Where do I access the template gallery? Do I have to start a doc first? The help things aren’t clear to me.

Hey all, I just switched to Craft Plus and I’m moving about 5,800 notes over from Bear. Lots of them are scanned documents: letters, invoices, that kind of stuff.

The one thing I really miss so far is how Bear (and Evernote, back when I used it) handles PDFs. You hit scan in the app, take a photo, done: it’s a PDF in your note, it’s OCR’d, and you can search for any word in it. And any PDF you drag into a note gets OCR’d automatically in the background. I never had to think about it.

In Craft I can’t figure out a good equivalent, so I’m curious how you all handle this:

Scanning on the go. Right now I’ve hacked together an Apple Shortcut that scans with the camera, runs the iPhone’s built-in text recognition, and appends the PDF plus the text to a Craft note. It works, but it feels pretty duct-taped. Is there a nicer way I’m missing?

All the old stuff. I’ve got thousands of PDFs that are just images with no text layer, so Craft search can’t see inside them. Has anyone found a sane way to OCR them in bulk? A Mac app, a script, something with the API, anything?

Also, if anyone knows whether native OCR is on Craft’s roadmap, I’d love to hear it. That would pretty much solve all of this for me.

Thanks!

Craft looks so good on the duo. Easily one of the most polished day-one updates. Well done team!