adang001 0 Posted July 19, 2010 Share Posted July 19, 2010 Is there a way or application that will transcribe hand written notes saved in Evernote to text? Link to comment
engberg 89 Posted July 19, 2010 Share Posted July 19, 2010 No, when we process an image with handwriting, we don't produce a single text transcription, but rather a tree of possibilities for every word.http://www.evernote.com/pub/ensupport/f ... b802db&b=0 Link to comment
adang001 0 Posted July 20, 2010 Author Share Posted July 20, 2010 Is there any type of API to access the possible choices for text translation? Link to comment
engberg 89 Posted July 20, 2010 Share Posted July 20, 2010 The recognition results are available in an XML based format via our API:http://www.evernote.com/about/developer/api/But this isn't really set up for end users to do anything simple with. Link to comment
wellton1869 0 Posted August 4, 2010 Share Posted August 4, 2010 i have to say this: evernote's handwriting recognition ability (from a jpg photo of a handwritten note!) is *astonishing*. That said, I too came here immediately searching for a way to export out the text of a handwritten note. Its obviously much more useful if the text can be extracted. Both to check that it was OCR'd correctly, and to be able to do useful things with that text (integrate it into a term paper being written in MS Word, for instance). But I see from the explanation above that exporting out the text is basically not possible (at this time, or ever?) with evernote. Thats a real bummer. Link to comment
Level 5 jbenson2 2,149 Posted August 4, 2010 Level 5 Share Posted August 4, 2010 I've found it very helpful to just type in a few of the key words and phrases above the JPG, or PDF that contains the hand-written note. There are very few instances where the entire handwritten note has to be transcribed word for word. The purpose is to be able to search for the note and key-typed words help a lot. Once the note is located, then one can spend more time deciphering the hand-written information. Link to comment
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