Currently working with a Vista Ultimate Desktop/ Office Pro 2003 and a
Windows Mobile 6.1 Smartphone with Office Mobile including OneNote. Looking
for information on how one can write with a stylus on the smartphone, use
recognition technology to convert to type and exchange data with desktop via
active sync. There is a microsoft download for a recognition pack for XP
and is probably made for PC Tablets. No newer downloads found. Guidance
sought.

OneNote mobile will sync your notes to OneNote but you won't get text
recognition that way.

I suppose if your handwriting is exceptionally clear you might be able
to copy/paste your text into OneNote 2007 as an image and have it OCR'd,
but I've never tried that and I think you'd have to have rather precise
handwriting.

I'm not aware of any handwriting recognition capabilities for the
SmartPhone but you might try posting the question in one of the Windows
Mobile newsgroups and see if they know.

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-Ben-
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"Maurice" <Maurice@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1FF6AD31-2468-47E6-AB94-D05F1EE09775@microsoft.com:

> Currently working with a Vista Ultimate Desktop/ Office Pro 2003 and a
> Windows Mobile 6.1 Smartphone with Office Mobile including OneNote. Looking
> for information on how one can write with a stylus on the smartphone, use
> recognition technology to convert to type and exchange data with desktop via
> active sync. There is a microsoft download for a recognition pack for XP
> and is probably made for PC Tablets. No newer downloads found. Guidance
> sought.

Ben M. Schorr - MVP (OneNote) wrote:

> I suppose if your handwriting is exceptionally clear you might be able
> to copy/paste your text into OneNote 2007 as an image and have it
> OCR'd, but I've never tried that and I think you'd have to have
> rather precise handwriting.

Dumb question - as never had a Smartphone, PDAs with a phone - only:
Do Smartphones support "writing" and saving as an image?

Rainald

Maurice wrote:

> Currently working with a Vista Ultimate Desktop/ Office Pro 2003 and a
> Windows Mobile 6.1 Smartphone with Office Mobile including OneNote.
> Looking for information on how one can write with a stylus on the
> smartphone, use recognition technology to convert to type and
> exchange data with desktop via active sync.

Smartphones in general do not support "inking", i.e. no recognition for
handwriting. In so far there's no software for SmartPhones.

PDAs, however, are able to work with their built-in recognizers
(Transcriber).

> There is a microsoft
> download for a recognition pack for XP and is probably made for PC
> Tablets. No newer downloads found.

Yes, that's for TabletPCs.
As said, nothing on/for SmartPhones.

Rainald