Indeed—except for the cost of time, attention, energy, wrist and neck pain.

This is something I want done eventually, and I’m smelling the flowers on the way there.

This HN comment thread is one of the flowers on the path to my OCR pure land zen state

Having experience of this, it's fun to explore technological solutions but at the end of the day, re-reading while transcribing is a lot more enjoyable than quality checking and correcting OCR results - especially if you have bad handwriting.

Good luck with whatever approach you choose!