I use a simpler app, Mealboard. Paprika is very pretty but it's definitely for people who like filling out forms. I've looked at the user guide and don't see a good way for adding recipes that aren't online. Mealboard used to let you import from your computer, but I think security issues nowadays prevent it. With their updated interface, you can copy and paste the fields more easily than in Paprika, but that's mostly because it has a simpler level of details. So, it's down to how good are you at typing, and do you have a proper keyboard, or are you stuck with onscreen, only (like on a tablet)?

I'd say see if you can ask Paprika or, if they have it, a user group (there may be an unaffiliated one on Facebook, Reddit or similar, too). From what I can see, however, to go from paper to digital, you'd have to use an OCR (optical character reading) program with a scanner or a good quality screenshot, but if your recipes are clippings, and have strange colors small fonts, etc., they might be error riddled. Once your recipe is digital, you'd probably have to put it online to import it (you can get a free web page sufficient for this).

I think typing it all would be a lot easier but while I'm not a fast typist, I do touch type and am very comfortable doing it. You might not want to go there. A number of years ago, I typed all my clippings and scratchpaper handed down recipes, et al., into Word. It really didn't take that long. Maybe a dozen hours to do what sounds like about one of your binders. Now, when I want to use a recipe from my computer on my iPad, I copy it into the online Mealboard interface, and it syncs to the app. This works fine for me, though I have to remember to check that the recipes are there on the iPad before I go off to cook somewhere else. I'd go nuts trying to import them all at once..

An advantage of having them in Word, some in just Notepad, (and backed up) is that I don't worry that they'll disappear. I haven't been storing the ones I import directly from the web, but I should. I only get new recipes when I'm about to make something new, though, or make up something, so only have a few hundred in the app. Most of my "want to try" ones are in books. Which I might type into the computer/app nowadays rather than scribbling on a paper out of the recycling bin. :)

Good luck!

Every time i make an actual recipe, I put it into a folder on my computer, every time I see a recipe or someone gives me one or someone asks me for one of mine, I type it into the computer. I preface the title with something like cake or pie or beef or chicken and then another descriptive word. I have been doping this for at least 15 years and the file is huge....but I type into search "Cake lemon" and up pop a couple. I still have books and files, but for repeat recipes and quick reference this works really well.

And I have another file wih recipes that I have worked out for large quantities, like "lasagna for 50" and Meat loaf for 150 corn and bean salad for 100....etc.

@LynnNM Interesting that my reply shows here, but not on the index!

LynnNM, too funny. I have a thread that sits at the top of my opened tab that's from 3 years ago. It's a recipe thread, asking how people store their recipes.

You commented that you use binders with sheet protectors, as many of us do, and you were wondering about Paprika.

The thing that I'm cautious about with any online service, is them closing it without notice. My fear is that Houzz/GW will do away with the forums, heaven forbid.

I like hard copies, and I have a number of binders too. Mine aren't even organized, like yours are, just oven, stovetop, desserts. The innards aren't organized.

If you want to read the earlier thread it's here

If you have a scanner, you should be able to "scan to text" to save the files you scan as text. It is not perfect, but it is better now than it used to be.

I've done this in the past, and it worked reasonable well for me.

What type of scanner do you have?

I wish I had an answer, but I just wanted to say, wow, that is a really cool program. I’m going to have to look at it.