OneNote - convert handwritten notes to text

Kemik

Kemik

Kemik

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Hi guys,

I take a lot of notes in work on paper. Anyone know if it is possible to get these into OneNote as searchable text? My handwriting isn't too bad but the default Microsoft Lens + Make Text Searchable isn't generating usable results.

Am I better with Evernote instead of OneNote?

The end goal would be being able to edit the text!

Thanks
 
Try Adobe Scan on your phone, you scan it with the phones camera, then email yourself the PDF.

It support text recognition. I've not tried it with handwriting but receipts/letters etc it's very good and it's free.
 
You haven't got a hope unless your handwriting is incredibly neat, even & printed- Not joined up.

I've done a massive amount of text recognition on stuff scanned with a decent scanner (1000s of pages, all typewritten/ computer printouts), and even this has a 5-10 word error rate per complete A4 page.
Usually with this, the auto-correct / spellcheck picks it up, & all I have to do is click OK to accept the correction.
Poor condition stuff or older typewritten stuff with misaligned letters or non-standard fonts fairs a lot worse.

I hate to think of the error rate on handwriting.....

IMHO your best bet here would probably be to store the scanned stuff as images and add tags to them so that they're searchable that way.
Not as good as text-recognised, but I think the best you're likely to get.
 
may not be practical in the op's case but if you have a smart pen(ink+Bluetooth) is recognition much better (since it knows direction of strokes)
would not capture a white-board though, took pics of these.

I found surface pro pen reocgnition onto touch screen impressive, but do not know if Onenote has similar algorithms.
 
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