This app is only available on the App Store for iOS devices.

• Handwriting Recognition Iphone
• Mac Handwriting Recognition Software

If your Mac is set to English, for example, Notability looks for English in your notes. Changing the Recognition Language for All Notes. Click 'Notability Preferences' in your Mac's menu bar. Click 'General'. Click the 'Handwriting Language' drop-down menu. Click your preferred language. This changes the recognition language for new notes. Chances are pretty good that up until now, you had no idea that there is a built-in application on Macs that is capable of pretty decent handwriting recognition. The application, called Inkwell, is built into the Mac operating system and is shown only if you have a graphics tablet plugged into your computer. Handwriting to text is best in Notes Plus. Selecting which pages to import is also nice. Being able to see more pages than notability is nice. The search feature is one of the main reasons notability is the best college app, and the file organization is great. Good notes has one feature I love. Chances are pretty good that up until now, you had no idea that there is a built-in application on Macs that is capable of pretty decent handwriting recognition. The application, called Inkwell, is built into the Mac operating system and is shown only if you have a graphics tablet plugged into your computer.

Best Handwriting Recognition Apps. The following apps can automatically recognize and digitize your handwritten scrawl. Some of the simple apps are free, some operate with integrated keyboards, while others carry in-app purchases or fees, or owe their talents to the MyScript AI handwriting recognition and digital ink management engine. If your Mac is set to English, for example, Notability looks for English in your notes. Changing the Recognition Language for All Notes. Click 'Notability Preferences' in your Mac's menu bar. Click 'General'. Click the 'Handwriting Language' drop-down menu. Click your preferred language. This changes the recognition language for new notes.

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Description

Nebo is where work begins. Nebo lets you write, draw, edit and structure your notes. Convert them into digital documents or copy/paste parts to or from any other app.
Attending a meeting or a conference? Having new ideas to jot down? Starting a new project? Capturing relevant ideas and information is essential. Nebo will always be there to help you be more productive, day after day.
CAPTURE IDEAS AND INFORMATION IN ANY SITUATION
• Use your Apple Pencil or Logitech Crayon to take notes.
• Draw sketches or interactive diagrams to quickly write down ideas and develop them further. You can also easily annotate images.
• Easily switch between your Apple Pencil and your keyboard, and take your notes even faster.
EDIT AND TRANSFORM IN NO TIME
• Structure your notes with paragraphs and bulleted lists. Create titles and highlight text using intuitive gestures.
• Convert your handwriting with confidence using the most powerful recognition engine.
• Complete your document by pasting text copied from other apps.
SHARE AND REUSE EASILY
• Publish your notes on nebo.app to be viewed from anywhere.
• Convert your note instantly into Word, text, PDF or HTML format. Copy/paste fully editable diagrams to PowerPoint or as images to other apps.
• Store your notebooks in collections and search for handwritten ink and typed text across all notes in your library.
** Best App 2017 CES Mobile Apps Showdown **
** Featured by Apple as 'Perfect with Apple Pencil' **
** For note takers with needs that go beyond the basic — Techradar, 2019 **
*** Detailed feature list ***
• Edit and format with your pen* — Write, add or remove content and space, decorate and apply styles using MyScript Interactive Ink technology.
• Switch between pen and keyboard — Add content or edit existing text with your keyboard, whether it is handwritten or converted. Select and copy/paste text in Nebo or to any other app.
• Create interactive diagrams — Copy/paste fully editable diagrams to PowerPoint or as images to other apps.
• Draw free elements — Sketch freely in your note.
• Annotate pictures — Add an image from Photos or a picture from your camera and use your pen to annotate them.
• Work with smart math — Develop your handwritten equations and matrices across several lines. Solve your calculations. Copy them as LaTeX or as images.
• Auto-layout — The page expands as you write and reflows the text to preserve the optimal size for any screen width.
• Paste external text — Copy/paste text from any app. You can even add it inside your handwritten paragraphs.
• Manage your notes — Organize your pages in notebooks and collections. Move your notes from one notebook or collection to another, in the most intuitive and fluid manner.
• Search — Find handwritten ink and text across all notes in your library, including in your diagrams.
• Export — Decide where to take your notes next: Export pages as Word (.docx), text, PDF or HTML.
• Publish your pages - Share your notes on nebo.app. Limit access to a list of contacts or allow anyone to view your note.
• Sync — Sync your notes with iCloud, Google Drive or Dropbox. Requires a free MyScript account.
*An official Apple Pencil or Logitech Crayon is required to handwrite in Nebo.

What’s New

** Publish **
Share your notes on nebo.app. Limit access to a list of contacts or allow anyone to view your note.
Also in Nebo 2.4:
*** Insider program ***
We've been crafting a few more innovative new features. Get an early preview by checking them out in the Insider program:
** Draft **
Create sections to quickly mix all kinds of content. Copy it later to any page or other apps.
** Lasso **
Quickly and precisely select content to move, resize or copy it.
Make sure to sign in with your MyScript account, then go to 'Settings > Insider program' to enable these features.
Check our knowledge base to know more.
Thanks for helping us make Nebo even better!

Our iPad Pro becomes an awesome on-the-fly notepad with this app built specifically for Apple Pencil. With a few taps and strokes, we can format handwritten text as titles, paragraphs, or bulletpoints. And creating diagrams or marking up photos? Dead simple. Ah, the simple joy of taking old-fashioned notes—and decorating the page with random doodles!

Good handwriting recognition; still needs a couple things to be GREAT

I tried out this app and GoodNotes, and ultimately this one won out because it works so much better for the way I want to write. I didn’t have to adapt very much to get this app to work for me. I take tons of lecture notes and I needed something searchable that allowed me to write as quickly as I hear it and have the app recognize what I’m writing. The handwriting recognition is pretty remarkable, especially taking into account just how bad my handwriting is.
That said, this app isn’t GREAT. It is missing two pretty key and important and basic tools that may shorten the amount of time I use it. One: there is no copy/paste feature, either of what I’ve written or what I found elsewhere to add to my notes. I have to write in everything from URLs to text from web pages to bits of other notes. That’s really annoying. Two: I can’t type in this app. I would like to be able to add a text box and type in it sometimes.
The addition of those two tools would make this app one of the better app experiences you’ll find *period*. But as is, it’s still darn good and well worth the money.

Works OK as a stand alone app, sync needs work though

The handwriting recognition works as well as any app I’ve tried on an iPad Pro. But the lack of iCloud sync is a big inconvenience. If you have your other Apple devices set up to use iCloud sync, then Nebo's separate “cloud sync”is a cumbersome set of extra steps, requiring additional user IDs/accounts, and external services that would all be seamless if the app just supported iCloud. Disappointing for an otherwise well-designed app.
The other SERIOUS gap in this app’s capabilities is that it does not seem to be compatible with any Bluetooth keyboard. This prevents NEBO from being a single app for all note-taking needs. With the way I use my iPad Pro, I take notes BOTH with the Apple Pencil, and sometimes with the IOS on-screen keyboard and sometimes with a separate Bluetooth keyboard, depending on the setting I am in at the time. This app does not support anything other than handwriting input. So you will still need another vendor’s note-taking app (like Evernote, OneNote, or Apple’s IOS Notes to make your iPad a true notebook replacement. Too bad, because if NEBO simply added these other input options, it would be all many people would need for note taking (other than perhaps a dedicated sketching app if artistic drawing is a requirement)

Developer Response,

Hi Slimbergh, thanks for your interest in Nebo. Here is Nebo April release (1.9): many of you asked for more Cloud services. We’ve added iСloud for iOS & Google Drive for iOS & Windows. Please note that we sync with iCloud: notes you sync will not be visible in iCloud Drive. Neither Google Drive. Thanks also for your other feedback. Enjoy Nebo with iCloud! Nat from MyScript

Our iPad Pro becomes an awesome on-the-fly notepad with this app built specifically for Apple Pencil. With a few taps and strokes, we can format handwritten text as titles, paragraphs, or bulletpoints. And creating diagrams or marking up photos? Dead simple. Ah, the simple joy of taking old-fashioned notes—and decorating the page with random doodles!

Information

Requires iOS 11.0 or later. Compatible with iPad.

English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese

Supports

• Family Sharing

  With Family Sharing set up, up to six family members can use this app.

Nebo is a digital notetaking app that was created by MyScript to showcase its handwriting recognition technology known as Ink. The app is iPad-only because it requires an Apple Pencil for input. Nebo can also convert hand-drawn diagrams and mathematical equations and embed photos and sketches within notes. I’ve been using Nebo to research this review and the accuracy of its handwriting recognition is remarkable. Nebo is a solid notetaking tool. It lacks a few features that would make it more competitive with notetaking apps that have been around longer, but the handwriting recognition is so good, that Nebo has become my default notetaking app.

Like many other notetaking apps, Nebo is divided into a series of notebooks. The screen is divided into two parts. On the left side is a sidebar for navigating from top-level folders, to notebooks, to individual pages within each notebook. On the right-hand side is the currently selected page.

Unlike some notetaking apps where a page is limited to the viewable screen, a page in Nebo can scroll endlessly. The flexibility is nice, but one page on an iPad Pro 12.9-inch screen in portrait is usually enough for me. Additional pages are added from the sidebar by tapping the plus icon.

It also includes a module to generate purchase orders, capture and track repairs, track inventory and products by SKU, and by serial numbers.It allows multiple payments per order, and multiple payment types, including credit cards, cash, checks, gift cards, and others.

Nebo’s Ink handwriting recognition system is the standout feature of the app. Its accuracy is truly astounding given that it doesn’t require you to alter your handwriting. In fact, in the example notebook/user guide that comes with the app, most of the handwriting is written in cursive. I don’t write in cursive, but over the years my handwriting has evolved to where certain letter combinations run together. Even when I wrote in a deliberately sloppy way, I had a hard time fooling Nebo.

In addition to recognizing your handwriting, Nebo has formatting smarts. It can create bulleted lists with a variety of bullet symbols. Double-underlining a line creates an H1 heading. Underlining part of a line makes it bold and drawing a box around text highlights it in yellow. There are even gestures for splitting and joining lines and words by drawing a vertical line in the right place.

Editing notes.

Converting handwriting to text is simple. Just double tap and the conversion is nearly instantaneous. The process is fast because Nebo is doing the recognition on the fly. As you write, the words Nebo detects are displayed in light grey text above the line of the page on which you are writing. The grey text allows you to monitor Nebo’s accuracy as you write. If Nebo does get something wrong, tapping the grey text brings up a popup with other possible words which makes corrections fast and easy. The real-time recognition of your handwriting also means that you can perform searches of your handwritten notes without converting them to text.

After text has been converted to text by double tapping, you can double tap it again, which makes the text bigger and editable. Editing is done in handwriting even though the text has been converted, which I didn’t expect, but makes sense because you are already using the Apple Pencil.

The tools and features of Nebo are accessed from a custom tab bar found in the navigation bar of the app. The Pen section includes a pen in eight colors of ink with six stroke widths and an eraser. Erasing text can also be accomplished by simply scratching words out with the Apple Pencil, which is faster than switching tools for making small changes.

Adding and marking up photos.

Handwriting Recognition Iphone

The ‘Add’ section lets you add photos, sketches, diagrams, and math equations to your notes. Photos can be annotated, but not resized or otherwise edited, so if you need to edit one, do it before bringing an image into Nebo. Sketches create a resizeable rectangle in which you can draw with any of the pen tools.

Diagrams and Math Equations are another great showcase of the Ink technology. Tapping either creates a resizable rectangular canvas. With a diagram, you can draw shapes, connect them with lines or arrows, and add handwritten labels. When you’re finished, double tap and the diagram transforms your handwriting into neatly drawn shapes, straight lines, and text. Math Equations does the same thing, but can handle complex equations and math symbols.

Converting math equations.

Despite the excellent handwriting recognition, Nebo falls short in a few places as a notetaking app. I’d like to be able to swipe between pages instead of going back to the sidebar. There should also be a way to create sub-bullets in a bulleted list with proper indentation. Currently, Nebo creates bulleted lists with only one level that is even with the left hand margin of the document. Finally, I would like to be able to pick a custom ink color and use a slider to pick a specific stroke size. With the possible exception of proper indentation in bulleted lists, which is important when taking notes, I wouldn’t really consider any of these criticisms misses for a version 1.0 product. Instead, they are things I would like to see added as refinements as the product is updated.

I am blown away by the quality of the handwriting recognition in Nebo. It’s by far the best I’ve seen in any app. I could easily see writing some posts for MacStories in Nebo. What’s remarkable is that the limiting factor in doing so is not the handwriting recognition, it’s that I can type faster than I can write and prefer handwriting for shorter pieces, which is why Nebo is wisely positioned as a notetaking app and not a text editor. Instead, I find myself sketching out ideas in Nebo and appreciate the ability to take any part of what I write, copy it as text and use it elsewhere. If you take notes and have ever wanted to search or copy them as text for use in an email or other documents, give Nebo a try.

Mac Handwriting Recognition Software

Nebo is available on the App Store as a free download for a limited time.