Obsidian plugins with #handwriting#

The Ink plugin for Obsidian introduces the ability to integrate handwritten notes and sketches directly into your text, using tools like digital pens or styluses. This feature is especially useful for creating diagrams, math equations, or freeform illustrations between paragraphs, adding a dynamic, personalized touch to your notes. Powered by the tldraw framework, it offers an infinite canvas for seamless creativity. Designed for those who value a blend of handwriting and digital notes, the plugin ensures smooth input and promises future enhancements like pen smoothing and improved formatting for embed longevity, making it a versatile tool for visual thinkers and note-takers alike.

The Inkporter plugin streamlines the process of digitizing handwritten notes in Obsidian by intelligently isolating ink from scans and optimizing them for digital use. It automates tasks such as ink isolation, grayscale conversion, and adaptive theming while offering real-time previews. The plugin supports direct clipboard imports, smart file naming, and seamless integration with Obsidian's CSS theming for a polished appearance. Users can fine-tune ink detection settings for optimal contrast and clarity, ensuring clean and readable scans.

The Handwriting plugin adds pen based writing, highlighting, erasing, lasso selection and insert space tools directly on notes and PDFs while keeping the note itself as Markdown. It draws on a CodeMirror overlay, supports pressure sensitivity, palm rejection, pinch zoom, shape snap, undo and redo across ink and text, PDF flattening for export, PDF snipping, mouse input and lined or grid paper backgrounds. Ink is stored separately as one JSON sidecar per note inside the vault's .handwriting folder, linked by a single handwriting-page-id property when a note is first inked. Text content stays unchanged unless that one property line is added and hidden folders may need compatibility mode for some sync services.

The Scan Sketch plugin turns photos of notebook pages and loose documents into cleaner images you can drop into your notes. It can pull an image from a file picker or the camera, detect page corners, straighten perspective, rotate the shot and let you fine tune the crop by dragging four points. It also includes brightness, contrast, saturation and black and white controls, plus background removal with live preview before export. You can save the result as PNG, JPG or SVG, pick from multiple destination folders and insert the embed link into the active note at the cursor.

The Handwriting OCR plugin converts handwritten or printed content from images and PDFs into editable text using HandwritingOCR's AI-powered recognition service. It supports a wide range of image formats, multi-page PDFs, and files up to 20MB, making it suitable for digitising notes, archival documents, or scanned material. Extracted text can be copied to the clipboard, appended to an existing note, or saved as a new note, with options accessible via the command palette or right-click menus in both the editor and file explorer. The plugin requires an API key from HandwritingOCR, validates it within the settings, and displays your remaining credits.

The HandLayers plugin adds editable handwriting and drawing layers to Markdown and PDF files without changing source content. Apple Pencil or mouse input creates ink while touch remains available for page navigation. Its tools cover pens, highlighters, text, shapes, lasso selection and temporary whiteboards, with controls for moving, resizing, rotating, recolouring and arranging annotations. Layers can be named, reordered, hidden and given individual opacity, and their JSON data stays inside the local vault. PDF workflows support visible annotation merging and ZIP exports containing source files, saved layer SVGs, JSON and a manifest. It also provides non destructive image processing for PDF regions and Markdown images, including colour selection, cleanup, cropping, rotation and perspective correction.