paperbase (agpl) also implements ocr with tesseractocr:

> When extracting from images, it is also possible to chain in Tesseract, via the TesseractOCRParser, to have OCR performed on the contents of the image. The processor will skip the base64 decoding thenĪpache Tika supported formats > Images > TesseractOCR: If you do not want to incur the overhead of converting back and forth between base64, you can use the CBOR format instead of JSON and specify the field as a bytes array instead of a string representation. > The source field must be a base64 encoded binary. > : The ingest attachment plugin lets Elasticsearch extract file attachments in common formats (such as PPT, XLS, and PDF) by using the Apache text extraction library Tika. Also, it would be nice to have it based on markdown and plain text files, but it uses xml, IIRC.) (Unfortunately, copy-pasting from Tomboy doesn't work well, so the bullet point hierarchy gets lost. So it would be nice to have an app that covers both. (Though it does create links semi-automatically, which is not bad, though I don't use it a lot.) So it seems that one can have either end of the spectrum, but most documents, at least for me, would start as lightweight notes and then some of them may turn out to be something more convoluted and for the long term. Now the major shortcoming of Tomboy (besides the lack of real markdown support, though the bullet point handling is pretty much OK) is that it gets stuck at this lightweight level and there is no UI for the aforementioned organization. (A global keyboard shortcut would be even better.) Also, I'd have multiple notes (in separate windows) and have the app running all the time so that creating a new note is just a few clicks. Just the text and none of the tools that take up extra space.

writing code, creating a blog post, etc.)Īnd for that I need something that's lightweight on the screen. Be it during a meeting or just collecting information or organizing thoughts about a specific topic but not necessarily for the long term and then using those while working in other apps (e.g. Which I'm sure is pretty nice for creating a nice hierarchical structure, writing long documents and crosslinking them but, for me at least, note taking is about taking random short or ad hoc notes. Most apps seem to be this huge convoluted editors, with a UI resembling an IDE. Not because Tomboy is great (it isn't), but because it's actually a note taking app. I'm still looking for the note taking app that can replace Tomboy.

Alternatives to evernote mac