Obsidian-Excalidraw 1.8.0 - OCR, Optical Character Recognition of handwritten text and images

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:30 Enable OCR in plugin settings
03:16 How to use the service
06:02 Demonstrating Obsidian search for scanned text

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[mageprometheus]

You are an Obsidian hero. I couldn't manage without Excalibrain, it's so good.

[nicolevdh]

Wow, you are a beast! Seems like there's always something new that you've just added to your plugins!

[taylormanning]

Welcome to obsidian, where the plugins have plugins

[papasmurf]

Wow, honestly am always impressed with what you come up with. Keep up the awesome work!

[sanjarcode]

Thanks for the in-person help across the plugin features and docs. videos are very helpful

[steverock]

Finally!!! I've been waiting for this for ages!

[mrebholz]

This was the missing link - Thank You.

[MCPetruk]

3:20 "Open the Obsidian Panel" How? I don't have that little purple icon. (only the book icon) And what are all the icons on the left side? How can I see them?

[MCPetruk]

If I bring into Obsidian a .jpg image of some text, this will not directly OCR the text, correct? I need to click the "Create New Drawing" button, copy paste the image on top of the "apprentice of sketchnoting" art, or else use the "insert any file" or "insert any image" icons to bring the image in. Then double click the image, then click the obsidian tool panel, then click the OCR button. Complicated.
How can I OCR 59 pages of text from individual .jpg images?

[DmitryRomanov]

Thank you a lot!
It looks very cool 👍

[sajjadhossan]

Sir,
Ocr is good to have feature. But not alternative to onenote `textpen`.
We need something to convert live hand writing input to text like android Google handwriting keyboard

[MCPetruk]

Can I bring in a multi-page pdf and have this program ocr all the pages at once? Or does it have to be one image at a time?

[존쌤의언어습득법]

Thanks a lot! I will definately be using this in the future! I also have a question. When I copy and paste text to excalidraw, it comes out as one line from left to right now matter how long the text is. Is there a way to copy and paste text into excalidraw so that it comes out neat into like a few lines withing a box type thing?

[jd]

2:40 Typo there in "Terms and Conditaions". Should be Conditions.

[nand]

Sir, I watched your video and Excalidraw plugin settings in your video and my computer look completely different. It's probably updated. I couldn't find the option of enable taskbone OCR or anything similar to it under the settings. Please help.

[mrparadox]

It's a game changer, thanks man🙏🙏🙏

[pdhana]

Excellent. What is the cursive font are you using ?

[samarohadutta]

It keeps telling me : Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 401 () in the developer console when I try to use this.

[tonyatlas]

Thank you for your work!
Is there any hope for other languges recognition?

[pianomarius]

hey absolutely loving these last updates!! <3<3<3

unfortunately on my w10 laptop (and iOS Tablet) the OCR command does not automatically paste the text in the front matter (have to paste it myself every time -> it recognizes the text and puts it in the clipboard but does not automatically paste it).

another bug I encounter is that when importing my automatically generated .svg of chemical structures i have drawn in the plugin as excalidraw strokes it generates a random mess of strokes in the top left corner of the drawing. When I import a .svg from e.g. wikipedia it works!
Am I missing s.th. obvious?

Stay awesome!