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Business plans, journal entries, family recipes, and grocery lists…from big ideas to everyday reminders, handwritten notes help us capture it all. But paper fades, gets lost, and is tough to organize and store long-term. AI Transcribe changes that. Whether you’re uploading a photo or scanning a document into Evernote directly, AI Transcribe turns your handwriting into searchable, editable text—making it easier than ever to keep your information safe and accessible.

Quickly turn handwritten notes or screenshots to text

AI Transcribe uses advanced AI OCR tools to convert images to text quickly and efficiently, preserving the look, feel, and formatting of your original notes—without the extra work.

Use AI Transcribe to capture anything, including, but not limited to:

AI Transcribe supports a wide variety of image file formats, making it incredibly flexible. You can scan documents directly using the Evernote app or upload existing images—both to the app or to the standalone web tool.


Here are the image formats AI Transcribe recognizes:

Jpg, jpeg, png, gif, bmp, tiff, webp, heic, heif.

The maximum supported dimension for images is 9216 pixels. 

Image-to-text in action: Create a family recipe archive

Picture this: You’ve inherited your family’s beloved—but chaotic—recipe collection. Scribbled across napkins, envelopes, and index cards, it holds decades of culinary wisdom, from grandma’s secret sauce to your aunt’s award-winning pecan pie. Digitizing this collection is the best way to preserve it for generations to come…that’s where AI Transcribe comes in! 

Step 1: Upload and transcribe
Start by scanning the pages with your home scanner or phone and uploading them to the Evernote app. From there, click the ‘Transcribe’ button to extract text from images—handwritten or typed—and convert them into digital notes. The transcribed recipes (and original images) are stored securely in your Evernote account and can be easily searched, edited, and referenced at any time.

Step 2: Clean up with AI
To polish up your recipe book, use Evernote's built-in AI Edit feature—it can quickly summarize wordy baking instructions, correct typos, and fix grammatical errors.

Step 3: Add new content on the fly
Ready to carry on the legacy by adding your own recipes throughout the years? It’s as easy as snapping a quick photo. AI Transcribe picks up the handwriting, converts the image to text, and slots it neatly into your organized recipe archive.

Now, your entire collection is easily searchable and available anytime, anywhere.


Evernote's AI Transcribe isn't just a photo to text converter. It's a powerful tool designed to make your handwritten content searchable, organized, and preserved for generations.

Along with handwriting recognition, AI Transcribe offers strong audio-to-text and video-to-text transcription capabilities. It also integrates seamlessly with the Evernote ecosystem, pairing well with tools like AI Edit (so you can quickly summarize transcripts), as well as both traditional and AI-Powered Search (to help you surface exactly what you need with simple natural-language searches).


Have a huge backlog of audio or video recordings? Learn how to transcribe audio and video to text here.

👉 How to effortlessly convert audio, video, and images to text with AI Transcribe

👉 Transcribe your content using AI in 3 simple steps

AI Transcribe uses powerful OCR AI to extract text from images and handwriting—make your notes, journals, whiteboards, and more into digital, editable text.

Convert handwriting to text online with AI Transcribe

Handwriting to text in seconds: Meet Evernote's AI Transcribe

Recording meetings and lectures always seems like a time-saver in the moment—until you’re stuck replaying the whole thing just to transcribe it by hand. And who has time for that?

AI Transcribe offers a smarter solution. Instead of digging through hours of recordings, you can convert audio to text or extract text from video in seconds, transforming long recordings into useful content that you can review, search through, and edit with ease.

AI Transcribe can quickly transcribe audio, transcribe video, or extract text from video files, either directly in Evernote or from the standalone web tool.


Whether it’s an audio file saved on your device or a video hosted online, AI Transcribe supports the formats you're likely already using every day, such as:

Audio and video files: mp3, mp4, mpeg, mpga, m4a, x-m4a, wav, webm, aac, x-aac, mov, ogg, quicktime, mkv, m4v

Online sources*: YouTube links, social media videos, or cloud-hosted recordings

No need to convert anything before uploading—just drop in your file or link and hit ‘Transcribe’.


AI Transcribe supports files up to 100MB in size or 1 hour in length—perfect for meetings, interviews, lectures, and more. With robust multi-language support, it’s also a great tool for students learning a new language or multi-national teams looking to collaborate and share knowledge.


In the web tool, AI Transcribe can also generate an instant summary of your text—helping you quickly understand the main points and share key takeaways without wading through the full transcript.

*Right now, the URL to text feature is only available in the standalone web tool.

Here are a few ways AI Transcribe can help save you time:

👉 Generate perfect meeting notes with audio transcription

Imagine you’re sitting in a one-hour quarterly planning meeting. Instead of taking messy notes by hand, you record the conversation. You then upload the audio file to AI Transcribe for fast speech-to-text conversion and use Evernote’s AI Edit to create a summary of key decisions, action items, and goals—ready to share with your team within seconds.


👉 Convert video to text and skip the rewatch

Missed a webinar or online event? Upload the recording or paste a video URL to quickly transcribe the content. No more browsing frame by frame or watching at 1.5x speed—just review the transcript to quickly find the information you’re looking for.

Record whatever’s on your mind—random thoughts, quick reminders, or sparks of inspiration—using your phone’s voice recorder or directly in Evernote. Then, transcribe your memos in seconds with AI Transcribe and instantly organize them alongside your other notes. It’s perfect for journaling, brainstorming, or capturing ideas on the go.

After adding your transcription to Evernote, you can easily leverage our other powerful AI Edit features to make the most out of your content. Here are all the ways you can improve your transcript with AI Edit:

Translate notes into up to 50 other languages

Share your ideas with the world via email or a social media post using the "Write as" feature

With AI Transcribe and AI Edit, your messy, raw audio becomes clean, shareable, and action-ready—perfect for work, school, or personal projects.

Prefer taking handwritten notes during your meetings instead? Learn here how to transcribe handwritten notes into digital text.

Instantly extract speech from audio or convert MP4s to text. AI Transcribe turns your voice memos, lecture videos and more into editable, searchable transcripts.

Convert video, audio & URLs to text instantly with AI Transcribe

Turn audio recordings into clear notes with AI Transcribe

Do you have a phone full of screenshots, voice notes you’ll “get to later,” and meeting recordings you’ve been meaning to listen to since last month? Then this one's for you!

Capturing information is easy. But when your ideas are locked in recordings or images, you lose time trying to find or make sense of them later. That’s why AI video transcription tools, image to text converters, and audio transcription software are essential for turning scattered content into a personal knowledge bank.

AI Transcribe is an all-in-one tool that unlocks your content, whether it’s audio, video, or images, turning digital clutter into organized, usable notes that fit right into your workflow. Our powerful AI transcription software supports a wide range of formats, allowing you to convert video to text, extract text from images, and transcribe audio in just three easy steps.

AI Transcribe is designed to support a wide variety of formats and sources, making it a flexible online transcription tool for many needs.

Audio files. Quickly convert audio to text from an MP3 file.

Screenshots and images. Seamlessly extract text from images.

Handwritten notes. Turn handwriting to text in no time with fast, reliable text recognition.

Document uploads like PDFs. Easily digitize records or printed materials, making them searchable and editable.

Direct video links. You can even transcribe from a URL to get text for an online video clip or file from the cloud.

Live recordings. Capture conversations in real time and turn them into searchable text.

Once your file is uploaded, AI Transcribe takes it from there. 

In the standalone web tool, it’s as easy as uploading your content and hitting ‘Transcribe’.

Instead, if you're working in the Evernote app, you'll see a ‘Transcribe’ button appear next to your content—just tap it to begin. Within moments, your audio, image, or video will be converted into text, ready for you to review. 

Whether you're working within Evernote or using the web tool, saving your transcription is quick and effortless. 

The standalone tool gives you flexible options—you can insert the transcription directly into Evernote, copy it to use in another document, or download it as a .txt file for safekeeping.

On the other hand, if you choose to transcribe your content directly in Evernote, you can edit the transcription like any other text: Leave comments, copy and paste sections, or move it to another note or Space.

From archiving old documents and digitizing printed pages to transforming handwritten diaries into searchable content, AI Transcribe helps you preserve and repurpose your important information. Whether you need to convert images to text, transcribe audio, perform automatic video transcription, or transcribe a video link, it transforms content from a variety of formats into editable text. The result? Your cluttered media becomes clean, structured notes—so your best ideas never get buried in the mess.

Convert audio, video, screenshots, and handwritten notes into editable text in just three simple steps using AI Transcribe.

Transcribe audio, video & images to text in 3 easy steps

Transcribe your content using AI in 3 simple steps

From Zoom calls and podcasts to YouTube clips and handwritten notes, we’re often juggling all types of content where having a written transcript would be a lifesaver—but pausing every few seconds to type it all out? Total productivity killer.

That’s where AI Transcribe comes in: an all-in-one online transcription tool that converts your audio, video, and image-based content into clean, searchable text in seconds. Whether you’re looking to transcribe audio, convert video to text, or extract text from images, this powerful AI transcription software handles it all.

Use AI Transcribe within your Evernote account to seamlessly convert audio, video, and images into text, directly in your notes. 

You can also switch to the standalone web tool, which includes all the same features as the in-app version—plus the added capability of AI video transcription for online videos (URL to transcript). From there, you can save the results locally or to Evernote. 

Both options are designed to be intuitive and fit smoothly into your workflow.

Here’s how to easily add a voice recording to a note and transcribe it afterward: 

First, click “Insert” and choose “Audio Recording.”

Press stop once you're done recording, and the “Transcribe” button will automatically appear.

The transcript drops right into your note—you can then edit and format it any way you want.

AI Transcribe handles a wide range of content types, making it incredibly versatile no matter the source.

Perform fast audio transcription. Perfect for when you need to transcribe MP3 to text, like when you’re turning a podcast episode into a blog post or newsletter.

Use it as a voice-to-text converter for live recordings. Just convert audio to text the next time you have a great idea to jot down. Your morning voice note can become your next project outline.

Transcribe MP4 and MOV files, turning speech to text from video. For example, you can turn a recorded Zoom interview into a searchable script for your article.

Transcribe video from an online link. Great for generating automatic video subtitles for a vlog or promotional video.

Convert image to text from formats like JPG and PNG. Useful for digitizing handwritten meeting notes on a whiteboard or extracting content from a photographed flyer or scanned document.

AI Transcribe supports files up to 100MB in size or 1 hour in length, making it ideal for meetings, interviews, lectures, and more. With robust multi-language support, AI Transcribe is a great tool for students practicing their foreign language listening skills or global teams collaborating across languages.

*Right now, the URL to text feature is only directly available in the standalone web tool.

There are three simple ways to convert your content to text using AI Transcribe:

Upload a file. Drop in any supported audio, video, or image file from your device. This could be pre-recorded interviews, voice notes, lectures, scans, screenshots, or photos of written text.

Record audio directly. Use the built-in recorder to capture live speech in real time. Directly record your meetings, brainstorms, or quick thoughts on the go, for a seamless speech-to-text online experience.

Paste a link. Got an online video clip or cloud-hosted file? Online video transcription is no problem—just paste the URL and AI Transcribe will handle the rest.

AI Transcribe is more than just a transcription tool. It’s a natural extension of how Evernote users already think and work. If you use Evernote as a digital “second brain,” you’re likely collecting thoughts, conversations, and ideas from all corners of your life—meetings, voice memos, lectures, even snapshots of handwritten notes. The goal? To organize everything in one place so it’s searchable, usable, and ready when you need it. With AI Transcribe, every word and image can become part of your thinking system—effortlessly captured, transcribed, and instantly accessible alongside the rest of your notes.

AI Transcribe also integrates seamlessly with the Evernote ecosystem: Just scan documents or handwritten pages with your phone or record audio on the go, then drop it all into Evernote to be transcribed. From there, it works hand-in-hand with tools like AI Edit (so you can quickly summarize transcripts), as well as both traditional and AI-powered search, helping you surface exactly what you need—no matter when or how it was captured.

From MP3s and MP4s to JPGs and beyond, AI Transcribe handles a wide range of formats. It’s your go-to video transcription tool, audio transcription tool, and photo-to-text converter, letting you focus on your content—not the typing.

Turn your recordings, videos, and notes into editable text instantly. AI Transcribe supports audio, video, images, screenshots, and handwritten notes.

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