Now, double-click and drag the cursor around the handwriting that you want to convert. Click Ink to Text in the Draw tab. OneNote will then convert your handwriting to typed text.

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.

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.

OneNote provides a way to convert handwritten notes to text via the Lasso Select tool (Draw tab) to access Ink to Text.

Provided their handwriting is neat enough, OneNote should be able to recognize the equations and convert them to text, which allows the equation solver to work its magic.