A hint that might help at least partially: novadays for managing digital and handwritten notes I juse Joplin, but before that I was an avid Evernote user. Having a paid plan active gives you access to Evernote's OCR function on their backend. I had a lot of handwritten notes uploaded as attachments to Evernote, and I remember that despite my handwritnig being awful their softwre was able to parse it and allow me to, among others, perform quite advanced searches on my handwritten notes. I'm not sure if there's a way to make Evernote's OCR backend work for you in scenarios more elastic that what it's been built for, but I wanted to menion that there's this unique OCR tech that I think does far better job that any standalone OCR software I tried (for my handwriting style which I consider awful). It might be worth researching further for you.