The most common first step for herbarium sheets, is to image the entire sheet. From there, the images with labels can be shipped to transcribers, who gather the content from the labels and type them in the proper fields. Over the last 7 years, Notes from Nature has been a way to ask for help for this work from public participants, and you have helped us collect data from millions of digital specimen records, building databases of specimen data that would not have been possible without your help. We have been thinking about ways to bring in new technologies to help you with this process. We’ve looked at those typewritten labels, and thought to ourselves: is there a way to automate some parts of this, leaving the most difficult challenges–such as hand-written labels–to our expert team of label puzzlers.