When you paste handwriting into other applications, it is automatically converted to text ( Figure 5.11).įigure 5.11 You don't have to convert handwriting before copying and pasting it into other documents. The persondoesn't need to have a Tablet PC. The digital ink that provides the magic of text conversion and searchingis contained in your note file, meaning that anyone reading the file in OneNotecan search your handwritten notes or convert them to text. You don't need to convert your handwriting to text OneNote is capableof searching your handwriting for words. Your handwriting is converted to text ( Figure 5.10).įigure 5.9 Convert your selected handwriting to text.įigure 5.10 OneNote does a pretty good job of recognizing your text, but sometimes it gets the case wrong and uses different-sized fonts. Right-click and choose Convert Handwriting to Text ( Figure 5.9). Select the note container by clicking the top. That said, it does surprisinglywell at understanding what you write. Unlikevoice-recognition technology, which gets better at recognizing your spoken wordsthe more you dictate, the Tablet PC already knows all it's ever going toknow about converting handwriting into text. Unfortunately, there is no way to teach your Tablet PC your particularhandwriting style in an effort to increase its conversion accuracy. While the technology is amazing and has a high success rate, it will notsuccessfully convert everything you write (unless, perhaps, you have very goodhandwriting). In this example, it is using converted text to create a page title.Īccording to Microsoft, the conversion technology was developed afteranalyzing millions of handwriting samples from different people throughout theworld. The handwriting has not yet been converted into text on the screen, but behind the scenes, OneNote has already converted the handwritingflawlessly, in this caseand has used the text to create a title for the page.įigure 5.8 Behind the scenes, OneNote automatically converts your handwriting to text.

When you're using a Tablet PC, OneNote uses the Windows XP Tablet PCEdition's handwriting recognition technology to convert yourhandwritingor digital inkinto text.įigure 5.8 shows how OneNote converts handwriting to text in the background.

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