How to Convert Handwritten Notes To Digital Notes

if you want to know how to convert your handwritten notes into type text then this video is for you we will talk about how you can convert it from your handwriting notetaking apps into type text but more importantly how you can convert your paper handwritten notes into typed text so they become available for you to use in emails on your evernote or any other tools that you want to use also if you are using a remarkable and you are fed up with the handwriting to text conversion where you have to pay extra for the subscription this video is also for you on how to convert your handwriting on the remarkable into type text on any other device why do you want to have this well your notes become editable you can save a lot of time by just converting it instead of just typing it over and i'm sure many of you are aware of this already you can go into handwriting note-taking apps like apple notes notability good notes noteshelf nebu and you can write down your notes and then simply convert them into a text and if you want to learn more about the handwriting note-taking apps there's a video for you that i already created that shows you all the differences in another way how you can use handwriting to text conversion on the ipad actually is the new scribble feature what this allows you is you can use your apple pencil and right into all the text fields on your ipad for example if you search for something you don't have to put away your apple pencil and then type into the keyboard you just write it into the search field and you will find the application you're looking for you tap on it you open it this would be one use case not all the apps support this so i would love to see this in google docs or microsoft word the other advantages being in the apple ecosystem you can take your notes on any handwriting note-taking application convert it to text and copy it to clipboard and then go to your mac and paste it in there this is a feature that i use for many situations but now let's talk about how we can actually convert your handwritten notes on paper into typed text is not an easy task to do as most applications focus on type text so if you scan documents like i do with the raven scanner or if you scan them to evernote this works usually very well there are loads of applications in the app store that you can use to convert your documents into type text the issue is this focus really on typed text not on a handwritten text so before we dive into the solution i want to share with you the results i found with applications that i found in the app store we will start with the mobile scanner it scans it recognized but it gives me just random letters that same is for scanner pro same didn't recognize anything at all then i checked out text grab a very interesting application that has even real-time text recognition and gives you a translation but again it even said that there is no text on this image that i scanned there and finally i used pen to print and this worked the best out of all the things that i've used but again we had some mistakes in there and it was a bit buggy to use i think there's a much better solution for you and what this is we will find out in this video [Applause] [Music] so first off we will start with the google docs solution how this works is very straightforward you just take a picture and load it to your google drive in google drive you will just say open with google docs and it will open it up in google docs you see on top the image and below you see the text i'm using grammarly i really recommend installing this in this case because if the conversion is not right it makes it much easier to spot the mistakes and just with one click correct them however it's pretty cumbersome i have to reorder the text and so on because it's just one line of text that it's converting there delete the image afterwards okay and here we go into the great solution now if you follow this channel then you know i talked about rocketbook already and rocketbook is actually you have a qr code you write on this and when you finish you can scan it with the rocketbook application and it will convert it into searchable text and it can forward it to so many locations like evernote or via email or via slack and so on and you can do this by simply tagging down there it will automatically forward it to the destination you want it to be then you can just clean and wipe this clean and you can reuse it however in my opinion rocketbook doesn't feel that great to write on because when i'm using paper then i'm using it due to the sensation of paper using a fountain pen or using a pencil to really sketch something out and so on that i want to digitize later on so i thought why not leveraging the power of rocketbook the application and scan this way paper notes so i prepared a note here where also made a custom code which was not recognized by any of the other tools that i tested this note with but it was recognized by rocketbook and this showed me just how accurate it is and the other advantage is that it also recognized bullet points and so on so how do i get this in because the application is focusing on this qr code so it doesn't recognize any normal paper to scan in i ripped out a rocket book paper and i cut it out and this way i can now put this onto my node and this just works perfectly now i can scan this now and it uses the rocketbook handwriting recognition and it transcribes this text and now i can send it to google drive in the settings of the rocketbook app i can even say it should create a google doc out of this with the transcribed text and now guess what yes it creates a google doc without any image in it it creates a text it creates the bullet points everything is there as it was on my node already available as plain text and i think this is awesome it works the same way with evernote for example or you can send it directly via email and it will use the text on your node as the body of the email and send it directly to you or to anybody else you want to send it to the other thing that i did we have the small rocket book as well so i cut out a small frame so this allows me now to just frame a small part of the node that i want to scan it works perfectly as well and now guess what this is the solution for the remarkable the opportunity the company missed here is providing handwriting to text conversion so this means when you write something down there it's not searchable if you're using an ipad and handwriting no taking app all your notes become searchable this means when you're looking for anything just type in the word and it will show you the note where you have written this in this is not possible and remarkable the only thing is if you pay a subscription in addition to the initial price for the remarkable then do you have handwriting to text conversion but only to send one note out via email and it will do a handwriting to text conversion on this way check out the other video where i made that i made about remarkably where i went into much more detail about this but what you can do now well you guessed it already i guess you just use the rocketbook frame and you can scan it in with your rocketbook application and it will convert the node that you have there easily and now i show you something that optimizes this workflow which is this thing here you have the perfect distance to your nose you just use your iphone with the rocketbook application open you put it on there it has automatic scan place your node and the frame that i cut out there just on top of it and it will scan and now i can swipe through the rocket book in order to scan all the nodes automatically i'll put the links for all the stuff into the description below check this out and if you decide that you tick one of these symbols here on rocketbook you can automatically send it to evernote g drive whatever you set up there another tip that i want to give you don't tick it off there's no need you just a piece of whatever and you just put it on top of the symbol that sends this note to the location that you set up to and it will work this way as well so this means you can just move it around and then easily switch to destinations this node should be sent to and i think this is awesome if you think this is awesome let me know in the comments below share it with your friends and give this video a thumbs up and if you want to learn more about how to go digital how to leverage your notes in the best way possible make sure to subscribe to this channel and check out the paperless movement membership where we go a lot deeper into how you can leverage your digital world thanks for watching and i'll catch you up next time

Channel: Tom at Paperless Movement®

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Length: 8min 22sec (502 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 09 2022