For years my mom's recipes lived in three different places: a stack of handwritten index cards, a folder of screenshots from food blogs, and a dozen half-finished Word documents nobody could agree on formatting for. Every holiday someone would ask for "the stuffing recipe" and we'd spend twenty minutes hunting for it.
I finally sat down and tried to turn the mess into an actual printable cookbook. Doing it by hand in a design tool was slow going, since every recipe needed its own layout, and I'm not a designer. Instead I used Cookbook AI, which let me upload the PDFs and photos directly, kept the original recipe text unchanged, and automatically sorted everything into sections like appetizers, mains, and desserts.
It still took some editing on a handful of pages where the scan quality was rough, but it was far faster than starting from a blank template. If you're sitting on a pile of family recipes and keep meaning to organize them, it's worth trying before you give up and just leave them in a drawer.