Handwritten to Digital (Mathnuscripts)

Approaches and workflow for converting notebooks to searchable notes.

Methods

Scan to PDF → OCR → Import
Voice read-through → STT transcript → Summarise
Smart pens / digital notebooks
Telegram → LLM transcription → Obsidian note

Workflow

sequenceDiagram
  participant N as Notebook
  participant S as Scanner/Camera
  participant O as OCR/LLM
  participant V as Obsidian
  N->>S: Capture pages
  S->>O: Images/PDF
  O-->>V: Clean text + frontmatter
  V->>V: Link to related notes

References