1.   But neither IBM nor Cross seems willing to trumpet the ability to transform notes into computer text.

2.   In the consumer market, Apple is well-positioned to ride the growth in multimedia computing -- the embellishment of computer text with graphics, audio and video.

3.   It may someday be possible to convert n-scribe messages to computer text using handwriting recognition software, he said.

4.   Many computer texts are printed in sans-serif, blocklike letters that are harder to read.

5.   Programs to encode computer text would have a key deposited with an agent.

6.   The catch is that a message will arrive at its destination as an image of the original pen scrawl rather than as tidy computer text.

7.   The company developed its own optical character recognition software to turn the type in headlines and product descriptions into searchable computer text, a Google spokesman said.

8.   The main trouble with the Internet has been that almost everything tends to be hidden behind a uniform display of raw computer text.

9.   The ultimate prize, of course, with products like the Crosspad is the ability to translate notes into standard computer text.

10.   This code allows users to search for key words within the images, just as if the material were stored as standard computer text.