The problem is that if you send the journal as a pdf to evernote then evernote will not try to recognize anything because you need premium account to search pdf. BUt even if you had the premium account it wouldn't work because the PDF OCR doesn't work with handwriting. Evernote treat images with a different algorithm that works with handwriting. That's why we need the journal to give the option of email as images if we want to be able to use evernote for handwriting search.