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title: Building a handwriting recognition experience with PencilKit
framework: pencilkit
role: sampleCode
role_heading: Sample Code
path: pencilkit/building-a-handwriting-recognition-experience-with-pencilkit
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# Building a handwriting recognition experience with PencilKit

Integrate handwriting recognition into your app to identify written text across multiple languages, and explore path conversion and substrokes to enhance the drawing experience.

## Overview

Overview note: This sample code project is associated with WWDC26 session 203: Read Between the Strokes with PencilKit. This sample code project must be run on a physical device with Apple Pencil.

## See Also

### Handwriting recognition

- [Recognizing handwriting and converting it to text](pencilkit/recognizing-handwriting-and-converting-to-text.md)
- [PKStrokeRecognizer](pencilkit/pkstrokerecognizer.md)