![]() ![]() “This is not something you would want to use to write War and Peace with.” “I’m not sure the technology will ever support that degree of writing,” Bordogna said. What it is not designed for is more extensive note taking, such as a student taking lecture notes (or a tech writer with poor typing skills taking notes from a keynote or phone interview). ![]() Lenovo is saying the best use cases of this technology are writing search terms directly in a browser to quickly search the web instead of using the keyboard, as well as online forms, social media, emails, quick notes or dropping your signature in as an image. “We can use that accessibility layer to write into apps never designed to support writing in the first place.” “We rely on the accessibility layer in Windows that developers are using to meet accessibility requirements, and we piggyback on top of that,” Bordogna said. It works by utilizing the Microsoft Active Accessibility (MSAA) layer, a COM interface that enables assistive technology like screen readers, magnifiers, and voice-control applications. WRITEit operates in the background as users are writing and converts handwriting to text characters in real time. It allows a user to write in any box other than one for passwords.” “WRITEit makes writing a seamless part across all your apps,” Bordogna said. ThinkPad YOGA, ThinkPad Helix, ThinkPad 10 and YOGA Tablet 2 8-in with Windows are supported out of the gate, and the roadmap is to extend this to more products later this year. WRITEit works across select Lenovo Windows 8 devices with digitizer, active pen or AnyPen technology and provides real-time feedback and correction through a suggestion tool designed to catch typos by offering alternatives to unrecognized words. “In the past, some handwriting tools worked better than others, but there was no consistent cohesive way to use a pen on all the apps you use, and they tended not to work on the most popular Windows software,” said Bill Bordogna, product owner for WriteIT in Lenovo’s contextual computing group. Lenovo has announced its new WRITEit software application, which improves the capabilities of pen writing on Windows 8 devices, including writing in apps that were not designed to support writing. Today, the app supports four Windows 8 Lenovo devices, with more on the road map for this year.
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