handwriting recognition not same as Vista

[tj]

Why is the handwriting recognition in Onenote not as good as it is
when I use the TIP? (the small yellow pop up input pad)

 

[Erik Sojka (MVP)]

How do you mean? OneNote and the TIP both use the MS Ink API, so the
recognition should be exactly the same.

There are some differences in how much work either function displays to
the user - since you don't actively confirm the translation while writing a
whole page of notes in OneNote, ON stores several different translation
guesses if the handwriting is unclear, while the TIP forces you to correct
the first few translation guesses immediately. But in both cases, it is
the same exact software behind the scenes doing the translation.

 

[James]

That's what I thought and read but I have tested it a bunch of times and it's
absolutely different. I input many hours of handwriting samples into TIP and
now TIP is very accurate. I write the some way in onenote and there are all
kinds of mistakes. I test it every which way and still it is not as accurate
as TIP... especially targeted specific recognition errors that I have
corrected using the TIP tool.

 

[compositor]

How do you enable Notes in Vista, is it possible or do you need a special
program?