted the text from
them and shows the scans in search results.Use your iPhone
There is no need for a
dedicated scanner these days
and the iPhone’s camera
makes a great one. Get your
iPhone, select the option from
the menu and start scanning
paper-based documents.Search in scans
Use the search box to list
the notes with keywords
or phrases. If you have
scanned documents in Notes,
the contents of them are
searched too and they appear
in the search results.Customise the scan
Double-click a scanned document
in a note and it opens in a
separate window. Click the Apply
Filter icon in the toolbar to show
this toolbar and choose the best
view for the scanned document.Link your iPhone
To use an iPhone as a scanner for
the Mac requires them to be near to
each other and on the same Wi-Fi
network. In addition to this, Bluetooth
must be enabled on both the Mac
and the iPhone and they must be able
to see each other. Check in System
Preferences>Bluetooth on the Mac and
Settings>Bluetooth on the iPhone.Knowledge base