ONBeta2007 Printing to OneNote

[Jay]

First, I have the office system information worker feedback software
installed - I can send bugs and suggestions through it - however is this
forum a better place to post suggestions/bugs?

Printing to OneNote:

1) I should be able to print pages of a file to separate pages in OneNote.
2) I should be able to specify the name of the OneNote pages when I print to
OneNote.
3) I should be able to select the OneNote section to which I would like the
printed pages to be added (and the default should be the last section to
which I printed)
4) I should be able to select an option to automatically turn on OCR for
printed pages

Why? I am a medical student. I print out PDF files to annotate regularly.
The larger files are 500 to over 1000 pages long (these are eBooks created by
our professors that equate to our curriculum's required reading). I don't
want a single page with thousands of page images printed to it. I want each
page image printed to a separate OneNote page so that I can easily navigate,
etc. At the same time, I need to be able to specify a name for the pages so
that I don't have to manually rename 100s or 1000s of pages. Also, I don't
want to have to select and move thousands of pages from the "unfiled notes"
section to somewhere else - I want to be able to directly print to the
destination section. Luckily, 100s to 1000s of page print jobs only occur
one every few months. On a more regular basis, I print PDF journal articles
to OneNote for annotation. These typically are 10-40 pages long. I still
like to have each PDF page on a separate OneNote page when I print them.

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[Patrick Schmid]

If you want to report feedback and bugs for OneNote 2007 (note this is
only for OneNote, not for the rest of Office 2007), use
connect.microsoft.com
1) ON 2007 doesn't support this. Submit feedback on Connect
2) & 3) Go into Tools, Options, Filing Rules, Printouts and switch it to
either "new page in the current section" or "on the current page". For
that option, you have to make sure you have the respective page/section
open in ON before you print
3) OCR should always be done automatically on your printouts. If you
have cases where this doesn't happen, submit a bug on Connect with an
attached OneNote section file (.one)

Patrick Schmid

 

[Alex]

Thanks Jay for the insight into how you use this feature. Unfortunately what
you are asking for is too much for us to add at this point, but these are
good suggestions and we'll take them under consideration for next release.

-Alex

 

[Layne P. Heiny]

3) OCR should always be done automatically on your printouts. If you
have cases where this doesn't happen, submit a bug on Connect with an
attached OneNote section file (.one)

Interesting. None of my PDFs are converted. Do you believe there is an
option not set properly?

 

[Patrick Schmid]

Nope, definitely not. When you right-click on one of those printouts in
ON, do you have an option to copy text? If yes, use it and paste it into
notepad or Word. What is the result?
If you get any text at all, then OCR is being run and the results of OCR
weren't great. If you get no text, then something went wrong with OCR
probably.
Is it that you can't search for terms in a printout? If that's the case,
the issue might be with instant search and not with OCR.
Which language are the PDFs? What's their source? If these are PDFs of
scanned articles, then OCR will be relatively bad. If these are PDFs
created from electronic documents, then OCR should be much better. Older
journal articles are generally scanned, newer ones are created directly
(you should be able to tell the difference just by looking at the pdf).

Patrick Schmid

 

[Layne P. Heiny]

I can right click on the document and copy the complete document into Word
but my expectations were to be able to select specific text in ON rather
than the whole document.

 

[Patrick Schmid]

You can choose between copying the text for one page or the text for all
pages. In addition the text is rendered searchable. But ON doesn't let
you select text freely like you were hoping to.

Patrick Schmid

 

[EMRhelp.org]

Hi Jay,

You are not going to be happy with OneNote for your usage scenario.
OneNote will not handle printing 500 page .pdfs to it. It might work
for a while, but will eventually crash.

Have you tried PDF Annotator ? http://www.ograhl.com/en/pdfannotator/

It has some great features and allows you to INK on top of .pdf files
directly. ie. on a Tablet PC.
I love the 4 page VIEW feature. Great for navigating documents.

 

[Patrick Schmid]

Have you submitted a bug on connect about this?

Patrick Schmid

 

[ricochet]

Get fineprint from www.fineprint.com. The fineprint printer driver
lets you use stationary, ttemplates, etc, and you can make pdfs with
the associated product -- fineprint pdf factory pro.

Here's why it might work for you -- you 'print' to the fineprint
driver, and you can delete pages, re-org them (between jobs), etc.
Good luck.

 

[Linda B]

Get fineprint from www.fineprint.com. The fineprint printer driver
lets you use stationary, ttemplates, etc, and you can make pdfs with
the associated product -- fineprint pdf factory pro.

Here's why it might work for you -- you 'print' to the fineprint
driver, and you can delete pages, re-org them (between jobs), etc.
Good luck.

Yes, I recommend Fineprint too. Makes life a lot easier and saves ink/paper
as you can print 4/8 pages to a sheet if its convenient. It's also easy to
create letterheads and watermarks too.