Scan to Evernote from HP OfficeJet 8740 using a Mac

[Gnossos]

A web page, https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Printers-Archive-Read-Only/How-can-I-scan-directly-to-Evernote/m-p/441..., explains how to scan from an HP multipurpose device to Evernote. But apparently it's for Windows, and the Evernote documentation does not mention "watched folders" (although it does mention "import folders."

How does one import directly into Evernote from the  8740 using a Mac as the intermediary?

[KrazyToad]

@Gnossos

Welcome to the HP Support Community!

As I understand you are trying to Scan directly to Evernote using your Mac

Please try scanning using Apple's Image Capture App

1. Start Image Capture.

   This free application comes with Mac OS X and is located at /Applications/Image Capture.

2. Select the area you want to scan by dragging a rectangle around the preview of the scan.

3. Set the quality of the scan to B/W or Color Photo, depending on what you’re scanning.

4. Give your scan a title.

5. Choose PNG or JPEG as your scan’s format.

   If you’d rather scan to PDF, keep in mind that Evernote’s image recognition doesn’t recognize images embedded within PDFs but makes PDFs searchable for all subscribers.

6. Select Evernote as the Automatic Task.

   This step is the key step in this process.

7. Click Scan.

8. Go into your Evernote account, and check out your newest note.

Keep me posted how it goes

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[Gnossos]

Hi Krazy Toad,

I got up to Step 2 in your instructions and then ran into these difficulties:

1. Instead of seeing a preview, I see a "Scan Results" window and something that looks like a lined sheet of paper. Its top row contains "Scan 1.pdf".
2. Clicking on the top row opens the pdf in Acrobat.
3. Then I escaped out of that screen and returned to the original one (the "Image Capture" window, I believe), and only now can I see the image in the app.
4. But I still don't see any way to select areas on it, much less to choose your Steps 2-5. (I've never even heard of the Image Capture app before now, so this may reflect my unfamiliarity with it.)
5. Also bad, regarding file storage, apparently Image Capture works the opposite as HP Easy Scan. Image Capture wants the user to select a storage folder first, and then it scans the image directly into that folder; OTOH, Easy Scan  scans into a scratch area and then asks the user to select if and where they want to store the image. Ever since Xerox PARC, I've always thought consistent behavior on any given OS was a standard of good software design.
6. I expanded the "Details" sidebar, and it provides ways to accomplish your Steps 3-5.
7. But, most importantly, a way to choose the "Automatic Task," as in your Step 6,  appears nowhere: not in the sidebar, not in any of the menu items, nowhere. It's completely MIA.

What next?