Taking notes from physical books

Table of Contents

Take pictures of the paragraphs.
Be liberal with the number of pictures. The more the better.
After taking pictures, look at them in a computer.
If we have the ability to crop them easily, that will be much better. We can get rid of the unwanted content in each picture, and leave the part that we absolutely want.
1. In WindowsOS, this seems to be very easy, because the tool to view it and edit it is the same.
2. Look for good tools in Linux distributions to do this.
  1. We can do it with GIMP (I found that it is much easier to do it with Windows Photos though).
Using OCR (Optical Character Recognition) tools to capture text from images
1. After the pictures are cropped properly, extract text from them.
2. Use online OCR websites like https://www.imagetotext.info/
  1. Pros
    1. Free
  2. Cons
    1. The websites have a daily limit on the number of images that can be converted to text
    2. The quality is a hit or miss
    3. The process is tedious
3. Use Google Keep
  1. Pros
    1. Good quality conversion
    2. In a single shot, it can capture notes from multiple pages.
    3. I tried it with batches of 10 pages and it works seamlessly.
  2. Questions
    1. Does this have a daily limit? Doesn’t look like it.