Common notebooks for Vista and XP

[Abhi]

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

 

[Rainald Taesler]

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

 

[Abhi]

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.