One thing I think I’m confused about is OCR functionality. I too lament the absence of a solution other than Evernote to make handwritten notes searchable, but its a big job to do, and making this kind of thing portable or cross-compatible would be a massive undertaking. It won’t do this (as far as I know) with images of handwritten text. An exception is Nebo which does convert your in-app hand writing into text characters which can be manipulated and exported. Which text character would actually be selected when you select a handwritten marking of a character? This kind of probabilistic recognition is fine for search, but it really doesn’t help if you want to do anything with that text other than read the image of it. This is also why the text isn’t selectable or manipulable in Evernote. Evernote relies on its own processing and algorithm to make sense of all of this invisible data. How would that be represented in a portable way that could be interpreted by other programs (I’m sure a standard could be developed of course). This is why your OCR’d handwriting can’t be exported from Evernote. Each image of a character has a lot of possible textual matches. So in Evernote, there is not a 1:1 correspondence between an image of a character and the recognized text, there’s a 1:MUCH GREATER THAN 1 correspondence. Unlike OCR where each image of a character corresponds to a single character of recognized text, handwriting recognizers will create a probabilistic list of potential matches for each image of character or word. The way systems like Evernote (and Apple and Nebo) work is different than the way a typical OCR works. The issue is that unlike recognizing characters in an image of typed text, handwritten letters can be (far more) ambiguous (than images of typed characters). I am not aware of anything that will make scans of hand-written notes searchable other than Evernote.Īpple Notes and Nebo for iPad will recognize hand-written notes you write within the app.
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