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I’m beginning a project that includes several PDFS that I fill out daily. I’d like to hand write my notes on the PDF forms and then convert the handwriting to text. Is this possible in the paid version of GoodNotes?
I need to take handwritten notes for a 45-video course, each lasting 2 hours. The course is filled with diagrams. But manually writing everything down would be a tedious process that could take me months.
Is there an online tool that suits my needs? It should support converting texts to handwritten notes and also allow me to insert images in specific sections of the page. Finally, compile everything and create a pdf with 1 click.
In short, I’m searching for an MS Word alternative with these capabilities.
Hi! I have written my journal / diary by hand in a simple notebook and already scanned all of it. I now have it as a PDF with good quality and I can read it and have it preserved. It lays around on my Synology NAS. However, Synology NAS has a "Universal Search" app which lets me search through documents and PDFs that have OCR in them. This is very useful and would be awesome for my diary because this would allow me to search through my past and find stuff really fast!
I tested around with OCRmyPDF on Linux but found out that while it's very good for documents containing machine text, it's not really that good for handwriting. It understands some words which allows me to search for some stuff, but it's not reliable and most of the recognized stuff is rubbish.
They do note that it's not good for handwritten text, though.
So my goal is not to turn my handwritten text to machine text. I want to preserve the handwriting in the PDF. I just want to convert it to a PDF-A with text recognition, so I can search through most of my diary. It doesn't have to be perfect in recognizing the handwriting, but let's say it should get at least 90% right. OCRmyPDF gives me about 1% correct recognition, which...well...isn't useful for my case.
Of course the tool should be able to run on Linux because I just don't use anything else. I don't mind if it's browser based, in a Docker container or a tool in repos as long as it gets the job done for me.