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Taskbone for Obsidian

Extract text and equations from images and PDFs and make them available for search.

Chinese summary

从图像和PDF中提取文本和公式,使其可搜索。

Key Use Cases

  • Extracting text from screenshots or photos of documents
  • Converting printed or handwritten equations into searchable LaTeX
  • Making PDF annotations and highlights searchable
  • Enabling full-text search in image-heavy notes

Pros

  • Supports equation OCR
  • Integrates searchability into existing Obsidian vault
  • Works with both images and PDFs

Limitations

  • OCR accuracy may vary with poor image quality or complex layouts
  • Requires additional system dependencies (e.g., Tesseract)
  • May need manual review of extracted text

Tags

OCRtext-extractionequationsPDFimagesearch

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