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if you own a digitizing tablet and software which with training can recognize your handwriting, then you can paste that recognized text into omni software.
digitizing tablets are often bundled with such software for non-artists and many versions of microsoft office have handwriting recognition built in.

it is also reasonable to assume that apple will make handwriting recognition software available on the ipad even though it is already known that the ipad shall integrate with the current generation of apple bluetooth wireless keyboards.

any questions regarding whose hand writing recognition technology will be sold on the ipad platform seems speculative. yet i do not see why apple would not let third party companies from marketing this at their app store in addition to whatever they chose to provide integrated into the ten dollar version of pages.

i should also add that you do not need a digitizing tablet to enter handwritten notes because there is plenty of ocr software that will do this for you. as an example: write a note, take a picture of it with your iphone, email the picture to your mac, let your mac process the text from the image, then use the text.

i do not blame omni for avoiding the building of software technology on top of this dog and pony show.