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.
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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.
<aside> ➡️ See Search the document.
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<aside> ➡️ See Search Tab.
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To edit the converted text, tap the text box and edit it or add/remove content.
To replace the handwriting with the converted text, tap Convert.
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The result text will have roughly the same size as the original handwriting, and its color will be the same as the first letter of the handwriting.
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To copy the converted text, tap Copy Text.
To re-convert the handwriting using another recognition language, tap Auto Detect or the language name in the bottom-right corner, and choose the language from the list.
<aside> 💡 You can also drag the selected handwriting to an external app, where it will be automatically converted to typed text if the receiving app supports it. For example, try dragging handwritten tasks to your to-do app.
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<aside> ℹ️ The app can currently recognize handwriting in the following languages: