Windows 10: Unfortunately, my handwriting recognition will sometimes refuse to work. The languages I...

Unfortunately, every now and again it simply stops working. The first indication of this is normally, that instead of the writing input a touch keyboard appears. When I finally manage to pull up the writing input field, it simply does not attempt to recognise the text. I have scoured over my settings multiple times and simply cannot find a consistant fix. I feel it happens especially often, when using my lenovo yoga in presenter mode. Does anybody know a fix?This combined with the inability of the text recognition to recognise that I write my p's starting from the top and not the bottom why

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How to get handwriting recognition to recognise diacritical marks?

You must install German handwriting recognition.

Step 1: Install German language from Settings > Time & Language > Language > Add a language:





Step 2: Select German, unselect Install language pack, select Handwriting:





That should do it!

 

How to install handwriting recognition

Hi Ramon,

We don't have the actual list of commands for handwriting recognition.

However, you can visit these links to know how to enable it:

• How to Improve Handwriting Recognition on Your Windows 10 PC
• How to Use Handwriting Input on Windows 10
  

To get the language packs, you can download it here:
Language packs.

Let us know if you need further assistance.

 

Handwriting personalization / Supported characters for English (US) language

Hi Jacob,

Since the Handwriting Personalization feature has worked properly before, there's a possibility that recent changes or updates performed on your computer may have triggered this problem or it could be that there is a need for you to improve the handwriting
recognition on your Surface Pro by providing more samples of your handwriting. Follow these steps:

1. Navigate to Control Panel > Clock, Language, and Region > Language > Language options.
2. Under Handwriting, click Personalize handwriting recognition.
3. Select Teach the recognizer your handwriting style.
4. Several options will be provided to you on what samples do you want to input.
5. Once done, click Update and exit.
6. Click Close.

In case you're still getting the same error when trying to have a word or letter recognized, then you may have to reset the handwriting recognizer and start from scratch. Here's how:

1. Navigate to Language options > Handwriting.
2. Under Personalize handwriting recognition > Related Tasks, click
   Delete handwriting samples that you provided for the current language.
3. Confirm that you want to delete it by clicking Yes, delete my handwriting samples and reset the handwriting recognizer.
4. Once done, then try to re-establish your handwriting feature again.

Let me know the result so I can assist you further.

Regards.