Business plans, journal entries, family recipes, and grocery lists…from big ideas to everyday reminders, handwritten notes help us capture it all. But paper fades, gets lost, and is tough to organize and store long-term. AI Transcribe changes that. Whether you’re uploading a photo or scanning a document into Evernote directly, AI Transcribe turns your handwriting into searchable, editable text—making it easier than ever to keep your information safe and accessible.
Quickly turn handwritten notes or screenshots to text
AI Transcribe uses advanced AI OCR tools to convert images to text quickly and efficiently, preserving the look, feel, and formatting of your original notes—without the extra work.
Use AI Transcribe to capture anything, including, but not limited to:
- To-do lists
- Daily planners
- Project outlines
- Whiteboard notes
- Meeting notes
- Lecture notes
- Grocery lists
- Gratitude journals
- Poems
- Song lyrics
- Story drafts
- Greeting cards
Scan or upload your files with ease
AI Transcribe supports a wide variety of image file formats, making it incredibly flexible. You can scan documents directly using the Evernote app or upload existing images—both to the app or to the standalone web tool.
Here are the image formats AI Transcribe recognizes:
- Jpg, jpeg, png, gif, bmp, tiff, webp, heic, heif.
- The maximum supported dimension for images is 9216 pixels.
Image-to-text in action: Create a family recipe archive
Picture this: You’ve inherited your family’s beloved—but chaotic—recipe collection. Scribbled across napkins, envelopes, and index cards, it holds decades of culinary wisdom, from grandma’s secret sauce to your aunt’s award-winning pecan pie. Digitizing this collection is the best way to preserve it for generations to come…that’s where AI Transcribe comes in!
Step 1: Upload and transcribe
Start by scanning the pages with your home scanner or phone and uploading them to the Evernote app. From there, click the ‘Transcribe’ button to extract text from images—handwritten or typed—and convert them into digital notes. The transcribed recipes (and original images) are stored securely in your Evernote account and can be easily searched, edited, and referenced at any time.
Step 2: Clean up with AI
To polish up your recipe book, use Evernote's built-in AI Edit feature—it can quickly summarize wordy baking instructions, correct typos, and fix grammatical errors.
Step 3: Add new content on the fly
Ready to carry on the legacy by adding your own recipes throughout the years? It’s as easy as snapping a quick photo. AI Transcribe picks up the handwriting, converts the image to text, and slots it neatly into your organized recipe archive.
Now, your entire collection is easily searchable and available anytime, anywhere.
Why choose AI Transcribe?
Evernote's AI Transcribe isn't just a photo to text converter. It's a powerful tool designed to make your handwritten content searchable, organized, and preserved for generations.
Along with handwriting recognition, AI Transcribe offers strong audio-to-text and video-to-text transcription capabilities. It also integrates seamlessly with the Evernote ecosystem, pairing well with tools like AI Edit (so you can quickly summarize transcripts), as well as both traditional and AI-Powered Search (to help you surface exactly what you need with simple natural-language searches).
Have a huge backlog of audio or video recordings? Learn how to transcribe audio and video to text here.
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