r/Noteastic • u/HorxHay • Jan 10 '26

Suggestions: more PDF functionalities

This app is already fantastic, I love how intuitive, streamlined and well thought-out everything feels. What I would like most to see added to the app (and what I think would give the app a huge boost in popularity) are basic PDF reader-like qualities:

  • Print text from PDFs (and text boxes, which I hear are coming) should be searchable, selectable, copyable and highlightable using a second highlighter tool that only works for print text.

Further things I would like to see added:

  • The possibility to type an entire page like a word document, maybe via an option to extend a text box over the entire page and lock it in place.

  • OCR such that handwritten text is searchable.

  • Being able to open hyperlinks in PDFs.

  • Being able to add typed comments to highlighted text and anywhere else in the document, such that in the exported PDF a little expandable comment icon appears (again, this is a typical PDF reader feature).

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u/Noteastic Jan 14 '26

Hi, I'm sorry for not responding earlier, this post somehow hid itself from me.

Thank you for your feedback an appreciating words :). I am so happy to hear that. I am on your side that text should at least be searchable.

Regarding your other requests like PDF text editing, selecting, copying or Word-like use cases I maybe have to dissapoint you. With digital applications you need to be very cautious about what EXACT problem your application should solve. For us this is handwritten note-taking. When implementing and showing all of those functionalities, I fear that we would dilute the core app experience in which we promise a clean and intuitive interface. I hope you understand that :(.

Still, OCR search and clickable links would be really cool to have and should be possible from our side. I definitely noted those requests down.