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My Handwriting to Text

My Handwriting to Text

Up until a few months ago, I thought that I was going to have to transcribe my handwriting the hard way: by visually looking at my handwriting and typing it into my laptop. In other words, it would take me about double the time to write it and to transcribe it. If it didn’t take me longer than that to do.

For a time there, I was thinking about recording my handwriting and transcribing it that way. With my speech problem, I didn’t think I could do it that way. My voice sounds terrible. I even have trouble listening to it. That’s how bad it is. So, I don’t think that’s a solution to my handwriting problem.

It wasn’t just my terrible voice that stopped me from recording my handwriting. Another problem I had was how I was going to do these recordings. At work, I had background music to deal with, and at home, it was my brother. If he heard me recording my handwriting, he would interrupt me about it.

Of course, instead of recording it, I could just read it into my laptop using Dictation. That would solve my reading it and typing it into my laptop, but it wouldn’t with my brother interrupting me. He could only do it one time, but with him, he could do it a lot more than once. If not a whole lot of times.

Another problem with recordings and dictation is Voice Recognition. Today’s Voice Recognition programs claim that they can understand anyone’s voice no matter how terrible it is, but I’m not sure about that. A few times I have tested it, and it seems to have worked. So, I may be wrong about that.

Don’t ask me how I thought about turning my handwriting into text, because I can’t remember. All I can remember is a few months ago, I started researching the possibility of turning my handwriting into text with Scanning. At first, I didn’t think it would work. Now I’m not so sure.

It has been a very typical second day off from work aka a Tuesday. My brother and I had a lot of things we needed to get done today. What wasn’t normal about today was that it took us all day to do what needed doing. As a result, I had plenty of time to figure out how to transcribe my handwriting into text.

Unfortunately, I’m still not being able to do it. I have been able to scan my handwriting onto my laptop. I’ve already started doing that. Not only to test how it can be transcribed into text but because it needs to be done. I am able to scan my handwriting onto my laptop, but that’s all I have been able to do so far.

Now that I’m starting to handwrite my scripts for my Water Wars scriptwriting project, it’s time to start transcribing my handwriting onto my laptop. If I can’t do it through, converting it into text there is one other way I can do it. It’s like reading and typing it, but it’s not that bad.

Using two screens, I should be able to transcribe my handwriting from my scans to my Word documents. It won’t be as fast as turning my handwriting into text, but it will be faster than just looking and typing it. Especially, since my eyesight isn’t much better than my terrible voice. If it is any better.