Drag-and-Drop OCR in iOS 11

DEVONthink To Go does not have OCR(Optical Character Recognition)capabilities built-in. However, if you have an iOS device capable of running in split view mode (as of this writing: iPad Pro, iPad Air 2 or iPad mini 4) and an iOS OCR application, you may* be able to do OCR now.

1. Open the OCR application (and make sure it’s set to do OCR automatically, if needed).
2. Open DEVONthink To Go and flip up from the bottom of the screen to show the iOS dock.
3. Hold and drag the OCR app to a side of the screen until it appears in a split view.
4. In DEVONthink To Go, navigate to a file you need to do OCR on, click and hold until it separates from the file list.
5. Drag and drop it into the OCR application to process it. (Save the file if required.)
6. After OCR is complete, drag the OCR’d file back into the database.

Bonus-tip: If you begin dragging a file, pause and, with your other hand, touch other files to OCR. Dropping these files creates a multipage PDF, with each page OCR’d!

work with Readdle Scanner Pro. You’ll have to test your own OCR applications. Also note the name of the OCR’d file depends on the OCR application you’re using.)