OneNote cannot open files in the “Portable Document Format (PDF)” format. When you try to set Microsoft OneNote.app as a destination on the ScanSnap’s Application tab, you get The document xxxx.pdf could not be opened. Many if not most Mac apps let you pass in files by dragging them onto the Dock icon or by specifying them in, for example, ScanSnap Manager on the Application tab. Microsoft OneNote.app Doesn’t Accept PDFs This doesn’t exist on Mac, but there is an open feature request to add it. This lets you import from your scanner directly to OneNote.

If you do have a TWAIN compatible scanner, the Windows version of OneNote has a Scanned Image button under the Insert menu.

This is the easiest way to scan to OneNote if you have a scanner (like the ScanSnap) that does not support TWAIN. On Windows, as outlined in my How To Use The Fujitsu ScanSnap With Microsoft OneNote post, there is a printer driver that lets you save things to OneNote. There is no Send To OneNote Printer Driver There are a few reasons why scanning to OneNote on the Mac doesn’t work:ġ. Why You Can’t Scan To OneNote For Mac Doesn’t (Yet?) This article will show you the options we do have, and I’ll update in the future when new capabilities are added to OneNote. You can definitely scan your documents and save them to OneNote, but I haven’t been able to figure out a way to do it automatically.

I wish I could say I was successful, but I have to admit (hopefully temporary!) defeat. Whether with the ScanSnap or with some other scanner, I figured there must be a way to do it. When I sat down to write this article, I was determined to come up with a way to scan to OneNote for Mac in some sort of automated fashion.

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