You can use OneNote to hand write notes. This tutorial explains to you how you can change or convert handwriting to type text in OneNote.

My handwriting looks like a doctor's prescription. But OneNote's hidden handwriting conversion feature rescues my notes. It converts even my worst scrawls into perfectly readable text, whether I'm ...

You can now bold and italicize in Notepad — no, seriously Convert handwriting to text: Take quick handwritten notes, and later convert them to text to align with the rest of your content.

For Google Docs, you need to use the Google Drive OCR to convert handwritten notes to text. Google Keep's workaround works well with finger doodling, but the experience is still lackluster.

Meanwhile, today's update isn't just for iPad users. All versions of OneNote are getting optical character recognition (OCR) technology, which lets you search for text within images.

Download Windows Journal for Windows 11/10. It lets you convert the ink that you write with the pen tool to typed text, which can be used in other programs.