Windows 8 In Depth

Using Handwriting Recognition

If you have a tablet computer that includes a stylus input device, or if you have an add-on writing or drawing tablet or pen, you may want to use these devices to handwrite text input rather than typing or using the Touch Keyboard. (You can also write with the mouse or your finger, although it’s not quite as convenient as with a pen.)

To write, open the Touch Keyboard, touch or click the keyboard icon, and select the Handwriting Input icon shown previously in Figure 35.1. The Handwriting Input panel appears as shown in Figure 35.3. Simply write in the upper half of the input box using either separate (block) letters or cursive, which, amazingly, Windows does a very good job of recognizing. It does this by looking ...