Convert Ink To Text Onenote

Two Minute Tech Videos for teachers! This week we explore the OneNote ink to text and ink to shapes features! View more about OneNote at TeachWithWings.com.

Click or tap Ink to Text to convert your handwriting selection to typed text. If the original ink strokes in your handwriting were written in a particular pen color, OneNote will automatically format the converted text in the same color. After the handwriting has been converted, you can select, edit, and format the text in any way you want.
Step 1: Open up OneNote and then switch over to the drawing tab by clicking on the Draw option in the top toolbar. Step 2: Here, click on any of the available pen/highlighter tools to start.
Helping OneNote Convert Your Handwriting to Text. You can take a number of steps while entering handwriting to improve the odds that OneNote will correctly convert it to text: Always turn on the ruled lines when using handwriting. Choose View Rule Lines and then select a format. The figures in this chapter show the College Ruled lines.

Ink to Text isanother tool within the Draw tab in OneNote. It allows you to write on OneNote’s whiteboard surface, even in cursive,and convert your handwriting to typed text. This of course works best with either a stylus on a touchscreen or thepens on a smart board, but just to show it can be done, I’m using my mouse on adesktop in the videos in this post. Speeded up, of course.

Welcome to Day 10 of 365 Ideas for Office 365. this week we’ve been looking at OneNote, specifically the amazing things you can do with tools under the Draw tab, like Ink to Shape and Ink to Math. Today Ink to Text gets it’s turn in the spotlight.

With all the other features we’ve looked at, we looked at the differences between OneNote Online, OneNote 2016, and the OneNote app. Ink to Text is a different situation. Right now, OneNote Online does not have Ink to Text. You can convert somewhat using Ink to Math, but it’s one word at a time, you will probably have to use the Fix It button, and even the Fix It button can’t figure out what to do with the letter “t”. For a laugh, check the GIF below. To use your 13 seconds more productively, move on.

Ink to Math, I mean Text, in OneNote Online

OneNote 2016 does have Ink to Text. Technically. It really only works one word at a time, so each word will be in its owntext box. In 2016, it’s a nice idea, butit really just doesn’t function well. Again, here’s the video evidence.

Ink to Text in OneNote 2016

In the OneNote app,Ink to Text really shines. You can writein print and convert a single word. Youcan write in print and convert multiple words, and it keeps them together inone text box. You can even write incursive, and again, in entire phrases and sentences. “My students don’t know cursive”,you say? Duh, that’s what this isfor! Youcan write quickly in cursive, and with the click of a button, convert it to afont your kids can read!

Ink to Text in OneNote App

When the OneNote appfirst came out, many people (including me) were disappointed in it, because itwas missing many features in OneNote 2016. Now that the app has had some time to grow up some, between the 2016 featuresthat Microsoft has been adding to the app, and especially new features like theInking tools, the OneNote app has become the premier version.

After taking handwritten notes in Microsoft OneNote on your mobile device, you can quickly convert that handwriting to text automatically. This allows for easier legibility, as well as giving you the option to search your notes for specific phrases.

Handwritten Notes can only be converted on the desktop version of Microsoft OneNote. Conversion on the online version of OneNote is not available at this time.