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Is there support for Excalidraw plugin embeddings?
I'm curious if this supports the embeded Excalidraw drawings from the Excalidraw plugin. It does have OCR built in, but it requires the use of a 3rd party online service and API, (taskbone) which is kind of a deal breaker for me. (I'm already just barely convincing myself to use Obsidian in the first place with it being closed source) At the same time though, being able to search through all of my handwritten notes would be a massive feature add. The Excalidraw plugin can be made to automatically keep an up-to-date exported .png file of your drawings, but I'm not sure if those would actually be processed by this. (plus, while that might work, it is still a pretty bad solution since you're massively increasing disk usage at idle by storing the full PNG for every one of your drawings all of the time, as opposed to just generating a PNG, OCR-ing it, storing the text, and deleting the PNG.)
At the moment, Excalidraw is somewhat supported. As you already pointed out, the drawing can be saved as an image, which will then be OCRed. However, if the image changes, it has to be reindex manually.