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If you are looking for something free and decent try MeOCR Image to Text Converter It works better than the other free ones I've tried like FreeOCR and SimpleOCR and it gives you formatted output that can be edited easily. The other ones just give you the text but its not formatted it makes me waste a lot of time reformatting also its pretty simple to use. ...
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I checked few tool like Grammarly, specllcheckplus, writing dynamo and white smoke. I felt white smoke is worst of all.
Grammarly, specllcheckplus and writing dynamo are compete very closely, but I found Grammarly is better than both specllcheckplus and writing dynamo. Still Grammarly doesn't catch all the issues, it catches at least to some extend.
Also ...
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Or, as a suggestion, find someone who does enjoy typing (and happens to be fast and accurate) and pay them to do it. You wouldn't be the first, and I doubt there are writers who wouldn't mind a little extra cash on the side. It's a thought. Try a Craigslist posting for a Ghostwriter, give them a target deadline, and a quote for the price. You might be ...
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Emacs is on the Mac. Just type "emacs" at the terminal.
Emacs supports Unicode and bidirectional text (Arabic), etc.
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/International.html#International
It also comes with a project planner called org-mode (which also includes its own complete publishing system), artist-mode for ASCII art, dired file ...
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You could try out Mellel: http://www.redlers.com/
Apparently it's good at RTL languages which you mentioned you will be using (Arabic, Urdu) and it's cheaper than MS Word etc.
That having been said, I use Scrivener, as various others have mentioned; but I haven't had much experience with multi-lingual documents.
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You won't like this answer, but I'm going to give it anyway.
The best way to convert handwriting into text is to type it up.
Don't skip it just because it's a little tedious. Typing up work is a valuable opportunity for engaging with each word and sentence of the text. Scanning over the text on the screen isn't the same thing. I always use the typing-up ...
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The general approach you are required to take is called "topic-based writing". It's a controversial field and there are mountains of material online about it.
The most well-known tool is an XML specification called DITA. DITA is supported by numerous applications. I recommend using oXygen Author.
Since you have already been given a tool to work with, the ...
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The operating system you are using is probably going to limit your options to some extent or other.
If you are using MacOS or Windows I would highly recommend Scrivener.
You could create a blank project with a single "card" for each of your 50 fields - Scrivener provides a live word and character count for content as you type and has numerous options ...
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The best solution would be OCR Software ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_character_recognition ) since you can scan your pages and it will understand the handwrite and change them to plain text.
Expect a few errors. It's normal, but most of the text will be fine.
A simple review should be enough.
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Almost every computing platform now supports some form of speech recognition software. If you can read your own handwriting, then that offers a cheap and relatively painless way of getting your draft into a text file.
Obviously you should test the software you choose on a few paragraphs before committing to reading in all 25 pages. Some applications have a ...
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Abiword is really light and simple. It looks and feels like Word 2003 so has a minimal learning curve. It is a very small download (<10 Mb). It can save directly to PDF, which makes sharing documents trivial.
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