Evernote also has a preview of the selected note when navigating notes. Evernote provides a view containing a snippet of the search results in the context of the file. The only issue I have is that the Google Drive search results interface is lacking compared to Evernote.

Google Drive search is fairly powerful (it will search the content even without OCR).I share the account with my wife and so she’ll have easy access as well.Evernote has all these other features that it has accumulated over the years that I don’t utilize (feature bloat).Evernote now requires me to pay ($90/year) for a subscription to search text inside documents.You get 15 GB for free (which is a lot for documents), or you’re likly already paying for additional storage anyways. There are a number of reasons for picking Google Drive over Evernote: You gain the ability to export automatically to a document storage solution of your choice – I selected Google Drive. In contrast to many other document scanning applications out there, you don’t need a subscription to unlock the extra functionality – it’s a one-time purchase of approximately $10. In my experimentation, Genius Scan performed exceedingly well against others with respect to the quality and speed of scans. I decided to switch from using my Doxie with Evernote to using Genius Scan with Google Drive.

On the flip side, mobile phones and their applications have greatly advanced in the last 8 years. Evernote’s software isn’t looking so great anymore, and there is wavering hope around the company. The Eye-Fi company doesn’t exist anymore, and my SD card is useless (trust me I tried to make it work). My Doxie Go has lost its battery capacity and dies after a few scans (you cannot scan when it’s charging). I embraced Evernote as my document storage solution, as it hit everything and was highly recommended. I even paired it with an Eye-Fi SD card so that I could upload scans wirelessly to my Macbook Air. I was able to scan documents with OCR so that I could search their contents.

I only really embraced a document storage solution when I acquired a Doxie Go back in 2013.

Evernote scannable document to pdf