Best for
- Families preserving handwritten cards
- Editors preparing digital keepsakes
- Relatives sharing a private recipe archive
Recipe cards to PDF
Turn recipe cards into a PDF
Plan a private workflow for turning handwritten recipe cards into a reviewed PDF with scan order, transcription notes, chapters, and family approval.
What the handoff includes
- Card capture checklist
- Transcription review notes
- PDF chapter plan
- Final approval handoff
Workflow
- Keep original cards in order.
- Capture or scan each card clearly.
- Review the transcription against the source.
- Approve the PDF before family sharing.
Review safeguards
- Do not discard original cards after scanning.
- Do not correct unclear ingredients without family approval.
- Keep source scans separate from the final PDF.
Service boundary
FamilyRecipeLegacyAI helps organize, transcribe, and format private family recipes. It does not provide nutrition, allergy, food safety, legal, or publishing advice. Families should review every ingredient, measure, name, and story before sharing or printing.
When paid recipe book prep is worth it
Buy the $49 starter after the free brief has a small sample or first 8-12 pages, enough context for OCR review, chapter planning, measurement flags, and one family reviewer. Use the $149 full prep when the family needs a fuller private booklet handoff with source mapping, permissions, proof tracking, contributor notes, archive structure, and private sharing planning. Skip payment if you need scanning, perfect OCR, physical printing, public publishing, file-permission changes, messages sent, nutrition, allergy, food-safety, copyright, legal, publishing, or printer advice, or guaranteed transcription, print quality, delivery, refunds, privacy, approval, sales, or revenue.
Does the service scan my cards?
No. It prepares a brief and review checklist for your chosen scanner or editor.
Can the PDF be printed later?
Yes. The brief can include print handoff notes, but printing is handled separately.