OneNote for Mac and iPad learned to recognize text in pictures

For last week Microsoft had several good news for users zametochnika OneNote. At first, all premium features become free for the Windows platform, then iOS-version has support for iCloud, and a few days later the company introduced the updated OneNote for OS X and iOS, which has learned to recognize text pictures. And he does it just fine even with Russian materials.

The technology is called OCR (Optical character recognition) and allows the scan image written means OneNote. If zametochnik finds text on them, he can copy it to the clipboard, or to find later the desired note by searching for a particular word or phrase in the image.

The technology works accurately enough to correct the program accounted for only in matters of formatting the result. So far, this feature works only with new images, but future updates to the company's promise to add the ability to scan images, which were attached to the notes above.

The rest of the update for OS X can be considered ordinary. Among the new features you'll find a further possibility to conceal the authorship of notes in common notebooks, as well as close the window without further completion of the application. An updated version for the iPad is certainly not passing name. The developers have added support for handwritten notes.

To do this, OneNote appeared several useful innovations. The choice you are presented with several tools (pen, pencil, marker), and the page automatically expands the notebook for maximum convenience of creating notes. In addition, you will have the opportunity to choose one of the nine options on how you hold the stylus in order to avoid false brush strokes.

Updated OneDrive is available for free download in the Mac App Store and App Store.

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