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Re:Ask HN: How to transcribe 1000s of handwritten notes by praving5 on Friday May 31, 2024 @01:14AM (#40531730)
If those notes are really worthy and meaningful to you, then hire someone to type them out for you. If there is something that money can buy, then save your time!
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Re:Ask HN: How to transcribe 1000s of handwritten notes by bckr on Friday May 31, 2024 @01:51PM (#40538218)
You’re right, and thanks to another one of the commenters, I have an idea for how I could do this.

Take my journals, and run a relatively simple word separation algorithm over them.

Shuffle up those words and pay to have them annotated.

Reconstruct the dataset from there.

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Re:Ask HN: How to transcribe 1000s of handwritten notes by smusamashah on Sunday June 02, 2024 @03:07AM (#40552023)
It might be better to provide 2 3 words of context with each separated word. My handwriting is often bad, and I sometimes have to guess a word based on context.
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