I was looking into rocketbook and it sounds really nice, but I’m not sure if there’s an option to save as markdown, which is kind of a dealbreaker to me as I’d like to continue using Obsidian. Does there exist something like that?
I was looking into rocketbook and it sounds really nice, but I’m not sure if there’s an option to save as markdown, which is kind of a dealbreaker to me as I’d like to continue using Obsidian. Does there exist something like that?
Disclaimer: I don’t have a Rocketbook, nor do I want one.
According to https://rocketbookhelp.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360019987674-How-to-Choose-Your-File-Format, you can at least export your notes. For everything, it’s image formats or PDF, but for text specifically…
https://rocketbookhelp.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360015750993-OCR-Handwriting-Transcription is actually pretty vague.
Alright, what file format is the “one file with [my text]”? And the “JPEG attached with a transcription of [my] text”—if is a regular image, where does my text go? Is it displayed in the JPEG file itself?
Okay, pretty straightforward.
No native .md output, but .txt is not too hard to turn into an .md file. At first I was thinking you could literally handwrite a markdown file, manually writing the
#
before a header or the asterisk around italics. But…Alright, I hope you handle punctuation well, that’s a normal and common part of language, but you just said “letters and numbers”.
Not sure if you would get line breaks in that OCR file as long as you are not using those things, or if you just would not get them at all.
Those would be the barrier between you getting anything to help you with turning .txt to markdown or if you would have to do all the conversion by hand.
I also suggest you go to that OCR link to learn more about its limitations, but these are the most relevant.