“Yes. Microsoft OneNote can search text inside scanned PDFs, photographs of whiteboards, and handwritten notes.”
+ OCR search of scanned PDFs and images
“OneNote can recognize text in:”
+ Digital handwriting indexing
“OneNote is particularly good at indexing its own digital ink: handwriting created directly in OneNote using a stylus.”
+ Searchable knowledge archive capability
“OneNote is a pretty capable solution.”
+ Finding documents containing a particular word
“OneNote is good at this, provided its OCR has successfully recognized the text.”
− Slow OCR processing
“One caveat: OCR processing isn't necessarily immediate. Microsoft notes that some images can take up to 24–48 hours to become searchable.”
− Unreliable on messy whiteboard writing
“Messy whiteboard writing | Unreliable”
− Less dependable photographed handwriting OCR
“Photographed handwriting relies more heavily on image OCR, which is less dependable.”
− Limited OCR on web
“OCR in pictures | Yes | Yes | Limited”
− Less convincing for reliably indexing everything on a whiteboard
“OneNote is less convincing here.”