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How to get a summary of your notes in otter.ai

Video overview:

The digital world is abundant with productivity tools designed to simplify our everyday tasks. One such tool that has seen a surge in popularity is Otter AI, a platform that has redefined how we take notes, create transcripts, and generate caption files from audio or video files. Let’s delve into how to use Otter AI to enhance your content creation and learning experiences.

How to Use Otter AI for Note Taking

The first step towards leveraging this innovative tool begins with visiting the Otter AI website. With a paid subscription, you unlock its full potential, ideal for content creators and those who need to generate SRT files frequently. But for the purpose of this guide, we’ll explore its note-taking capabilities.

On entering the interface, select the “Record” button to start. Otter AI instantly begins to transcribe everything that is said. It has the ability to capture conversations from multiple speakers simultaneously, assigning speakers and timestamps to the recorded information. Imagine sitting in a history class or a meeting, and Otter AI generates a detailed transcript for you!

How to Use Otter AI for Transcribing Conversations

But the magic doesn’t stop at note taking. What Otter calls an ‘individual recording’ is actually a conversation, which can be viewed, shared, or revised at any time.

Once you conclude a recording, it begins processing in the background. You can easily locate any of your previous conversations. For instance, if you select a six-minute-long conversation, you’ll notice a ‘Summary’ tab. Otter AI smartly categorizes your notes and attempts to apply structure, ensuring your content is neatly organized.

Moreover, the summary can be effortlessly copied into another program like Microsoft Word, providing you with a well-structured document without the hassle of manual note taking.

Sharing and Collaborating with Otter AI

In a collaborative environment, Otter AI shines by allowing you to share conversations with others. Any notes or images included in the conversation can also be shared, making it a versatile tool for group meetings, webinars, or study sessions.

In conclusion, understanding how to use Otter AI effectively can significantly boost your productivity. It’s more than a note-taking tool—it’s a comprehensive solution for content creators, students, and professionals alike. So, why wait? Try Otter AI today, and experience a new level of efficiency!

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Transcribe a video with Otter AI

Video Overview Getting Started: Using Otter.AI for Transcription You begin your transcription journey by visiting the Otter.AI website. This platform offers an easy-to-use ‘Import’ button, designed to make your experience as seamless as possible. The beauty of…

by Shawn Jordison

Notetaking with Otter AI

This post will explore features of notetaking with Otter AI. The video below is a little over 7 minutes long. Some takeaways Notetaking with Otter AI Welcome to the Accessibility Guy channel. In this video, we will…

by Shawn Jordison

ABBYY FineReader 16: Efficient PDF Editing and OCR

Video Overview

Welcome to the Accessibility Guy channel! We’re excited to share that ABBYY FineReader 16 is now on our computer. This latest version of ABBYY FineReader provides a stronger OCR engine and a host of PDF editing tools that can make document processing easier and more efficient. In this video, we’ll provide an overview of some of the most common workflows we personally work through when using ABBYY FineReader, so let’s jump right in.

Launching ABBYY FineReader PDF presents two main distinctions: the PDF document side and the OCR editor. While you can use the tool as a PDF editor, we want to focus on the OCR editor, as ABBYY FineReader has one of the strongest OCR engines on the market. It can assist you in converting file types, from PDF to Word, for example, or editing underlying text of a document and updating language settings.

When you launch the OCR editor, it will prompt you to open a file. Once you’ve selected your file, ABBYY FineReader will perform OCR on all the pages, and you’ll see a thumbnail section on the far left side of the screen that displays a snapshot of all the different pages in your document. The image panel displays the visual aspect of your PDF, and typically matches directly with the file. On the far right side of the screen, you’ll find the text area of ABBYY FineReader, where you can edit any of the underlying text of the program. If the OCR is poor, or you need to update a spelling mistake or add in information for acronyms, you can make changes in the text panel. Finally, a zoom panel appears on the bottom of the screen and will update depending on where you are in the image panel.

Before we dive into the settings, we like to adjust our settings. For example, we’ll take this document into a searchable PDF, so we need to adjust our PDF settings. To do that, we’ll select the Tools button and then select Options. This brings up the options window where you can set a variety of settings. In the General tab, you can choose when the OCR editor begins, or you can set up a scanning device to scan documents directly into ABBYY FineReader. We really want to spend most of our time under format settings.

Earlier, we mentioned that we’re going to be exporting to PDF, so we need to select our document type. We can adjust the settings for documents, spreadsheets, PowerPoints, text files, HTML ePubs, etc. For PDF, we’ll dive into the preferred settings. When creating accessible files, the first thing we want to adjust is the image quality. If you have a lot of images in your document, be sure to set custom. We’ll change our color control from automatic to “do not change image color,” as we don’t want any quality loss on our file. Then we’ll change the dropdown menu for quality to “quality loss not allowed” and select OK. We have additional settings that may not be relevant for you, such as creating PDF view a documents, which requires OCR. Additionally, we have the checkbox selected to use MRC compression, which also requires OCR. We like to apply the ABBYY precise scan to smooth characters on page images, which makes the font and images a bit crisper and easier to work with under searchable PDF settings.

We like to have the text under the page image, but you can adjust the settings for better results depending on the document you’re working with. We’ll have the option selected to create bookmarks from headings, create PDF tags, and ensure that our fonts are embedded. Additionally, you can set metadata in this way.

In conclusion, ABBYY FineReader 16 offers a range of OCR and PDF editing tools