Rocketbook OCR: turn your Rocketbook pages into text, or into one Word file

How Rocketbook transcription works

1. Scan the page. Tap the camera button on the app's Home screen and keep the whole page, black border included, in view. The app captures it on its own[2].
2. Tap Continue. This opens the Scan Detail screen, where you send the scans[2].
3. Tap Transcribe. The app shows the scan or the transcription, and you can edit the text, copy it or transcribe again[1].

Rocketbook says transcription is optimized for English, recognizes other languages too, and gives better results on print than on cursive[1]. When you use the OCR features, scans are uploaded to Google Cloud Platform for transcribing[3].

Where does the transcription go?

Turn on OCR Transcription for a destination and the text travels with the scan[1].

Email

The transcription as an attachment or in the body of the email[1]

Google Drive, OneNote

Scan and transcription as one file or as separate files[1]

Evernote

OCR Transcription is available[4]

File types for the scan

JPG, PDF or GIF, depending on the destination[4]

The ## Meeting Notes ## trick is a different feature. Smart Titles reads the words between two pairs of hashtags and uses them as the file name[5]. Smart Search makes your scans searchable inside the app's My Scans list[6].

When a transcription is not enough

Rocketbook's transcription is text that sits next to a scan, in the app, in an email or in a cloud folder[1]. That suits a to-do list or a quick search. A study guide, a lab report or a set of notes for a group needs a document, with the headings, lists and tables you drew kept in place and every page in one file. That is the job of the route below.

Turn a Rocketbook notebook into one Word file

1. Bundle the scans as one PDF. Turn on Bundle Scans so pages scanned together come out as one document, and choose PDF for the destination[4].
2. Send it to yourself. Email or Google Drive both work. Save the PDF to your phone or computer.
3. Upload the PDF to LoreAI. The free tool on this page reads page 1. The LoreAI app reads every page.
4. Download the Word file. Every page is typed out in order, with headings, lists and hand-drawn tables in place.

LoreAI reads print and cursive, and the app also translates, so notes in Spanish come back as an English Word file. Your first document is free, up to 3 pages and 3 MB.

Rocketbook transcription or a Word file?

Keep scanning with the Rocketbook app as usual. LoreAI picks up after the scan.

Other ways to digitize handwritten notes

For paper notes from any notebook, see digitizing handwritten notes. For notes taken during class, see lecture notes to Word, and for notes written on an iPad, Apple Notes handwriting to text.

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