Unlike these early systems, Google’s Handwriting Input app recognizes barely legible writing scrawled in multiple lines of text. You don’t need to adapt your writing style or write clearly.

The program, called WriteIt, taps into Win 8's accessibility layer, allowing you to enter handwriting in any text field, whether it be the built-in Windows search tool or the search bar on ...

The app uses optical character recognition to convert handwriting into machine-readable text. This enables you to use the app to search uploaded sticky notes for specific words or phrases.

The Ink to Math feature allows users to convert handwritten mathematical equations in Word, PowerPoint, Excel to Font text. Learn how!

The optical character recognition (OCR) software supplied with many scanners is next to useless with handwriting, no matter how neat it is, but there is another option.

Install the Google Handwriting Input app on your Android device to handwrite characters, and the app will recognize it and convert it to text. The app acts as an added keyboard.