Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Can you recommend a quick, easy method for scanning all the pages? The trick is to use a hopper fed scanner that scans both sides at the same time. Not a flat bed scanner. I use an old Fujitsu fi-5120C scanner. I haven't found an OCR yet that will decipher handwriting. I would think that with all the advances in AI this would be an easy problem.
I think the technology has already been around for a while, but probably not big enough of a market for desktop usage. On my iPad as an example, Notability, GoodNotes, and OneNote (and possibly on desktop versions as well) are able to perform handwriting recognition and text conversion
Handwriting recognition when you can watch the person write (stroke order and timing) is actually a very different problem from recognizing handwriting from an image without that data, which is much harder. Though these days statistical learning techniques similar to those used in machine translation are getting pretty darn good at it.