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Search handwriting

Retrieve your ideas, even when they’ve been scribbled, scrawled, or jotted down.

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Handwriting Search feature Evernote

Evernote can read your handwriting

Find specific words in your handwritten notes, in white board images, and in any other JPEGs, PNGs and GIFs you’ve saved in Evernote.

Evernote Handwriting feature showcase

Evernote speaks your language

Evernote can identify 28 typewritten and 11 handwritten languages. You can also choose which language is used by changing the Recognition Language setting.

Evernote multilingual recognition feature showcase

Evernote can scan on-the-go

Easily capture all your handwritten ideas and notes on both Android and Apple devices with Evernote’s built-in camera.

Evernote scanning feature

Evernote can find it all

Expand your search using Boolean operators (e.g., “dog AND cat”), the location where you created the note, and more. Or, narrow your search results by filtering for tags, attachments, PDFs, URLs, Tasks, or Calendar.

Advanced search feature showcase Evernote