Wacom tested a proof-of-concept system with the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) that uses AI to analyze handwritten notes created on Wacom tablets, identify the meaning of text and drawings, and automatically surface relevant information from a knowledge base. This was publicly demonstrated in late 2018 and remains part of Wacom's stated vision for its digital ink platform.

The system uses Wacom's WILL (Wacom Ink Layer Language) framework combined with DFKI's CoMem knowledge management system. AI classifies each pen stroke as handwritten text, a hand-drawn diagram, or a doodle, then performs named entity recognition on the text to identify dates, contacts, topics, and other entities. It then proactively retrieves and presents related information — such as meeting dates, contact details, or related documents — from a personal or enterprise knowledge graph. The proof of concept was publicly demonstrated at the Samsung Developer Conference in November 2018. As of the most recent sources, this remains a research and platform-level capability rather than a shipping end-user product.