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Originally Posted by komali_2
Right, OCR / handwriting conversion is a whole different issue. You don't get that for epub notes in boox, for example.
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I don't think Nebo (Kobo, Android, Mac, Windows, iOS) uses OCR.
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Originally Posted by komali_2
There's still plenty of people that want this usecase. For those of us that liked taking pencil notes in hardcopy books, and then would transcribe those notes into other systems (2), being able to do the same in epubs would be nice to have (1). I'm already doing the same anyway for annotation notes in epubs, because they're all over the place and usually super brief anyway. Furthermore, writing by hand improves recollection, creativity, etc(3).
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1) The Kobo Sage & Elipsa allow Stylus for handwritten notes in epub and PDF, there is just no conversion.
The Libra 2 seemingly could do it (but doesn't) as the digitizer is present and works with Kobo/MS compatible Pen in Sketchpad.
2) Nebo conversion (Kobo Advanced Notepad) beats my own, my daughter and son's interpretation of handwriting the next day for conversion/transcription to text. Don't knock it till you tried it on up to date FW. But sadly it's not available for epub or pdf annotation, though the Pen does work for handwritten notes
3) If you convert handwriting, you still did it and typing may work as well or better than handwriting for recollection. But I like the Advanced Notebook because writing a page is faster with the pen than touch keyboard. Annotations are fine typed as they are a big highlight and only a few words.
I used handwriting and then later transcription from about 1980 to 1995. 1995 to 2000 was a mixture, then the laptop keyboard was good and I only typed other than short notes.
When I got Jota on an smartphone with a 4.3″ Android 5 I almost stopped handwriting, but still did some and bought notebooks.
Then I got the Elipsa. Two weeks later I bought the Sage as a far better size (8″) for epubs and writing scraps of stories in the Advanced Notebook. Since then I only have the very occasional one word or part number or password temporarily on a Post-It note.
I stopped printing paper proofs and other text when I got my first 300 dpi ereader; I "print" to ebook. I even copy/paste webpages to LO Writer, edit in odt, extra SaveAs in docx and conversion to azw3 originally, then epub when I got an original Kobo H20.
I had an Oasis gen 2 and a reMarkable till recently which is why I didn't buy a Kindle Scribe. Going from 227 dpi to 300dpi and having no local control of annotation, broken series and broken collections and poorer support from Calibre and annotations seemed a bad idea.
I still have the Amazon Kindles: PW3, KK3 and DXG for testing mobi & azw3 & KFX and Amazon ebook purchases.