Install the Google Handwriting Input app on your Android device to handwrite characters, and the app will recognize it and convert it to text. The app acts as an added keyboard.

The optical character recognition (OCR) software supplied with many scanners is next to useless with handwriting, no matter how neat it is, but there is another option.

Google has just announced a new model technology called Insight, which it’s calling an ‘offline to online handwriting conversion tool’. Basically that means scanning a photo of handwritten ...