Searching handwritten notes in Adobe Acrobat XI Pro

[kcharnes]

I need help understanding how to search for handwritten words. Do I need to train the software through enhanced features to recognize handwritten words. We are a school district with numerous handwritten notes from parents, and there are times we need to find a particular student. I understood that Adobe Pro would allow us to search handwritten words. Did I misunderstand the OCR feature?

Thanks for help!

Karen

[Tariq Dar · Accepted solution]

Hi kcharnes,

OCR doesn't have the capability to read your handwritten notes.

This will work on flatten text documents, images with system generated text. Or scanned documents.

Hope that answers your question.

-Tariq Dar

[charleso43889489]

Hi Tariq

Just checking to see if there is any update on this. Has Adobe released (or plan to) any tools / add ons to search / read handwritten notes?

[rayhines]

You can probably find other software or services that attempt to read handwritting and convert to text.

Maybe a google service, or a standalone app - it would require AI (artificial intelligence) methods to achieve any kind of accurate result.

[hrknaus]

Since I am missing the same feature myself for quite some time, I am using MyScript Nebo for notes in handwritings, because it's multiplatform. It cannot write on PDFs (yet) but imagine how powerful a combination would be! For people who can do or want to learn handwriting.