To convert an image of handwritten text into digital text that you can edit and search, you need an OCR (optical character recognition) tool. Microsoft OneNote. Availability: Windows, Mac, Web, iOS. Cloud-based program The Only OneNote Guide You'll Ever Need The Only OneNote Guide You'll Ever Need OneNote is a powerful note-taking app. Follow these steps to turn your ink notes into text. OneNote may not recognize parts of the text and simply not convert it. If so, follow these steps: Use the Lasso Select tool to select the text that did not convert. Right-click or press and hold on the selected text. In the pop-up menu that appears, choose Treat Selected Ink As and then. The issue with handwritten (Pencil) notes is they are treated as a separate object from the text entry. Keeping all of this aligned is a chore. One thought is to covert to text, but unlike the Windows version of OneNote, I don't see a Draw tab on the Ribbon to lasso the Pencil notes and convert. Converting Your Handwritten Notes to Text. When you're using a Tablet PC, OneNote uses the Windows XP Tablet PC Edition's handwriting recognition technology to convert your handwriting—or digital ink—into text. A workaround for you could be to use the print to onenote feature to print the PDF to onenote as an image, then you can use the already built-in functionality to recognize text from an image. Just a thought. Drag a scan or a saved picture into OneNote. You can also use OneNote to clip part of the screen or an image into OneNote.; Right click on the inserted picture and select Copy Text from Picture. The Note is a completely different animal though with the included pen and S-Note, and even OneNote gets handwriting to text conversion! I just don't like Android on tablets in general but I may get used to it.

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OCR is one of the most difficult tasks that a PC is asked to do. It is difficult enough when the text has been typed. Converting handwriting - even worse poor handwriting - is a big ask, and my guess without seeing your text is that it will be difficult or impossible to do this, and I doubt very much whether the One Note handwriting conversion engine is up to the job - even if you could use it to extract from the PDF, which seems unlikely. You may have some success with a specialised OCR product such as FineReader which can be taught to recognize particular font characteristics, but frankly even that is going to struggle. Rather than spend money on more software, you might consider employing a copy typist to type up your notes. Graham Mayor (Microsoft Word MVP) For more Word tips and downloads visit my web site https://www.gmayor.com/Word_pages.htm. OCR anything with OneNote 2007 and 2010 Word 2013 also does some pseudo OCR, extracting text from PDFs, but I don't expect it to work with your handwritten PDFs.