hello, imho. (!) * if you have a lot of "uniform" pages - read something like A4 -, get yourself a scanner with an automatic sheet-feeder or throw some rainy

hello, imho. (!) * if you have a lot of "uniform" pages - read something like A4 -, get yourself a scanner with an automatic sheet-feeder or throw some rainy-weekend afternoons on it & scan your notes with some decent SOHO scanner * don't get too excessive with resolution, 400+ pixels/inch are enough for OCR ... i always scan with 1200 and reduce the images to 600 px via simple batch-processing / for example imagemagick "convert". * get yourself a decent OCR software, which is able to read your notes ... i'm a big fan of abbyys "finereader", but sadly its prohibitively expensive ... ;) idk how well FOSS OCR software a la tesseract works for hand-written notes. * create pdfs with automatically detected text in the background for search and the scanned image of the notes. it additionally generates XML-metadata & from there: whatever you want (web frontend ... :) just my 0.02€