XPdfNotes PDF notetaker vs A.Notes Usage & Stats
XPdfNotes is an application for PDF editing and for notetaking, sketching, keeping a journal using a stylus. It is the application xournal running remotely and integrated in our cloud system- As such, it inherits the xournal functionalities and tools.
XPdfNotes features are:
- "Pen" is the default drawing tool in Xournal. It comes in a variety of colors and thicknesses
- "Eraser" can either delete everything in its radius of operation, act as a white pen.mode or delete the whole length of any continuous stroke in the affected area.
- "Highlighter" acts as a semitransparent pen allowing the user to highlight areas of text or image.
- Text tool allows insertion of basic blocks of character-based text.
- Image tool allows to move or resize the newly inserted or any selected image.
- Shape recognizer can be enabled alongside with the pen to automatically detect circles, lines and polygons when they are drawn and replace them with a clean version.
Additionally, strokes and blocks of text can be selected, moved and copied using a rectangular selection tool.
This app is an access to a Xournal app that is run remotely. Note that in order to use this app you must use the following actions with your fingers:
- Left-click: Tap once.
- Double-click: Double-tap.
- Mouse-drag: Tap, hold long and move your finger.
- Scroll-wheel: Two-finger drag up/down and left/right.
- Zoom in/out with your fingers.
- Send text: Click on the button keyboard.
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New features:
* Handy interpretation for communicating with people in different countries
* Fast and easy to export ANotes' data in PDF format
* Create your own audio book in PDF format
* Create free text annotation (free drawing) if words cannot express your meaning
* Sign your ink signature with date and your title, and drag your signature/image to where you like on the PDF file.
* Add company stamp or picture to PDF file
* Maintain watermark on your PDF file
* Create remarks/comments on PDF file through voice to text function
* Protect your PDF file by password/key
* Share your PDF file with optional alert in your calendar, so that you can trace the file you have sent.
* Your PDF summary/remarks can be saved/linked in ANotes's database, so that you can read/search the summary in ANotes instead of finding and opening the documents one by one.
A.Notes is NOT just a notes app, it provides advanced data capturing functions using A.I. technologies based on Apple Machine Learning Models - Core ML. It supports iOS 14.0 or above, and 10 display languages are provided - English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, Japanese, Korean, Simplified and Traditional Chinese.
- Capture image data through text recognition
- Capture voice data speech recognition over 50 languages
- Read text data using natural language processing
In additions, due to providing more languages support on OCR, an open source solution - Tesseract is adopted.
- Online translation functions support over 35 languages.
- All data is captured and stored in database in your device for further processing.
- when creating/modifying notes, the notes can be added to Apple Calendar.
- The Notes can be categorized your own made icons.
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XPdfNotes PDF notetaker VS. 
A.NotesDecember 14, 2024