Who this is for
Practices and firms digitising paper records, archives, historical documents, or handwritten forms.
How document transcription works
Document transcription is priced per page rather than per minute, because the work scales with pages rather than time. At $2.50 per page it covers scanned records, typed pages, filled paper forms, and handwriting.
Optical character recognition handles clean typed text reasonably well on its own. It handles handwriting, faded carbon copies, annotated margins, and completed forms far less reliably - which is why every document is reviewed by a person against the source image before delivery.
Output is returned as editable text, so a filing cabinet of paper records becomes something you can search, and a stack of handwritten intake forms becomes structured data rather than a scanning backlog.
What is included
- Human review against the source image
- Handwriting and annotated margins transcribed
- Filled paper forms captured field by field
- PDF, DOCX, and common image formats accepted
- Editable text output
- Encrypted handling with access logging
Pricing
$2.50 per page
A $25 minimum applies to audio and document orders.
Document Transcription questions
How much does document transcription cost per page?
$2.50 per page, with a $25 minimum per order. A page is counted as a standard page of content; unusually dense pages are flagged and quoted before work starts rather than after.
Can you transcribe handwritten documents?
Yes, and this is where human review earns its cost. OCR alone is unreliable on handwriting, faded copies, and margin annotations - the reviewer works from the source image rather than trusting the machine output.
What file formats can I send?
PDF, DOCX, and common image formats including JPEG, PNG, and WebP. Scans and clear photographs of documents both work.
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