How do I convert handwriting to text? Our Rector, who in his own words is a "dinosaur" when it comes to technical matters, writes his sermons in cursive handwriting. It would be good to produce this in printed form, either on paper or for our church website, but no one really wants to spend ages typing the text having already lived through the real thing. Is there any software that might help us?Nigel Lucas, by email The optical character recognition (OCR) software supplied with many scanners is next to useless with handwriting, no matter how neat it is, but there is another option. All you need is a microphone a PC and a text to speech program like Dragon Naturally Speaking. If you can tap into the pulpit microphone you could do it as it happens, otherwise you, or the rector, will have to go through a repeat performance.