Patent attributes
Systems and methods for providing answers to digitally inked questions within an electronic document. One system includes an electronic processor configured to receive detected interactions between a touchscreen and a digital pen representing one or more digital strokes within a canvas and determine whether the one or more digital strokes match a predetermined signifier. The electronic processor is also configured to, in response to determining that the one or more digital strokes match the predetermined signifier, determine a digital ink instance included in the canvas based on a position of the one or more digital strokes within the canvas, extract text from the digital ink instance, submit the extracted text to an answer service as a query, receive a text-based answer to the query from the answer service, convert the text-based answer to digital ink, and add the digital ink to the canvas.
