Textract to the rescue

I have not been writing as much as I need to and it’s impacting my psyche. Today I did a Write to explore that and ironically the process of writing has given me a way forward.

I’m learning from the previous two paragraphs that perhaps more physical writing is required. The ideas flow easily. Creating/writing in my mind (@ 2am!) also flows. Creating while typing slows me down. But it’s inefficient to write, then type!! Not when the cost over the last few weeks has been no creative production at all. Besides, and I’ll use this write to check, handwriting recognition should close the gap.¹

I wrote on my Kindle Scribe and emailed the note to myself requesting a text conversion. Very quickly afterwards Amazon’s Textract had done an almost perfect conversion, such that it only took a couple of minutes to reformat four pages of content. The only issue were my copperplate uppercase I’s converting to 9’s. Easily fixed with find/replace.

Collaboration needs deep connection to succeed came pretty much from my writing without modification.

Footnotes

1. 2025-02-17 ↩