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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

![A screenshot showing the word heart handwritten in English on the canvas, with PencilKit displaying its Chinese character translation at the top of the screen.](images/com.apple.pencilkit/building-a-handwriting-recognition-experience-with-pencilkit~dark@2x.png)

> Note: This sample code project is associated with WWDC26 session [203: Read Between the Strokes with PencilKit](https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc26/203/).

This sample code project must be run on a physical device with Apple Pencil.

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