Convert handwritten pages to text If your computer, tablet, or mobile device works with a stylus, you might already use it to make sketches or jot handwritten notes in OneNote.

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.

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.

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.

The optical character recognition (OCR) software supplied with many scanners is next to useless with handwriting, no matter how neat it is, but there is another option.