Transferring recipes from print to digital?

For those of you who still purchase or otherwise accumulate hard copy recipes, have you found an efficient way to create digital versions without having to retype the recipe? I am thinking about purchasing one of the hand held scanners, and wondered if anyone has one they like or if you have found an alternative solution.

My Epson All-In-One has a flatbed scanner. It came with OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software. I've used it to transfer recipes from cookbooks to MSWord. One time, while visiting my sister in Maine, I used my digital camera with the close-up option to photograph two pages of a cookbook that contained a Lobster Bisque recipe. I then emailed them to myself and when I got home, I was able to use the OCR software to convert it to MSWord. Here is a link to the recipe: http://www.wineloverspage.com/forum/village/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=17967

Thanks, Howie. Glad to hear this works. I will look into scanners a little more.

For those of you who still purchase or otherwise accumulate hard copy recipes, have you found an efficient way to create digital versions without having to retype the recipe? I am thinking about purchasing one of the hand held scanners, and wondered if anyone has one they like or if you have found an alternative solution.

I've been going through my back issues of Bon Appétit. If it's from there (or Gourmet), I look it up on www.epicurious.com and cut and paste it.