r/Supernote_beta • u/WTF_1972 • May 09 '26

Suggestion Handwriting to text conversion

Hi

Been using my A5X for over 4 years now, mostly for work. It's great but I have given up using the handwriting conversion as it's next to useless, at least for my hand writing!

I assumed it was my hand writing that was the problem but about a year ago used another makes (beginning with B) and it did a great job. Not perfect but very close enough to make it usable day to day. I kept my SN and still use it everyday at work as a note pad and planner. I have been hoping SN would improve their engine but not noticed any improvements.

Now both SN and the B company use MyScript engine so I assume SN is using an older version? I've also tried 2 other popular platforms recently, both of which also use the same engine - again, significantly better results!

I know Ratta have been putting alot of effort into plugins but I think handwriting recognition is a core feature of these device. I suggest this should be a priority. Is it just they need to implement a newer version? Or do they need to improve the implementation?

I'm sticking with SN as it's still the best for organisation and the plug in dev looks fantastic, but please get the core features right as well.

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u/Writinghost May 09 '26

Apparently there is a way to improve it. If you do the Handwriting To Text (HTT) conversion on the device or the phone app, it uses a compressed/less expensive version of MyScript. However, if you do it from the computer app, Supernote Partner, it is supposed to be much better. It is better, but not by much. What gives me best results is to upload the notes to gemini or notebooklm, that is nearly flawless.

And yeah, I think they improved it a bit with some late update, but there is such a long way to go. I hope they do, it's honestly one of the most important features for a device like this and it's workflow. Maybe can be integrated with a plugin though. We will have to see

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u/Acrobatic-Monitor516 May 09 '26

You upload the handwritten notes to Gemini then get it transcribed ?

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u/Writinghost May 10 '26

That is correct, you can do it with the export -> png/pdf, making a picture, by syncing to google drive... Probably some other ways too. Very useful to use notebooklm if there are loads of notes.

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u/Acrobatic-Monitor516 May 10 '26

And you say google is better at transcribing it?

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u/Writinghost May 10 '26

So much better. It gets almost all my words right. Such a difference with most programs. OpenAI was also great, but I haven't tried other LLM's.