What is the name of the service or job title for typing handwritten manuscripts?
I was thinking about paying someone to type up the handwritten pages of my novel, so that I can go straight to the editing process. (I prefer first drafts to be with pencil.). This way I can juggle more projects. For some reason I assumed this specific job was a transcriptionist, but that is technically for speech. Or am I wrong? Does anyone know what service to whom I can send my handwritten pages and they will type it for a fee?
(I understand this may have been asked; I looked but did not find my exact query. My apologies in advance for such an underwhelming question.)
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I'm used to calling the person who converts handwritten documents into (digital or ink on paper) typed manuscript a typist. They used to be a lot more common; large offices would have a "typing pool" from which, in rotation, typists would be summoned to type a job (such as producing a fair copy of a revised document, making a first draft from a handwritten original, and even just making a copy, before photocopy technology).
Most of those jobs are obsolete now, replaced by technology (word processing, xerography, etc.), but converting handwritten to (digital) typed is still the job of a typist.
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I'm personally fond of the term amanuensis, and while I hardly ever get to use it, this sounds like the perfect legitimate need:
A person employed to write or type what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another
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