Great recommendation, thank you. I have considered this and it’s definitely the simplest way to achieve what I want.
And, doh, took a minute, and realized I'm a dunce.* And now there's at least 3 I can think of off the top of my head, not to mention local.
Training a handwriting recognition AI is universally accessible. What a time to be alive.
* If you're dense like me: they're not saying "any AI" as "any handwriting recognition machine learning model you build from that dataset". They're saying as AI as any multimodal LLM, it'll do in context learning on what you upload.