Ophaya Pro+

I was excited to start using it for note taking in meetings, but text recognition does not work, so it is only slightly better than old school paper and pen. PLEASE FIX TEXT RECOGNITION!

When I first bought the board tablet in October of 2024 I absolutely loved it and it worked great and synced fine and everything. But more recently in the last few months I have been unable to get the text recognition to work I would get the error message "request timed out". I downloaded this for IOS and I've got an iPhone 15 Pro Max up to date. I backed up the data on the app to my phone. I deleted the app and then redownload the app back to my phone and synced up the backed up data and everything is there, but the text recognition is still not working and now I'm getting a new error message when I try the text recognition of "Could not connect to server." I don't know what happened, but I would really like to be able to use text recognition.

This app requires the Ophaya pen with Ophaya paper, notebook, and/or electronic tablet. I've had my set since Christmas 2023, and it has significantly reduced my note-taking paper waste. I mostly use the tablet. In my case, it is the Boogie Board version of their tablet. I'm a sloppy writer. I always have been. I find that the handwriting OCR feature does a much better job of reading my writing than most similar software. In fact, I've only found one app that does a better job, but the pricing is exaggerated: more than the cost of the Ophaya pen plus I still need to use paper and then use the phone's camera to take a picture for the reader. The only recommendation I have is to make sure you have enough light. The pen needs to "see" what is written to record it; then the software can do its job. Also, if you sync from your pen with notes already in the tablet section, it WILL overwrite your last note. The workaround I found is to choose not to sync. Then save and/or OCR the older notes, delete them, and then go into the pen and choose sync. It's a bit of a pain, but no lost notes. The latest update, adding the ability to erase, is something I've been hoping for and is so helpful. It doesn't erase your tablet or paper, but it does erase from the software, which helps with the handwriting recognition a lot. Just remember to use the next page button for every new page, and you're good to go.