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Google’s AI system could change the way we write: InkSight turns handwritten notes digital

Google's InkSight AI transforms handwritten notes into digital text while preserving personal writing style, bridging traditional note-taking with digital efficiency across multiple languages and complex documents.

Google Research has developed an artificial intelligence system that can accurately convert photographs of handwritten notes into editable digital text, potentially transforming how millions of people capture and preserve their thoughts. The same multilingual birthday note shown in three stages: the original handwriting (left), InkSight’s word-level analysis with color-coded processing (center), and the final digitized version with preserved character strokes (right). Built using widely available components, including Google’s Vision Transformer (ViT) and mT5 language model, InkSight demonstrates how sophisticated AI capabilities can be achieved through clever combination of existing tools rather than building everything from scratch.

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