Siri AI is absolutely a game changer, so I am not sure if you have even tried it, to be honest it sounds like you have not. The bonus is that you are not giving up your information to a third party and it has additional security protections such as Private Cloud Compute where you are not outsourcing your data putting it in someone else's control.
As an example, I had a picture of a recipe sent to me and with that picture on my screen, I asked Siri AI to add this recipe to my Notes app. Guess what, everything was transcribed perfectly from the picture and placed in a Recipe folder of the Notes app with the title of the Recipe and the formatting you would expect in a recipe. It was not the picture added to the Notes app, it was likely I had actually typed it.