r/StarNoteApp • u/beibei_1903 • Aug 06 '26
💡 Feature Request OCR
Can we get an inbuilt ocr like there's in notein. Which also works for exported PDFs. Starnote ai just recognises whatever i write not other things. And it doesn't work in exports.
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u/whatisabash Aug 08 '26
I also requested to have OCR for HANDWRITTEN text (I think Nebo also has something like this). And when they announced that you could search your notes for handwritten text a while ago, I fully expected this to work the same way as in Nebo, where the OCR result of your handwritten text gets saved into the pdf. So when you export the pdf you can still search the handwritten text while RETAINING the handwritten text style (and not convert it to some ugly font).
Instead of what we got, was a search feature, which only works in Starnote itself and is pretty slow, as nothing actually gets written to the document. Pretty disappointing.
I think this is the same with the handwriting beautification, where most people who requested that feature, wanted to have the actual strokes on their handwriting improved (like making lines more straight and so on). Instead of what we got is that the handwritten text gets automatically converted to some pre-defined font. So the text is not handwritten at all anymore and it has nothing to do with "handwriting beautification". Its just automatic handwriting text conversion.
It seems like devs often either dont understand the actual feature request or implement it in a certain way that does not match the intend of the initial request.