Comment by mavilia
6 months ago
I'm curious how clean is your handwriting? I just did a test run with Claude (pro plan) and it could not understand my iPad + iPencil notes. I expected this since they are close to chicken scratch. ChatGPT told me "I ran OCR on your notes, but the handwriting/scan quality makes the transcription pretty rough—lots of words are garbled."
Then I tried a handwritten note that was some of my average handwriting and it did okay-ish. I think it would be acceptable to use if I also store the original note image with the transcribed text and for basic searching.
I agree with you I prefer writing physically but need a system for digitizing.
I'm honestly not sure how my handwriting is - I haven't had someone ready my handwriting anything outside of math or computer science in a decade. I would guess my handwriting is an average man's. Legible, but might take a sec to read at points.
If I have lines that run to the end of the page and stuff gets garbled, Claude does struggle with that and says it added some assumptions in.