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- Convert handwriting to text. OneNote includes a handy conversion tool so you can change handwritten text into typed text. This is useful if you want to share your handwritten notes in a more legible format with other people. To convert handwriting to text, do the following: On the Draw tab, choose the Lasso Select button.
- Easily convert your.txt and.docx files into handwritten text in a convenient PDF format; - Not just text! Create tables in Word, transfer images, and we will make their handwritten copy for any paper sizes! Yes, yes, we could do it too! - Customize the handwriting.
One of the best apps in the Microsoft Office suite is also one of the least known. But that could be about to change. This week, handwriting recognition went live in the Microsoft Lens app, which was previously known as Office Lens.
The app already had OCR text recognition that made it Lens an effective scanner, but with the latest update, the company says Microsoft Lens can do a pretty good job of recognizing and digitizing your scribbles on paper. For now, the capability is limited to English handwriting. It's a useful addition for students, office workers, scholars, and anyone else who still believes the pen is mightier — or more convenient — than the keyboard.
The official schpiel — In a recent company-wide announcement talking up the new feature, Microsoft says:
Our apps provide the ability for you to transform and collaborate around modern multimedia content and help provide the privacy and protection you need to safely express yourself from your mobile devices. For organizations, providing new ways to create, curate, and collaborate around mobile, user-generated content will unleash the power of your workforce’s creativity. And supporting a secure and inclusive culture for self-expression that is centered on people’s data and identity protection will free workers to focus on business outcomes.
Hold your horses — Microsoft Lens' ability to take your handwritten notes and convert them into digital text can save a lot of time and labor that goes into academic, corporate, or any other projects that involve lots of note-taking. But like dictation software, Microsoft Lens isn't perfect, and shouldn't be trusted for important documents without giving its output a pass. There is, after all, a chance that the app will make a mistake or three. However, thanks to machine learning, Microsoft says that Lens will improve over time. You know, more data, fewer problems. Maybe, with the right kind of training, Microsoft Lens will be even one day be able to successfully parse doctors' handwriting.
Once your handwritten notes are converted, you have the option of translating them into more than 30 languages, changing their format from Word to PDF or other formats, adding annotations, and other editing and layout options. Of course, if you seldom write anything beyond a birthday card, this new feature may be wasted on you. But at least you can scan those, now.
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- Write the word, take a picture, and open it in Photoshop.
For this tutorial, I drew the number 50. I used a normal black sharpie on a piece of loose leaf paper. You can use whatever drawing tool you want: paint, pen, crayon, marker, etc. Plain white paper is best, but anything will work. Then, take a simple photo with your phone and open it in Photoshop. - Use the levels panel to give it scan-worthy contrast.
First step: Let’s make this image look like we scanned it. Click command + L (ctrl + L on a PC) or go to Image > Adjustments > Levels. You should see a graph of the light in the image. A “hill” on the left shows how much black is in the image while a hill on the right shows how much white is in the image. (Pictures of handwriting usually have way more white.)
Your goal is to bring the right-most slider to the beginning of the “hill” on the right side of the graph. This will flatten all of the white in the image to be pure white, instead of giving shades of gray. (If you used a colored marker instead of black, move the black slider to the farthest point of the black hill to intensify that, too.) You should see your image shift from a photo to a crisp image that looks like you scanned it! - Remove the background using the color range tool and a mask.
If you didn’t use loose leaf paper, you can probably skip this step—but you’ll still need to do this if you want the image to have a transparent background! Go to Select > Color Range and click on the writing in your image. Adjust the fuzziness until all you can see in the preview is your writing (for me, I made sure no loose leaf lines were visible). Then, click the mask button to make the rest of the image transparent. You should only see the digitized handwriting. - Color the handwriting using a colorize filter.
If you don’t want plain black text, you can add color! Go to Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation. In this window, click the box beside the word “colorize.” From here, you can choose any color and increase the saturation and lightness until you have colored your handwriting.
And voila! Here you have an editable photoshop layer for your handwriting. From here, you can save it as a .png and use it in other programs, show it to a tattoo artist, or even import it into Illustrator and image trace it to make it into a vector. The possibilities are nearly endless—hopefully this tutorial inspires you to use your digital handwriting more often in design.