In February, a customer opened a live chat with a plain request: a will, a power of attorney and a healthcare directive, all written out by hand, turned into clean typed documents with printed copies mailed to him. There was one obstacle. He described himself as not very tech savvy and had no way to scan twenty pages of drafts. Our consultant pointed him to a copy shop near his home that could scan them and send them over. The typed documents came back the next morning, went through two rounds of corrections in one afternoon, and a shipping label with a tracking number followed that evening, six days early.<\/p>\n
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The request arrived by live chat on a Monday afternoon in February: “Need a will, power of attorney and advance directive typed and backed. 2 originals.” The drafts existed on paper only, and he wanted clean typed versions plus printed sets he could keep. Explore our legal document services<\/a> for details.<\/p>\n Our consultant offered a secure upload link and explained that a clear photo of each page would be enough. The reply came back: “Not very tech savvy. Any chance I could drop them off?” He was in Philadelphia, far from our Midtown office, so our consultant asked for his zip code and named a copy shop a few minutes from home. That shop was a drop-off and scanning point only; the legal document typing<\/a> is done by our own team.<\/p>\n He went the next morning. Three PDFs arrived late that morning: twenty pages, roughly 4,600 words, every one containing handwritten sections. Our file review marked one as difficult, noting a lot of corrections inside the handwritten text. The quote set a turnaround of four to five business days, and delivery was scheduled for 5 PM Eastern the following Tuesday.<\/p>\n The typist worked from the scans that evening. The hardest was the file our review had flagged: six pages carrying a lot of corrections written into the handwritten text, where an inserted line, a struck-out clause and a margin note must be read in the order the writer intended. The three typed documents were emailed the next morning as editable Word files, six days before the promised date.<\/p>\n Our consultant asked him to check the soft copies before anything went to print. Just before midday he sent back a tidy list, document by document. In the durable general power of attorney: a word typed as a plural where his draft was singular, a family surname misspelled, and a year reading 2021 instead of 2026 in the final sentence. In the will: the same surname in three paragraphs and the same wrong year in the acknowledgement and affidavit. In the healthcare power of attorney: the surname again, plus a corrected email address. The revised set came back under three hours later.<\/p>\n Half an hour later he wrote again. “I missed one thing. Under the witness’ attestation in the Will, please change ‘his’ request to ‘her’ request. Very sorry. Otherwise fine. Please print and forward.” A single pronoun, in the paragraph the witnesses sign. The corrected will came back inside an hour and a half.<\/p>\n His approval was one word: “Confirmed.” With the digital files signed off, printing began at once. Two copies of everything were produced, and the shipping label was created that evening, with a tracking number emailed to him and a transit time of two to three business days. The Word files were sent again the next morning.<\/p>\n Three clean typed legal documents, each checked line by line against the handwritten originals by the person who wrote them, and two printed sets on their way. From the first chat message to the shipping label took just over two days, against a delivery date six days further out.<\/p>\n Retyping is not drafting and it is not editing. The typist reproduces what is on the page in a clean layout and leaves the substance to you and your attorney. A complete job covers:<\/p>\n Layout matters more than people expect on estate papers, where a shifted paragraph number can send a reader to the wrong clause. Our document formatting<\/a> page covers that side of the work.<\/p>\n Not everyone owns a scanner, and nobody should buy one for a single job.<\/p>\n In this story the pages reached us within a day. Our handwritten typing<\/a> team works from photos and scans every day, including drafts with heavy corrections.<\/p>\n The review stage is the inexpensive stage. Once hard copies are printed and posted, a correction means doing both again.<\/p>\n Four of those came up in this order: a misspelled surname, a wrong year, a pronoun and a plural that should have been singular. None was hard to fix, and all would have been costly to find after printing.<\/p>\n Handwritten drafts turn up across New York for all kinds of reasons: a will written out longhand years ago, a power of attorney drafted at a kitchen table, pages of dictation that never reached a file. New Yorkers who would rather hand over paper than photograph it can bring documents to our office at 224 W 35th St #1200-8, New York, NY 10001, 12th floor, between Seventh and Eighth Avenues.<\/p>\n The 1, 2, 3, A, C and E trains stop at 34th Street\u2013Penn Station and the B, D, F, M, N, Q, R and W trains at 34th Street\u2013Herald Square, with Port Authority a short walk west. Printed copies can be collected in person or mailed, as they were here. See our typing services<\/a>, or read how a handwritten manuscript was typed in New York<\/a>.<\/p>\n Photograph each page with your phone and send the images by email, by text or through our upload link. If that is impractical, tell us your zip code and we will name the nearest drop-off and scanning point. In this story the customer used a copy shop near his home, which scanned twenty pages for him.<\/p>\n It depends on the page count and how heavily the pages are annotated. A long draft with corrections written into the text takes longer to read than to type. Your quote states the delivery date before you pay. In this story, twenty pages were quoted at four to five business days and the typed files arrived the next morning.<\/p>\n No, and that is deliberate. Retyping reproduces your document as written, because in legal papers a word that looks like a mistake can be the wording you chose. If something looks like a slip, we flag it rather than change it. Anything you want altered can be marked up at the review stage.<\/p>\n Editable Word files by default, so you can make future changes without retyping anything. PDF can be supplied as well if you prefer a fixed layout. If you have ordered printed copies, those are produced from the version you approve, and we can print more than one set.<\/p>\n Tell us and we will fix it. Revisions are free for 30 days after delivery, and corrections are usually returned within 24\u201348 hours. Sending a short list, document by document and paragraph by paragraph, is the fastest route to a clean result. If hard copies are already printed, tell us quickly.<\/p>\n Yes. Printing and mailing can be added to any typing order, with spare sets if you want them. Hard copies are produced only after you approve the digital version, and a tracking number is emailed once the package goes to the courier. Copies can also be collected at our Midtown office.<\/p>\nHow We Handled It<\/h3>\n
Reading twenty handwritten pages, one file heavily amended<\/h4>\n
The first round of corrections<\/h4>\n
The one detail he almost missed<\/h4>\n
Printing and mailing the same evening<\/h4>\n
The Result<\/h3>\n
What Retyping a Handwritten Legal Draft Involves<\/h3>\n
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How to Send Us Pages If You Do Not Scan<\/h3>\n
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Checking a Typed Draft Before Anything Is Printed<\/h3>\n
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Handwritten Legal Papers, Typed in Midtown Manhattan<\/h3>\n
Frequently Asked Questions<\/h3>\n
How do I send you documents if I cannot scan them?<\/h4>\n
How long does retyping a handwritten document take?<\/h4>\n
Will you correct spelling and grammar in my draft?<\/h4>\n
What format do I get back?<\/h4>\n
What if I find a mistake after I have approved the files?<\/h4>\n
Can you print and mail hard copies?<\/h4>\n
Have Handwritten Documents That Need Typing?<\/h3>\n