Best Handwriting Recognition Software – Top OCR Tools

Not really. Handwriting recognition is a hard problem and the failure to crack this was one of the key reasons that the Apple Newton failed. Palm had to make a pseudo-script called 'Graffiti' in order to recognize it, and that was done one letter at a time on a special pad, rather than written as a script.

You could try an OCR program - it might work, but at best you will probably have to spend quite a bit of time fixing up the errors made by the program.

An alternative might be to try something like rentacoder.com and see if you can pay someone to enter the text by hand. There are quite a few people in developing countries who work through this, so it might be possible to get it done quite cheaply. Alternatively, there might also be someone who has a Mechanical Turk application that does this.

There is a training that improves handwriting recognition overall in Windows. There are 50 sentences and you have to train for each language used. However, you can save and transfer these "training files" : Transfer handwriting personalization to another Tablet PC

Yoga member at Surface Forums explains how to find it in Windows 8+ by going to "the handwriting "training". It's in "control panel"/"Time, Language,Region"/"Add Language"/. Edit the Options of the installed language."