How to Convert Handwritten Notes to Digital Notes

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Reasons for converting analog notes to digital notes

If the note you've written is important, you don't want to lose it. So you should convert the note into a digital note and store it on your computer and/or in the cloud (iCloud, Google Drive, etc.). Also, by converting the notes to digital notes, you'll be able to search for terms in your notes.

Analog to Image

Some methods described below simply take a photo of your hand-written note and convert them to a photo (jpg) or a PDF file. If you want to be able to search the text of your notes, you'll need a method that converts your notes into digital text. (See the next section, Analog to Text.)

Analog to Text

If you want to be able to search your notes for specific words or phrases, you need to convert your hand-written notes to text. The ability of a method to do this is called Optical Character Recognition (OCR).

Use an iPad App

Some iPad apps let you take notes within the app using a stylus (e.g., Apple Pen) and then they'll convert your handwritten notes to text. Here's a list of apps that do that:

Use the website, ChatGPT

Use a scanning app

Mobile Apps that let you Take Notes