Microsoft’s Copilot AI now understands your terrible handwriting

Microsoft is preparing to alteration Copilot successful OneNote to work and analyse handwritten notes. The diagnostic entered beta investigating late past month, and volition let OneNote users to constitute handwritten notes utilizing a stylus and past summarize them, inquire questions, oregon adjacent make to-do lists based connected the notes.

The AI-powered Copilot diagnostic successful OneNote volition adjacent beryllium capable to person your handwritten notes into substance for casual editing and sharing. Microsoft archetypal launched Copilot wrong OneNote successful November, and this upgrade volition beryllium disposable to existing Copilot for Microsoft 365 subscribers and Copilot Pro users erstwhile it rolls retired much broadly.

I’ve been concisely investigating Copilot’s quality to work my handwriting, and I’m impressed that it’s adjacent capable to decipher it. Summarization works good crossed tiny handwritten notes and adjacent larger ones. I asked Copilot to rewrite an full paragraph of handwritten notes which it managed to format into casual to work substance that was existent to the archetypal but besides a spot much jovial. That’s awesome fixed generative AI models person a inclination to conscionable marque worldly up fractional the time.

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

I’m not definite however Copilot volition grip adjacent worse handwriting, though. Samsung’s Galaxy AI has a akin diagnostic that tin automatically format handwritten lists, but it struggles with some of the worst handwriting I’ve ever seen (sorry, Allison!).

If you privation to trial Copilot’s handwritten enactment designation you’ll request to beryllium a Microsoft 365 Insider moving the latest OneNote connected Windows physique (17628.20006 oregon later) and person a Copilot Pro oregon Copilot for Microsoft 365 subscription.