On Pixel phones and many other Android handsets, the default keyboard is Gboard. When it pops up on screen, tap the mic icon ...

The text will be inserted right where your cursor is. This works in almost any app that has standard text input fields—if you can paste text from the clipboard, you can probably scan text from ...

The cloud icon allows (or disallows) Google to use your writing to improve their handwriting recognition. The backspace button removes the character by the cursor location.