Handwriting to text

[diliptimblo]

How do we convert handwriting to text so as to enable us to record handwritten journal entries into the appropriate programs such as Microsoft word, Excel and Accounting software such as Tally. Which software would be most powerful at such handwritten to text conversion?

 

[Alabalcho]

$15/hour freelancer.

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

The software you require to turn paper documents in to digital ones is call OCR (Optical Character Recognition) Software, used in conjunction with a document scanner. However, even the best OCR software is going to struggle to accurately read handwriting as the software is designed to read typewritten documents.

If, however, you wish to have a go using OCR software, the best ones are described here:
https://www.techradar.com/news/best-ocr-software

And this explains more about using OCR software to read handwriting:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/askjack/2014/dec/18/how-can-i-convert-my-handwritten-notes-into-word-documents

 

[CountMike]

ABBY's Fine reader is doing decent job if handwriting is easily legible. My handwriting, well even I have trouble reading