Make manual conversion of selected inking work no matter the automatic setting.There are a variety of what I think would be simple fixes given that ink-to-text can never be 100% right. If not, since this has been this way for a long time, get the thing fixed for the love of god. I'd like to know how MS saw this as the right thing to do if the way it currently works is as designed. Worse, you can't select ink and manually convert it to text. There is an option to turn off the automatic handwriting recognition, but then it can't search your handwriting when doing searches (which will affect some more than others). Usually just a handful or so, but completely randomly (from my perspective). I can come back the next day, to a puzzle I know I complete solved, and find missing letters. However, every letter is, essentially, a separate inking when doing a vertical word and vertical inked letters break up the horizontal inkings the vertical is first so a solved puzzle is a lot (100+ easy) of separate inkings overlaying an image. Either printing them from the LA Times into OneNote or taking a picture and putting it in OneNote. It can do the conversion, keep both and use its conversion, and then let the human decide to dismiss the ink in the future, if ever. Also, no automatic recognition mechanism should ever delete the ink without a human approval. A conversion of ink to text of 0 length ought to be rejected out-of-hand and leave the ink alone.
The problem is that it fails to convert somethings, as expected, but then deletes the ink and inserts a blank note (I've not seen it insert garbage text, but I assume that is possible, too). One of these tasks is automatic hand writing recognition. In fact, there is an option that affects battery performance and the frequency of these tasks. OneNote has several background tasks that run periodically. Sadly, as I see it, there are some fairly easy changes to the application that would alleviate most of the pain from this issue. I think it's great, and I've barely started using it, but it has at least one nearly fatal flaw. The embedded accelerometer senses when you are not using Pen and conserves your battery giving you up to 18 months of battery life.I believe you can only save locally if you have Office.
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