Scanned Notes Bruce 4/13/2007 12:48:00 AM I frequently have handwritten notes that I take while away from my computer. I would like to get these into OneNote. Currently, I scan them and then print them to OneNote. Unfortunately, this does not allow me to search the information (no OCR)so I resort to manually adding a few keywords so that I can do a search when necessary. Has anyone developed an alternative method for converting handwritten notes into a OneNote usable format? Thanks for any thoughts. -bs

Re: Scanned Notes "Ben M. Schorr, MVP" <bens[ at ]bogusaddress.mvp> 4/13/2007 5:27:09 PM What version of OneNote are you using? -- -Ben- Ben M. Schorr, MVP Roland Schorr & Tower http://www.rolandschorr.com "Bruce" <Bruce[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:1E125232-5296-436E-A1F7-14158294771D[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] >I frequently have handwritten notes that I take while away from my >computer. > I would like to get these into OneNote. Currently, I scan them and then > print > them to OneNote. Unfortunately, this does not allow me to search the > information (no OCR)so I resort to manually adding a few keywords so that > I > can do a search when necessary. > > Has anyone developed an alternative method for converting handwritten > notes > into a OneNote usable format? > > Thanks for any thoughts. > -bs

Re: Scanned Notes Bruce 4/13/2007 6:08:00 PM OneNote 2007 -bs "Ben M. Schorr, MVP" wrote: [Quoted Text] > What version of OneNote are you using? > > -- > -Ben- > Ben M. Schorr, MVP > Roland Schorr & Tower > http://www.rolandschorr.com > > "Bruce" <Bruce[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:1E125232-5296-436E-A1F7-14158294771D[ at ]microsoft.com... > >I frequently have handwritten notes that I take while away from my > >computer. > > I would like to get these into OneNote. Currently, I scan them and then > > print > > them to OneNote. Unfortunately, this does not allow me to search the > > information (no OCR)so I resort to manually adding a few keywords so that > > I > > can do a search when necessary. > > > > Has anyone developed an alternative method for converting handwritten > > notes > > into a OneNote usable format? > > > > Thanks for any thoughts. > > -bs >

Re: Scanned Notes "Ben M. Schorr, MVP" <bens[ at ]bogusaddress.mvp> 4/18/2007 5:36:05 AM Hmmm...tough one. If you print your notes and your handwriting is exceptionally clear then OneNote 2007 might be able to text recognize them. Otherwise I can't think of much that will resolve that problem. :( -- -Ben- Ben M. Schorr, MVP Roland Schorr & Tower http://www.rolandschorr.com "Bruce" <Bruce[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:4F54D295-90A5-44C1-A6CC-C4B997D8A630[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] > OneNote 2007 > -bs > > "Ben M. Schorr, MVP" wrote: > >> What version of OneNote are you using? >> >> -- >> -Ben- >> Ben M. Schorr, MVP >> Roland Schorr & Tower >> http://www.rolandschorr.com >> >> "Bruce" <Bruce[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message >> news:1E125232-5296-436E-A1F7-14158294771D[ at ]microsoft.com... >> >I frequently have handwritten notes that I take while away from my >> >computer. >> > I would like to get these into OneNote. Currently, I scan them and then >> > print >> > them to OneNote. Unfortunately, this does not allow me to search the >> > information (no OCR)so I resort to manually adding a few keywords so >> > that >> > I >> > can do a search when necessary. >> > >> > Has anyone developed an alternative method for converting handwritten >> > notes >> > into a OneNote usable format? >> > >> > Thanks for any thoughts. >> > -bs >>

Re: Scanned Notes "Thurman" <thurman[ at ]bigplanet.com> 4/18/2007 1:36:22 PM "Ben M. Schorr, MVP" <bens[ at ]bogusaddress.mvp> wrote in message news:B7CAC5A5-C7C0-4D53-B7F4-40C32B9D6171[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] > Hmmm...tough one. If you print your notes and your handwriting is > exceptionally clear then OneNote 2007 might be able to text recognize > them. Otherwise I can't think of much that will resolve that problem. :( > >>> "Bruce" <Bruce[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message >>> news:1E125232-5296-436E-A1F7-14158294771D[ at ]microsoft.com... >>> >I frequently have handwritten notes that I take while away from my >>> >computer. I would like to get these into OneNote. Currently, I scan >>> >them and then >>> > print them to OneNote. Unfortunately, this does not allow me to search >>> > the >>> > information (no OCR)so I resort to manually adding a few keywords so >>> > that I can do a search when necessary. >>> > >>> > Has anyone developed an alternative method for converting handwritten >>> > notes into a OneNote usable format? For legal reasons, as well as efficiency, I record notes in a spiral college ruled paper notebook. Using Dragon Speak I can read 3 days of notes into Word or OneNote in about an hour. If you have a Mobile 5 (6) device, you can purchase Microsoft's Voice Command for ~$40 or wait for a Mobile 6 upgrade. I do not know if there is a speech to text option. There is a speech to text module included in WinXP, but I have never experimented with it. Starter packages for Dragon Naturally Speaking are around $49.

Re: Scanned Notes Bruce 4/19/2007 2:28:02 PM I do not even see a way to get Onenote to attempt to read the text. No matter what method I use to get the handwritten notes into Onenote, it does not give me the option. I have tried printing from a PDF or TIF file using print to OneNote. I have also tried capturing screen shots of the file and pasting those in. OneNote won't even give me an option to text recognize these. It seems to me that it is not really different from if I had actually written it into OneNote using a Tablet PC. -bs "Ben M. Schorr, MVP" wrote: [Quoted Text] > Hmmm...tough one. If you print your notes and your handwriting is > exceptionally clear then OneNote 2007 might be able to text recognize them. > Otherwise I can't think of much that will resolve that problem. :( > > > -- > -Ben- > Ben M. Schorr, MVP > Roland Schorr & Tower > http://www.rolandschorr.com > > "Bruce" <Bruce[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:4F54D295-90A5-44C1-A6CC-C4B997D8A630[ at ]microsoft.com... > > OneNote 2007 > > -bs > > > > "Ben M. Schorr, MVP" wrote: > > > >> What version of OneNote are you using? > >> > >> -- > >> -Ben- > >> Ben M. Schorr, MVP > >> Roland Schorr & Tower > >> http://www.rolandschorr.com > >> > >> "Bruce" <Bruce[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > >> news:1E125232-5296-436E-A1F7-14158294771D[ at ]microsoft.com... > >> >I frequently have handwritten notes that I take while away from my > >> >computer. > >> > I would like to get these into OneNote. Currently, I scan them and then > >> > print > >> > them to OneNote. Unfortunately, this does not allow me to search the > >> > information (no OCR)so I resort to manually adding a few keywords so > >> > that > >> > I > >> > can do a search when necessary. > >> > > >> > Has anyone developed an alternative method for converting handwritten > >> > notes > >> > into a OneNote usable format? > >> > > >> > Thanks for any thoughts. > >> > -bs > >> >

Re: Scanned Notes xTenn <xTennREMOVETHISPART[ at ]tds.net> 4/19/2007 5:56:46 PM Bruce wrote: [Quoted Text] > It > seems to me that it is not really different from if I had actually written it > into OneNote using a Tablet PC. > Ah, but there is a large difference. When you are writing with the pen the machine is capturing stroke information for each mark you make, which is then translated into characters. When you paste in a picture this information is lost, you only have the pixels. This makes it much more difficult to discern as characters since handwriting varies greatly.