Best handwriting input programs for Linux?

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  • xournalpp

    Xournal++ is a handwriting notetaking software with PDF annotation support. Written in C++ with GTK3, supporting Linux (e.g. Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, SUSE), macOS and Windows 10. Supports pen input from devices such as Wacom Tablets.

  • rnote

    Sketch and take handwritten notes.

  • Rust-based rnote does have the stylus input capability from within gtk4: https://github.com/flxzt/rnote https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.github.flxzt.rnote

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  • leptess

    Productive and safe Rust binding for leptonica and tesseract

  • Whatever you draw in rnote could be sent to OCR api's: OCR https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract TESSERACT OCR APIs in rust https://houqp.github.io/leptess/leptess/index.html

  • tesseract-ocr

    Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine (main repository)

  • Whatever you draw in rnote could be sent to OCR api's: OCR https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract TESSERACT OCR APIs in rust https://houqp.github.io/leptess/leptess/index.html

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