Handwritten notes into onenote

I have 30 – 40 pages of handwritten notes I want to load into Onenote as normal text but would prefer to avoid re-typing them if at all possible.

I have scanned them so now hold the notes as pdf’s and tried the native OCR in Onenote to convert to text. This hasn’t worked as on reading up it appears more focused on recognising printed text than handwriting.

Is there any useful software packages / apps that may be more successful at reading my handwriting?

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Google translate[/url] can process files (use the ‘translate a document’ link), so might have better luck in OCRing your scanned PDF.

Tried MS Office Lens?

Assuming you can read your own writing, just load the pdfs into OneNote as pictures. You could add tags & titles to aid searching later.

Regardless of what anyone says – OCR on handwriting (even printed) is crap and doesn’t work.
…. and I use OCR software costing >£10k!

Onenote is quite good if you write onto a tablet and correct as you go

No idea about reading scans….

Just read them back into the pc using a speech to text program…

I did a document by reading it into an email on my iPhone once. Worked quite well.