This functionality relies on the PDF containing searchable text, but Evernote Premium customers will find that even scanned documents will become searchable, since the service includes OCR scanning of all uploaded PDF documents. Not only is text now searchable within PDF documents, it can also be manually selected and then copied to the clipboard for pasting elsewhere, either within Evernote itself or another application. You can also search inside individual notes containing PDFs by pressing +. When you're done, just tap the pen icon in the top left-hand corner and you will return to the main note screen.When searching for text across your notes, Evernote for Window swill now also search inside your PDF files for searchable text, highlighting matches in yellow. Now you can pick the color you want to write in (black, gray, red, or blue), and then add your handwritten notes. The writing screen looks like a piece of graphing paper - which is good, since it's hard to tell if you're writing straight across on a small screen. To access the handwriting feature, open a new or existing note and tap on the pen icon at the top. Otherwise, just go ahead and download it from the Play Store. If Evernote is already installed on your Android device, you should see that it has an update available. Once you're approved by someone with community manager permissions, you'll also need to visit this link to get download access for the beta. Head to the Evernote for Android App Beta Test Google+ page (yeah, that's a mouthful), and click the Ask to join button. This is relatively easy, but requires asking to join the Evernote beta Google+ community, and then agreeing to become a beta tester. To get access to the new feature, you'll need to join their beta tester group. Evernote just added another tool for note-taking to their beta version: handwriting input. If you've finally pinned down the best way to use Evernote (as in tagging, categorizing, etc.) to meet your needs, forget it.

For more details on the update, check out Sarah Mitroff's Let your handwriting shine in Evernote's Android app. To try it out, just make sure you have the latest version of the app from the Google Play Store. Update, March 5, 2014: Evernote rolled out the handwriting feature to the public today.

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