Patent ID: 7412094

Claim:
A computer system for editing ink input, comprising: an ink parser for recognizing a hand-drawn table in ink input; a table editor operably coupled to the ink parser for editing the hand-drawn table recognized by the ink parser; an alignment detector for detecting the initial alignment of one or more elements within the recognized hand-drawn table, the initial alignment indicating the element's position within a cell of the table; a receiver for receiving an indication that one or more elements within the recognized hand-drawn table is to be aligned in accordance with the indication, each element being aligned with respect to the element's position in a cell of the table; an aligning module for aligning the one or more elements within the recognized hand-drawn table in accordance with the indication; and a mode recognizer operably coupled to the table editor for switching between inking mode for receiving ink input and ink editing mode for editing the hand-drawn table recognized in the ink input.