Handwriting to text

[Beskar]

Well, you could always just scan the stuff and read it as a picture format. This is something which is often done with patient care-records in healthcare, as it minimizes errors significantly, plus you know about doctors handwriting, it is barely legible to human eyes.

But to do this, you require a scanner which is able to use discern the differences (I forgot the actual name of what it is called. Alpha-optic? Probably something technobabble like that, I remember having one) which costs closer to £70-100 mark, instead of your typical cheap printer-scanner of £20-30, and then you need the software to do it. This also requires your handwriting to be "neat" (like, spaced clear lettering neat), and even then, you will need to proof read the results to ensure you get it correct. In my honest opinion, it wasn't worth the hassle.

So your solutions are this:

1) Get the hardware and software to do it, you still need to proof read, and it is time consuming.
2) Put it infront of you and type it out by hand. (cheaper and quicker than 1).
3) Get access to a industry-scale scanner/photocopier, and just mass-scan all of your documents into a picture format. (significantly faster and cheaper than everything else)
4) Use your personal scanner to just take a scan of your documents in a picture format. (significantly slower than 3, faster than 1 and 2.)