While I think your situation is unique, it would be nice if there was an out-of-the-box ML system that could be trained by individuals for any specific use case

While I think your situation is unique, it would be nice if there was an out-of-the-box ML system that could be trained by individuals for any specific use case (such as transcribing letters). In the future, I think this might be the case where you "teach" a computer or program to recognize and do tasks the same way you would a child or pet. PS- Transcribing letters brings to mind an app on the iPhone that I used to use for instant language translation. Can't quite remember what it was called but Google ended up acquiring them for their OCR technology.