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# Handwriting recognition

Configure text fields and custom views that accept text to handle input from Apple Pencil.

## Topics

### Essentials

  <doc://com.apple.documentation/documentation/PencilKit/customizing-scribble-with-interactions>

### Text fields

[`UIScribbleInteraction`](/documentation/UIKit/UIScribbleInteraction)

An interaction for customizing the behavior of Scribble on text input views, or for suppressing it entirely in specific cases.

[`UIScribbleInteractionDelegate`](/documentation/UIKit/UIScribbleInteractionDelegate)

Methods for customizing or suppressing Scribble behavior within text input views.

### Custom views

[`UIIndirectScribbleInteraction`](/documentation/UIKit/UIIndirectScribbleInteraction-1nfjm)

An interaction for using Scribble to enter text by writing on a view that isn’t formally a text input.

[`UIIndirectScribbleInteractionDelegate`](/documentation/UIKit/UIIndirectScribbleInteractionDelegate-hdh)

Methods that customize behavior on views that aren’t formally text input views.

[`ElementIdentifier`](/documentation/UIKit/UIIndirectScribbleInteractionDelegate-hdh/ElementIdentifier)

A unique identifier for a control that isn’t a text field in a Scribble interaction.

[`UIIndirectScribbleInteraction`](/documentation/UIKit/UIIndirectScribbleInteraction-2dap8)

An interaction for using Scribble to enter text by writing on a view that isn’t formally a text input.

[`UIIndirectScribbleInteractionDelegate`](/documentation/UIKit/UIIndirectScribbleInteractionDelegate-3jmnk)

Methods that customize behavior on views that aren’t formally text input views.

[`UIScribbleElementIdentifier`](/documentation/UIKit/UIScribbleElementIdentifier)

The element’s unique identifier.


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