text recognition software

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Hire a typist?

Doctors used to and may still do use typists to transcribe voice memos and other written notes.

I used to know an elderly, retired woman who could type like a fiend and would take anything and make it into a properly formatted word document. I don't remember what she charged but it had to be cheaper than scanning, converting, correcting and saving all that writing.

I've used several OCR applications over the years and none of them were very good, even with printed text, and more so if it was uneditable text, e.g. a jpeg of text.

Maybe things have changed but i don't tknow.

There is some sort of software that learns your hand writing and creates a typeface that looks just like your handwriting. That may be a step to then teaching an OCR application to recognize THAT typeface.

Good luck, keep us posted. I'd like to be able to do this because I write freehand and then have to type what I wrote, if I could scan it it might be easier since I am a mediocre typist at best, and can't afford to pay someone to type for me.