Microsoft’s Copilot AI now understands your terrible handwriting

Microsoft is preparing to alteration Copilot successful OneNote to publication and analyse handwritten notes. The characteristic entered beta testing late past month, and will let OneNote users to constitute handwritten notes utilizing a stylus and past summarize them, inquire questions, aliases moreover make to-do lists based connected nan notes.

The AI-powered Copilot characteristic successful OneNote will moreover beryllium capable to person your handwritten notes into matter for easy editing and sharing. Microsoft first launched Copilot wrong OneNote successful November, and this upgrade will beryllium disposable to existing Copilot for Microsoft 365 subscribers and Copilot Pro users erstwhile it rolls retired much broadly.

I’ve been concisely testing Copilot’s expertise to publication my handwriting, and I’m impressed that it’s moreover capable to decipher it. Summarization useful good crossed mini handwritten notes and moreover larger ones. I asked Copilot to rewrite an full paragraph of handwritten notes which it managed to format into easy to publication matter that was existent to nan original but besides a spot much jovial. That’s awesome fixed generative AI models person a inclination to conscionable make worldly up half nan time.

If you usage OneNote for handwritten to-do lists, past this characteristic decidedly makes it easier to person those into matter astatine a later stage. I created a handwritten database and Copilot was capable to accurately person this into a matter database wrong seconds.

I’m not judge really Copilot will grip moreover worse handwriting, though. Samsung’s Galaxy AI has a akin characteristic that tin automatically format handwritten lists, but it struggles pinch some of nan worst handwriting I’ve ever seen (sorry, Allison!).

If you want to trial Copilot’s handwritten statement nickname you’ll request to beryllium a Microsoft 365 Insider moving nan latest OneNote connected Windows build (17628.20006 aliases later) and person a Copilot Pro aliases Copilot for Microsoft 365 subscription.