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one thing I really like about the surface pro is the stylus on the side you can clip this off and flip around the cover and you can do handwriting recognition or drawing or take notes like this so this is Adam Lang for Pocket NomCom and in this video we're going to take a look at the handwriting recognition on the surface pro so by default when you go into a text field on the surface pro you're going to get this touchscreen QWERTY keyboard you can obviously just tap it with your fingers but I'm going to switch to this one and this is the handwriting recognition panel Microsoft has been doing handwriting recognition for a very long time I think they may have started back in 2000 or so in 2002 they brought it to the tablet PC and it's been changing and evolving ever since so right now it's kind of docked to the bottom half of the screen and let's see if I can write something here and I ran out space so you can see as it's moving along it tries to recognize the words and we messed up a couple times because I was writing very messily so I can put a rewrite that word and this one I believe if we do that it's going to separate it so when you tap the words you can rewrite certain letters and it will usually try to figure out what the word is supposed to be so that's in the email and that's pretty nice let's go to one note one note is a little different because it also sports writing on the page directly so let's see what I can do here good doing a pretty messy job here and I am laying my hand on the screen the Wacom stylus you can see there's little point there as soon as this is within you know about an inch you see the point appears and that disables the touchscreen so that I can set my hand in now that's a handwritten and over here there's a little button Inc to text and we see that it converted it to text some words did well some words are a little bit off but if you just want to go keep on writing notes in OneNote this is a pretty nice so this method I really like because you got a lot of room to keyboard keep writing what and back in the email it's a little bit odd to be right in at the bottom of screen the whole time but that's how it works previous versions of tablet PC operating systems allowed you to put the input panel wherever you want it but that kind of got in the way so see what that word is nope there we go so that time I just changed one one letter and it guessed what the rest of the letters were going to be and you see up here I can undo that and go back to the original word or it gives me some suggestions of other words that I might be thinking and a little X Allah apply it and insert so overall I'm pretty happy with the handwriting recognition here it's gotten pretty advanced it's very easy to edit in this input panel so you can fix the mistakes especially when you're writing extremely messily but very usable very nice very happy with that so that's the handwriting recognition on the surface Pro be sure to give this video a thumbs up and that's it for now