Is there a better way for inputing data manually?

Dear All,

I have worked with R for some time. It's a great tool for data analysis. But it's too hard to inputing raw data manually with R (I don't mean importing data. R is good at importing data). Maybe it's not a focused topic in this list, but I don't know other place where I can ask the question. How do you do when inputing data from a paper material, such as questionnaire, or what do you use ?

Best wishes,
Wei-Wei