What can I search?

Goodnotes makes it easy to find your notes with handwriting and text search. Here's what you can search:

• Handwriting created with the Pen Tool.

  <aside> ℹ️ The app can currently recognize handwriting in the following languages:

  • Chinese (Traditional / Simplified)
  • Dutch
  • English (US/UK)
  • French
  • German
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Portuguese (PT/BR)
  • Russian
  • Spanish
  • Thai
  • Turkish </aside>

• Typed text created with the Text Tool or Typing Mode.

• Text in imported PDFs.

  <aside> ℹ️ Only PDFs that include an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) layer are searchable. PDFs created digitally, for example from word processors, almost always include an OCR layer. PDFs created from physical documents or books through a PDF-scanning app might also have OCR performed on them and might be searchable. Goodnotes does not perform OCR on PDFs so your imported documents will need an existing OCR layer in order to be searchable.

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• Text on pages scanned with the Scan Documents feature.

• Document outlines.

• Titles of folders and documents.

Search a document

<aside> ➡️ See Search the document.

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Search the library

<aside> ➡️ See Search Tab.

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Convert handwriting

<aside> ➡️ To convert handwriting to text, see Convert the selected handwriting to typed text. To convert handwritten math to a math object (LaTeX), see Math Conversion.

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Configure handwriting recognition

<aside> ➡️ See Handwriting Recognition.

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