Notepad OCR App?

[SSzretter]

Can anyone recommend a decent notepad type app that will recognize handwriting and/or printing and translate to text/word document (OCR) ?

 

[sjleworthy]

Surprisingly at this moment there's a considerable gap in that market. I too have wanted this and my research didn't yield an app worth a punt as they stand unfortunately. My opinion of course.

 

[Tim SPRACKLEN]

WritePad gets good mention from several members - check it out in the App Store.

Tim

 

[DontUnderstandMyIpad]

There is another iPhone app 'image to text- ocr', which does the recognition for images. You either choose an image from the Camera Roll, or take a picture from within the app.

The converted text can either be send via email or is directly imported into your evernote account.

I wouldn't say the app is great, it misses an option to just copy the text right after conversion, but it works and is free.

 

[Hasty]

Evernote will try to index handwritten notes.
Just noticed something about integration with evernote in Penultimate's upgrade notes this morning but have been too lazy to check it out yet.

 

[haggisgirl]

I use WritePad for notetaking and am very happy with it. It seems the more I use it, the more it must "learn" my handwriting because I have dreadful handwriting. It makes the ocassional error but correcting is easy. I don't have a need for an OCR app so can't recommend anything there. Good luck.

 

[owsc2010]

Writepad is great. If you want more functions such as insert pictures, recording etc, you may try Phatpad from the same developer.

 

[ChemoSabe]

+1 for Writepad.

The handwriting recognition is very good if you write large and slow. Like you were taught in 2nd-3rd grade. And it gets better the more you use it.