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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">SeeingAI used to convert handwriting to text, but now it just attempts to read it aloud…and it’s not as good as it used to be. That’s a shame.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">You can upload an image of the handwritten text to AI and have it converted to digital text.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Gemini: Best AI for image descriptions and handwritten text.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">ChatGPT: Creates great images but can go wildly inaccurate unless using the “Image Braille” GPT. That’s some high-quality system prompting powering that customized GPT.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I have video examples of using Gemini and OpenAI on my mobile device to describe lecture content in a LinkedIn article:
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https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-musings-bridging-tactile-chemistry-lecture-audio-joshua-hori-kyglc/</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Sorry, no video or audio editing tools available. I stream/record on a budget.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From:
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">athen-list <athen-list-bounces@mailman12.u.washington.edu> on behalf of foreigntype@gmail.com via athen-list <athen-list@u.washington.edu><br>
<b>Date: </b>Tuesday, April 8, 2025 at 8:37</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">AM<br>
<b>To: </b>lorraine@rcn.com <lorraine@rcn.com><br>
<b>Cc: </b>Access Technology Higher Education Network <athen-list@u.washington.edu><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [Athen] Handwriting to OCR text<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p>I am unaware of any OCR software that can do both handwriting and text.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Susan's advice is the best: You'll have to do this in several steps. Use a good text based OCR software (Abbyy FineReader or OmnipagePro) for the text and insert (type up the handwriting manually) separately after removing it (by cleaning up) from the original.
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<p>No easy button for this one!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Wink<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">On Tue, Apr 8, 2025, 7:20 AM <<a href="mailto:lorraine@rcn.com">lorraine@rcn.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Wink,<br>
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It is handwriting on a PDF. It is the other software that I am looking for recommendations on.<br>
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