Abstract: Analog written content of handwritten drawings or written characters can be transformed into digital ink via an analog-to-ink service. The analog-to-ink service can receive a static image of the analog written content, extract analog strokes from other information, such as background, in the static image, and then convert the analog strokes to digital ink strokes, for example, by populating an ink container with at least two parameters for defining the digital ink strokes. The at least two parameters can include a pressure, at tilt, a direction, a beginning point, an end point, a direction, a color, an order, an overlap, a language, and a time. The analog-to-ink service can provide the ink container to a content creation application that supports inking so that a user can manipulate the content in an inking environment.

Abstract: Analog written content of handwritten drawings or written characters can be transformed into digital ink via an analog-to-ink service. The analog-to-ink service can receive a static image of the analog written content, extract analog strokes from other information, such as background, in the static image, and then convert the analog strokes to digital ink strokes, for example, by populating an ink container with at least two parameters for defining the digital ink strokes. The at least two parameters can include a pressure, at tilt, a direction, a beginning point, an end point, a direction, a color, an order, an overlap, a language, and a time. The analog-to-ink service can provide the ink container to a content creation application that supports inking so that a user can manipulate the content in an inking environment.

Abstract: Enhanced inking capabilities for content creation applications are provided. The content creation application may recognize inked words and return a text-based version of the inked word. Through an inked drawing feature, the content creation application can send the inked word or text-based version to the ink drawing service that hosts a data resource with inked drawings. The ink drawing service can use the inked word to search tags of inked drawings in the data resource and relevant inked drawings can be returned to the content creation application. Users can select to insert an inked drawing into a canvas interface of the content creation application. The user can then interact with the inked drawing as if they had done the drawing themselves by, for example, modifying color or thickness of any of the ink strokes of the inked drawing, adding or removing ink strokes, and annotating the inked drawing.