OneNote for iPad finally gets handwriting support
If you use OneNote on the iPad, you've probably wondered by now why the heck you can't just use a pen. After all, the Android tablet added stylus support six months ago, and the Windows version has had this feature since 2003 (a full seven years before the iPad even existed). Finally, though, Microsoft is throwing Apple fans a bone: The company just issued an update that allows iPad owners to use the stylus of their choice (or their fingers), complete with 16 ink colors and various onscreen writing implements (marker, highlighter, et cetera).
In addition, Microsoft added optical character recognition (OCR) throughout its entire family of apps, so that if you upload an image with text, those printed words will then become searchable in the application. Previously, this feature was only available on OneNote for Windows, but now you can use it on various other devices, including the iPhone, Windows Phones, Macs and, yes, the iPad. You can try that out today (Microsoft suggests waiting five minutes after an image upload to do a text-search), and in the coming months the company will also add business support, along with a way to search older images, too.
