Re: Can Office use OCR to read in handwritten documents ?

Herb,

Thanks for your response and ideas. I have put a suggestion out there that
the ink capability (like it works in a PPT presentation and when you have a
tablet PC) be made to work whether you have a tablet PC or not. Being able to
make annotations is an important ability (at least for me) and to have to use
crude work arounds in as sophisticated a product as word is too bad.

Andy

"Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote:

> Mine actually appears to have an ink capability--you can insert handwritten
> notes, and they aren't converted into text. When I choose Handwriting -
> Write Anywhere. But, they seem to want to take the place of text, rather
> than sitting in the drawing layer. There doesn't seem to be an option to
> insert them in front of text, rather than in line with text. And, setting
> Word to default (Tools - Options - Edit) to inserting grapics in front of
> text doesn't affect the ink objects.
>
> In my case, I can accomplish what you're talking about, however, by using my
> Wacom pen to control Word's scribble tool (on the drawing toolbar, choose
> Autoshape - Lines - Scribble). But, it's a very crude workaround, at best.
>
>
> --
> Herb Tyson MS MVP
> Please respond in the newsgroups so everyone can follow along.
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> "ATD mapman" <ATDmapman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:8BE9EA94-A1B6-4B1E-84C1-64D544C9B4DA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Thanks Herb,
> >
> > You are correct about language recognition. The problem is this is really
> > only designed for handwriting recognition. It does not allow annotations
> > that
> > sit directly on top of a document (like a professor does when reviewing a
> > paper). Ink, like works for tablet PCs (and incidentally does work for
> > PowerPoint during a presentation only) allows annotations directly onto
> > the
> > document.
> >
> > They should have allowed the "ink" capability for people with Wacoms.
> >
> > Any other ideas?
> >
> > Andy
> >
> > "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote:
> >
> >> I don't know about the Intuos, but the ink feature works with my Wacom
> >> Graphire pad, which is attached to a normal desktop PC. If you
> >> right-click
> >> the language bar and choose Settings... in the Settings tab, there should
> >> be
> >> a Handwriting Recognition section. If not, click Add and see if you can
> >> enable/add it.
> >>
> >> If you don't see the language bar, right-click Windows' taskbar and
> >> choose
> >> Toolbars - Language bar (unless it's already checked).
> >>
> >> --
> >> Herb Tyson MS MVP
> >> Please respond in the newsgroups so everyone can follow along.
> >> http://www.herbtyson.com
> >> "ATD mapman" <ATD mapman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> >> news:3BC2E10F-384B-4D07-905D-B04D61D6EB8D@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> > Hello,
> >> >
> >> > I just read the below
> >> >
> >> >> The ability to process 'ink' (handwritten notes) into
> >> >> documents while it ships with Office comes from the capabilities
> >> >> in Windows XP for Word 2003.
> >> >
> >> > My testing of office 2003 seems to say that the ability to process
> >> > "ink"
> >> > is
> >> > only available if you are using a tablet PC. I have a wacom intuos
> >> > tablet
> >> > with a desktop PC and would love to use the "ink" feature. Is there any
> >> > way?
> >> >
> >> > Thanks, Andy
> >> >
> >> > "Bob Buckland ?:-)" wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Hi Miksoft,
> >> >>
> >> >> MS Office apps can generally accept OCR results from
> >> >> a variety of brands of Optical Character Recognition,
> >> >> (i.e. Word, Excel do not in themselves possess an ability
> >> >> to do the recognition). The MS Office Document Imaging app
> >> >> will attempt to 'read' and turn things into text but some
> >> >> of the 3rd party OCR apps are stronger in their abilities.
> >> >>
> >> >> The ability to process 'ink' (handwritten notes) into
> >> >> documents while it ships with Office comes from the capabilities
> >> >> in Windows XP for Word 2003.
> >> >>
> >> >> ============
> >> >> <<"miksoft" <miksoft@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> >> >> news:ACFB7DAB-E937-46FF-9788-43198BD234D9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> >> Want to convert many handwritten pages into text in MS Word.>>
> >> >> --
> >> >> Let us know if this helped you,
> >> >>
> >> >> Bob Buckland ?:-)
> >> >> MS Office System Products MVP
> >> >>
> >> >> *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*
> >> >>
> >> >> For Everyday MS Office tips to "use right away" -
> >> >> http://microsoft.com/events/series/administrativetipsandtricks.mspx
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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