Hah, I love it. I hand write a majority of my posts with a fountain pen, then type them up afterwords. If you look through my Hive blog, you will find several posts where I share the handwritten first draft. I handwrite my posts for a lot of the reason you write above. Writing longhand slows us down, makes us more careful about our words, forces us to think.
I'll have to share to your new community in the future.
Note: It could be a good idea to encourage people to also type up their posts and include that under the photo of the handwritten text. As you know, there are several DVing "police" on here who are all too trigger happy when they find posts without at least 300 or so words. In my case, I also write in cursive, which I kind of think many people these days can't read. at least on Mac that is very easy to do. I take a photo of my handwritten pages and it can convert most of even my cursive to text. This saves me tons of time when typing up what I hand wrote, let me tell you.
Oh, that's awesome, I know OCR is a technology that has been around forever, so good to see it still in play. I might have to use it for the same purposes as you mention.
If DV wasn't programmatic setg and forget for so many people, I think HIVE could be a better place.
It would also be a better place if they constantly used the hand written community ;)