Information processing apparatus and control method

A control method for an information processing apparatus including touch sensor capable of detecting handwritten input and a display capable of displaying a trajectory of the handwritten input, the control method comprising:

• recognizing, by a processor of the information processing apparatus, text based on the handwritten input detected by the touch sensor;
• predicting, by the processor, text candidates following the text based on the recognized;
• synthesizing, by the processor, the text candidates into handwritten characters by combining first generation processing to generate handwritten characters based on tokens, each of which is a set of one or more handwriting strokes, collected from the handwritten input by a user, and second generation processing to generate handwritten characters based on a conversion model prepared in advance for converting text characters to handwritten characters,
• wherein a memory of the information processing apparatus stores a lookup table in which token information indicative of each of the tokens is associated with each text string;
• and
• displaying, by the processor on the display, the handwritten characters corresponding to the text candidates,
• wherein the first generation processing generates handwritten characters corresponding to a character string that matches the text string stored in the memory among the text candidates, and
• wherein the second generation processing generates handwritten characters corresponding to characters that do not match the text string stored in the memory among the text candidates.