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"The way I want handwriting recognition to work is to take notes by jotting them down inside an app like OneNote, and have Windows recognize that automatically,
by AndrewGaspar 13y ago
"The way I want handwriting recognition to work is to take notes by jotting them down inside an app like OneNote, and have Windows recognize that automatically, behind the scenes, optionally without replacing my handwritten notes with printed text. Then, I want to be able to search my handwritten notes using full-text search."
OneNote actually already does this! Try searching in OneNote for things you've written in pen and it will show those notes.
- LukasMathis 13y agoI just tried, but it didn't find anything. Not sure if my handwriting is so terrible, or if there's something else going wrong here. [Update: maybe the Metro version of OneNote doesn't support all of the features of the desktop version?]
- nickbarnwell 13y agoI don't believe the OneNote Metro app supports indexing handwritten notes. If you open the same notebook in the Win32 client and allow it to index and sync back to Sky/One/WhateverIt'sCalledThisWeekDrive you should be able to search through previously handwritten and Win32-client-OCRd notes in the Metro app.
- LukasMathis 13y agoInteresting. I'll try that.
- slantyyz 13y agoYou need the full version of OneNote for the recognition. It's vastly superior, but on the plus side, if you're using OneDrive or Office 365, you can edit existing notes either one depending on your needs for a given situation.
- codeulike 13y agoThere's a free version of OneNote and a paid version, presumably this feature is in the paid version
- teamonkey 13y agoThe Metro version of OneNote doesn't, but Windows Journal does and it's installed on the Surface by default. It's a legacy app though.
- scholia 13y agoISTR that OneNote already did that a decade ago in Windows XP Tablet Edition ;-) Syncs with an audio recording as well....