I concur. As the pile of notebooks full of barely-legible handwritten scrawl grows and grows, so does the amount of money I'd be willing to pay a company for notebook transcription. Honestly, I don't care if it takes a bloody age -- reCAPTCHA that stuff if you have to -- since I never plan on transcribing them. Scan them to PDF right away, send me the notebooks back (or just give me the PDFs, if they're too low-res to use for reliable transcription), and then at some point send me a text file (or RTF, or whatever non-proprietary format) with the contents.

I would pay two dollars a page for this. Negotiable.