Handwritten notes i...
 

MegaSack DRAW - This year's winner is user - rgwb
We will be in touch

[Closed] Handwritten notes into onenote

7 Posts
8 Users
0 Reactions
255 Views
Posts: 2881
Free Member
Topic starter
 

I have 30 - 40 pages of handwritten notes I want to load into Onenote as normal text but would prefer to avoid re-typing them if at all possible.

I have scanned them so now hold the notes as pdf's and tried the native OCR in Onenote to convert to text. This hasn't worked as on reading up it appears more focused on recognising printed text than handwriting.

Is there any useful software packages / apps that may be more successful at reading my handwriting?


 
Posted : 04/01/2017 11:09 am
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

Bump


 
Posted : 04/01/2017 3:20 pm
 imn
Posts: 209
Full Member
 

[url= https://translate.google.com/ ]Google translate[/url] can process files (use the 'translate a document' link), so might have better luck in OCRing your scanned PDF.


 
Posted : 04/01/2017 3:57 pm
Posts: 91097
Free Member
 

Tried MS Office Lens?


 
Posted : 04/01/2017 4:22 pm
Posts: 57
Free Member
 

Assuming you can read your own writing, just load the pdfs into OneNote as pictures. You could add tags & titles to aid searching later.


 
Posted : 04/01/2017 5:26 pm
Posts: 14057
Free Member
 

Regardless of what anyone says - OCR on handwriting (even printed) is crap and doesn't work.
.... and I use OCR software costing >£10k!


 
Posted : 04/01/2017 5:56 pm
Posts: 9835
Full Member
 

Onenote is quite good if you write onto a tablet and correct as you go

No idea about reading scans....


 
Posted : 04/01/2017 7:02 pm
Posts: 97
Full Member
 

Just read them back into the pc using a speech to text program...

I did a document by reading it into an email on my iPhone once. Worked quite well.


 
Posted : 04/01/2017 7:17 pm