How To Series, Remarkable: Convert To Text Best Practices

[@hamthelad]

Thank you for uploading your informative video, so much better than the others I found first.

[@harinos]

I just wish it was able to index your handwritten notes for easy searching like the Onyx software does.

[@ae-ou9dl]

That's one of my biggest gripes with the rM. It's very hard to find things back what you've written. There's not even a tagging feature. If they would add instant hw recogn. with search the rM would be such a powerful tool. It's a computer not paper ;)

[@fredericx811]

I bought a remarkable 2 yesterday and am just waiting for delivery. I'm a writer and always write the first version of my books by hand, so for me, the handwriting recognition is the first asset of this device. I hope to save months and months of typing (years altogether !). My Question is: does this application adapt to the user's personal handwriting with time? It would be great if we could create a profile by just writing a specific text with all letters / symbols in it, so that the program would know what is what, at least for us.

[@rickflippin1]

Had to sub thank you !!!

[@starroger]

Great video series! These “How To” mini tutorials are very helpful. Some questions: How does rM handle converting contractions (i.e. won’t can’t, I’ll, we’ll)? Or acronyms? Is bold, italic and underline a keyboard edit after handwriting conversion? Does the rM have other keyboard options for superscript, subscript, and mathematical symbols beyond - = +? Or do we have to write SQ SQRT, SUM etc.? Final question, really an expansion of the previous question (please forgive if you have already covered this in a previous review). Does rM have different keyboard options say like a calculator app that has options for basic calculator, scientific calc, financial calc, etc.?

[@InstantTutor]

When converting to text, I wish they allowed the user to ringfence items that they didn't wish converted to text, allowing for a mix of a convert to text and graphics.

[@AAMREX]

Amazingly useful!!! Well Done!

[@denisepinet9472]

Thank you for the video. I was having problems with numbers for my genealogy and it was making it into one line when it should've been 2.

[@mohammedsaid7763]

Thank you! Well done!

[@emanuelgunnarsson231]

Hi Voja! Love your videos and they make me want to get my reMarkable2 now now now! Anyway, I have two questions: about sub- and super-script. What would happen if you write ”x^2” or ”x_2”? The other question: In a document, can you choose to convert a specific page or does it take the whole document? Cheers!

[@davidvvassallo]

It's a shame it can't recognize mathametical symbol, since thats one of the real hassles of having to use a computer to type your notes.

[@joshuahargreavesmassage]

Could you annotate on a PDF and have that handwriting convert to text?

[@lloydsofmemphis]

I enjoy the videos. My question is. When making a list of items with a column for prices. How do you space over and keep the Columns aligned? Thanks

[@MyDeepGuide]

On any other device, I would suggest that you make your own template and use that, but unfortunately on the Remarkable that is not possible. Instead, you can make a template and export it as a PDF file (single or multi page, it's up to you), and then use that as a template for your prices.

[@jips123]

Thanks! Nice tips.

[@chandralivingston4975]

Great video ! Wondering...is there a way to covert script to text, edit the text for clarity if needed, and then instead of emailing it, have that text replace the script and save that text on the Remarkable2 pad?

[@StjepanWerft]

Great tips! At their web, ReMarkable states that the device can recognize 33 languages. Have you tried any other language than English?

[@supersaiyingoku]

So far so good, i test in dutch. It was oke. I didnt test greater text. But I will test and see how it work. For now, dutch work fine for me.

[@Mandomerc17]

I see he mentioned cursive lettering @ 2:08 However, does the device recognize full on cursive style script? there was only a couple instances of cursive letterings in the example shown which was mixed with print. Thank you!

[@aemilia5799]

Yes, it does. It recognizes and correctly converts my Spencerian script cursive handwriting.

[@beatakoreny3252]

Thank you for this. It was very useful. :)

[@roadxoverland2917]

When you wrote the three separate lines, it combined the tow bottom sentences instead of leaving them on their own lines. Why? Also, how could you have fixed that after it was converted? Is there an "Enter" or something that would push the third sentence down to the next line? By the way mine should be arriving in the last week of November. Oh, one more thing... My intention is to write notes, then convert and send to my laptop. Can they be saved as a text or Word document to be edited on the laptop?

[@MyDeepGuide]

Conversion can only be done when sending to email. Converted text can't be saved locally. When you convert the text, you can use the keyboard to format the converted text and correct the results, so yes, you can use Enter to separate the paragraphs.

[@roadxoverland2917]

@@MyDeepGuide I wish they had Airdrop... but that would require Bluetooth, which they also don't have, which is really pretty basic these days. I appreciate your answer.

[@desertboots4666]

@My Deep Guide, I have the same question - why did the conversion to text change the original layout, bumping a line up to run on from the previous line - what if I wanted to make a list (sans bullets)? Would using a grid template, rather than just lined (notebook), lock the writing / text in place after the conversion?

[@marioserodotou2958]

2 things is that they need to get right here. Add symbols, add bolder letters, add underline, search notes chosen 2 languages to translate instead of only one. All these should be possible especially fi the processing is happening on the cloud. Also they should allow you to remove their marketing signature from the email.

[@pa-tremblay]

What about recognizing others languages like French as examples. Witch tablets doing better for it?

[@nicolasclassens1603]

hi thanks for the the how to videos. Just got my RM2. I wanted to use the convert to text to share minutes from meetings but when converting common names, it replaces them. E.G. "Asto Shop" which is name of the shop is converted to "As to shop". Please tell me there is a way to use common names :) Tried "" but didn't change anything. Also when converting to text, the template is not kept.

[@LMWHE]

Love your videos! Do you plan on reviewing the Supernote A6X at any point?

[@MyDeepGuide]

Yes! I got a review unit today, do that is coming soon too :)

[@madalinam7137]

I would be interested, if one writes text and equations in between text, is remarkable2 able to convert the text and leave the equations unchanged between the text lines, given that it is not able to convert all sorts of physics-related equations? I personally would really need a feature like this. I am planning to order remarkable2 and I am highly excited about this and I want to know more about its capabilities. Thank you for the review on the tablet, they helped me with my decision :)

[@MrGCBrown]

Can the remarkable recognize MarkDown or Latex?

[@yoshi.jeje_StructuralEngineer]

Should be great recognise Latex and even can do calculation

[@swisspeedy]

I plan to use it for MarkDown syntax as well. Should be working fine from what I researched on the net. At least for the basic stuff like highlights, citations, headings... since it recognizes -#*>~[]() just fine from what I have read.

[@swisspeedy]

@My Deep Guide may you per chance test this? If you can't find out, nobody probably will. It would be really helpful! I'm planning to use my reMarkable 2 mainly for book summaries and gathering what's in my head. Since I use Obsidian as my knowledge base it would be totally awesome if users can write basic MarkDown syntax on the lovely device and later on import it in the knowledge base without having to format again.

[@MrGCBrown]

@@swisspeedy this makes me happy :)

[@MyDeepGuide]

@swisspeedy Sure! Give me a syntax example you would like me to try out, so that I can try out exactly what you're interested in and then we can see what it spits out :)

[@alexen05gamer85]

Hi your tutorial allways great good job. Question you have made a very good calendar I use it my wish is to use also the functions handwritten convert to Text and send some notes to Mail. But the converting option is not available when I work with the calendar? Is this not possible to do it will help a lot in the daily work Regards Freddy

[@MyDeepGuide]

Thank you :) I will assume that you are using Remarkable as a platform. In that case it's not possible to do text conversion, because Remarkable doesn't support that with handwritten notes in a document. However, you can select the notes you want to convert, copy them to a notebook and convert there. That workflow, I haven't tried, but it might work :)

[@butz182]

Can Remarkable 2 bold text OR underline or other things? I have a paper notebook that does it with #word# for uploading into evernote. I just wondered if this can do the same.

[@leroyjones9596]

Voja, I need help converting poetry to text. the machine ignores line breaks and stanzas, and punctuation. If this is insurmountable, it is a deal breaker. Thanks for your expertise.

[@nevillefernandes]

Thanks Voja for the tips! I saw that the text 'recognize' was converted to -ize version in one line and -ise in another. Does this have to do with recognition vs prediction in the software ?

[@abdulla6741]

I use Obsidian to manage my knowledge. Can Remarkable understand Markdown? This will be a game-changer.

[@MyDeepGuide]

I have never used it, but I have tried some syntax, and noting. It just converts letters and symbols, doesn't interpret them in any way.

[@JamesSmith-fm8xg]

thanks for the video. Do you know if you can convert files to text once synced onto your desktop app? I cannot work out how to do this. I can see that you "send" the converted txt via Remarkable email but I cannot work out if once synced, you can convert writing to txt on the desktop app which would be much easier and very convenient

[@MyDeepGuide]

No, but there are many other programs that can do text analysis and conversion, from PDFs. You should do a search on that and find the best one for your needs and platform.

[@skyhawk3090]

I would suggest something feasible. Why not develop an algorithm that starts learning (recognizing) your handwriting? Meanwhile your tips are more than welcomed. Good Luck!

[@jamessherburn]

Hi, is it better at recognising symbols yet?

[@joshtaton8986]

I just bought this and I do love it, but I would like to be able to convert something to text without sending. So essentially write notes, convert to text when Im done and save on the notebook replacing the handwritten note that I converted. Is this not a function on the reMarkable? Seems odd that you only have one option and that is to send.

[@joshtaton8986]

also, thanks for the videos they are helpful :)

[@david7550]

Watching this in 2024 after remarkable released their pro tablet. I wonder how much more accurate is the handwriting recognition?

[@KiloOneThree]

So...it’s a combination of letter recognition and predictive text if the writing is not too clear? 🤔

[@MyDeepGuide]

It seems like it's a combination of autocorrect and predictive text that is applied after the initial conversion. That would make sense why it requires the device to be online when doing the text conversion.

[@SpiritThroughSteel]

Is it possible to save handwriting to text on the device? I want to convert files to text but NOT send them as an email.

[@MyDeepGuide]

No, that's not possible at the moment.

[@johnschmidt4949]

This is a feature everyone wants. So sensible. At minimum it seems they could allow one to block and copy and paste the converted text in the box presented before you send it via email.

[@thomaspfister3826]

I plan to use the ReMarkable device in a multi-language environment. Is it possible to convert a text with sentences in different languages correctly?

[@Nekotaku_TV]

No. That is so bad. You can only convert one language at a time. But you can’t even save the converted text.

[@LucaRovariss]

With the new software upgrade nothing change???

[@pcfirebeats]

Can you tell me if it is possible, or easy, to write a multipage essay for colege on Remarkable?

[@MissMerediana]

not really as you can only send those converted texts via mail (not possible to save them as pdf) which really, really sucks

[@dfc0868]

I think the greek symbols work if you change the language converter

[@frednoce3043]

Am I correct in assuming that it is possible to add shapes and/or symbols to your notes after your writing is converted to text?

[@MyDeepGuide]

No. It's converted into a text format. No further writing is possible, just typing text.

[@biggsterboy]

As several have mentioned, the ability to convert text and *save* on the device is an important need (and huge miss for Remarkable). Example: being required to email the converted text is a problem in which the content is sensitive/confidential information. Any chance that Remarkable will figure this out?

[@MyDeepGuide]

Considering they haven't added bookmarking to documents in 3 years and what their latest updates offer, I'm not so sure it's something that will happen soon.

[@Lilli_Jay]

I don't know how much this happens, but maybe if you have a lot of Greek letters in your notes, start a new page where you write those down, set the device to Greek language and convert that page separately. But I doubt that's a useful or highly needed workaround.

[@MyDeepGuide]

Not useful if writing physics where use of greek letters is a normal.

[@reabnja]

I just got my Remarkable today and I'm some disappointed about what I can do with the recognized text. Why can't I save it as a normal textfile on my Remarkable in a separate folder. That just an easy task I think, but why is it not supported?

[@MyDeepGuide]

Maybe they think it would be a distraction? Who knows. A lot of their decisions lately are quite baffling...

[@VREDANZ]

How are deleting the typed text

[@Snow3573]

Once the writing is converted, the typed text has to be sent out as an email right? Is there a way to save the converted text?

[@MyDeepGuide]

No, there's no way to save the text onto the device. It can only be sent out as the email body in a typed form.

[@Snow3573]

My Deep Guide Okay. Thanks for replying.

[@Nekotaku_TV]

Snowflake It’s so sad.

[@BlackfeatherTanfur]

From what I can tell, you can't edit uploaded handwriting documents? And also you can't OCR them, either, from what I can tell. :(

[@jankocyfrant931]

Hi Everybody, is there a similar video on Boox Note text convertion on the Voy’a channel? I believe I saw it in the past but could not find it today. Would you be so kind and share the link? I’d like to send it to a new user of Boox Note who is struggling with that. Thanks in advance!

[@Nekotaku_TV]

What about the second version of 4?!

[@MyDeepGuide]

What about it?

[@forpascal5890]

Once the writing has been converted to text, how can you edit the text to fix the remaining mistaked?

[@MyDeepGuide]

Simply by tapping anywhere on the text, the keyboard will appear and you can type, add spaces, paragraphs, correct mistakes, etc.

[@semperfitdeliis]

how can you permanently convert handwriting to text and save it. The only option is to send. I am missing something?

[@MyDeepGuide]

Unfortunately that's not possible on the rM platform.

[@ketilitek]

I recognise that there's no autocorrect on the spelling though. ;-) (On its own analysis of the text, that is..)

[@MyDeepGuide]

Not really, it consistently corrected my "recogniZe" into recognise ;)

[@aemilia5799]

That isn't cursive.