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Common notebooks for Vista and XP

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Abhi

Flightless Bird
Hi,

I have a set of notebooks residing on a USB stick. I use it on my
office destop which runs windows XP and home laptop running Vista. I
use Wacom tablet to enter handwritten notes and Onenote 2007 on both.
I am aware of the limitation that you cannot have searchable ink on
XP. Is it possible for me to make digital ink recognisable on vista,
so that I can search it on XP?

By searchable, I mean to use the search box in Onenote(don't care
about windows desktop search). I can convert the handwritten notes to
text on Vista and this text will be searchable in XP but I want to
keep my notes in digital ink. I know It can be done, because when I
search in XP and if the keyboard happens to be in a handwritten note
took on vista, then there is a hit. So , is there a way where I can
trigger Onenote on vista to recognise digital ink and build this map/
index between ink and text so that it could be searched on XP.

Any pointers will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Abhi
 
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Rainald Taesler

Flightless Bird
Abhi wrote:

> I have a set of notebooks residing on a USB stick. I use it on my
> office destop which runs windows XP and home laptop running Vista. I
> use Wacom tablet to enter handwritten notes and Onenote 2007 on both.
> I am aware of the limitation that you cannot have searchable ink on
> XP.


With ON this is possible.
I just tried it on my XP machine.
Words in notes written with a pen on my TabletPC (running under XP when
they were created) can be searched there.

> Is it possible for me to make digital ink recognisable on vista,
> so that I can search it on XP?


I don't know a way but IMHO that's not necessary at all.

> By searchable, I mean to use the search box in Onenote(don't care
> about windows desktop search).


That's exactly how it works in my side.

> I can convert the handwritten notes to
> text on Vista and this text will be searchable in XP but I want to
> keep my notes in digital ink.


Only too understandable. I hardly ever convert what I have written with
the pen.

> I know It can be done, because when I
> search in XP and if the keyboard happens to be in a handwritten note
> took on vista, then there is a hit.


And this is not the case when the note was composed on the XP machine?

> So , is there a way where I can
> trigger Onenote on vista to recognise digital ink and build this map/
> index between ink and text so that it could be searched on XP.


I really do not understand the issue :-(
Would the input from a Wacom tablet be so much different from the input
on a TabletPC?

Rainald
 
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Abhi

Flightless Bird
Thanks for your Reply. But as far as I understand there is a
difference between tablet edition of XP and the one that runs on
desktop.

http://jkontherun.com/2009/04/22/windows-xp-handwriting-recognition-vs-tablet-edition/

I am sharing the notebooks on a XP desktop and a Vista Laptop and want
to use Vista Ink recognisation engine to make handwritten notes taken
on XP to be searchable.


> Abhi wrote:
> > I have a set of notebooks residing on a USB stick. I use it on my
> > office destop which runs windows XP and home laptop running Vista. I
> > use Wacom tablet to enter handwritten notes and Onenote 2007 on both.
> > I am aware of the limitation that you cannot have searchable ink on
> > XP.

>
> With ON this is possible.
> I just tried it on my XP machine.
> Words in notes written with a pen on my TabletPC (running under XP when
> they were created) can be searched there.
>


> > Is it possible for me to make digital ink recognisable on vista,
> > so that I can search it on XP?

>
> I don't know a way but IMHO that's not necessary at all.
>
> > By searchable, I mean to use the search box in Onenote(don't care
> > about windows desktop search).

>
> That's exactly how it works in my side.
>
> > I can convert the handwritten notes to
> > text on Vista and this text will be searchable in XP but I want to
> > keep my notes in digital ink.

>
> Only too understandable. I hardly ever convert what I have written with
> the pen.
>
> > I know It can be done, because when I
> > search in XP and if the keyboard happens to be in a handwritten note
> > took on vista, then there is a hit.

>
> And this is not the case when the note was composed on the XP machine?
>
> > So , is there a way where I can
> > trigger Onenote on vista to recognise digital ink and build this map/
> > index between ink and text so that it could be searched on XP.

>
> I really do not understand the issue :-(
> Would the input from a Wacom tablet be so much different from the input
> on a TabletPC?
>
> Rainald
 
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