Windows 8 and the Microsoft Surface

Re:Windows 8 and the Microsoft Surface by AndrewGaspar on Sunday March 02, 2014 @12:51PM (#7329948)

"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.

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Re:Windows 8 and the Microsoft Surface by scholia on Sunday March 02, 2014 @01:09PM (#7330028)

ISTR that OneNote already did that a decade ago in Windows XP Tablet Edition ;-)

Syncs with an audio recording as well....

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Re:Windows 8 and the Microsoft Surface by LukasMathis on Sunday March 02, 2014 @01:03PM (#7330003)

I 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?]

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Re:Windows 8 and the Microsoft Surface by nickbarnwell on Sunday March 02, 2014 @02:04PM (#7330276)

I 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.

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Re:Windows 8 and the Microsoft Surface by LukasMathis on Sunday March 02, 2014 @02:14PM (#7330315)

Interesting. I'll try that.

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Re:Windows 8 and the Microsoft Surface by slantyyz on Sunday March 02, 2014 @02:45PM (#7330449)

You 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.

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Re:Windows 8 and the Microsoft Surface by codeulike on Sunday March 02, 2014 @06:07PM (#7331158)

There's a free version of OneNote and a paid version, presumably this feature is in the paid version

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Re:Windows 8 and the Microsoft Surface by teamonkey on Sunday March 02, 2014 @09:40PM (#7331745)

The 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.

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