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Overview

Handwriting OCR is an AI-powered platform that converts handwritten notes, forms, and documents into digital text with high accuracy. It offers features like multi-language support, easy exports to various formats, and enterprise-grade security.

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Best for

Short scenarios where Handwriting OCR tends to shine.

  • Digitizing handwritten surveys

    Best for Teachers and Professors

  • Grading papers and assignments faster

    Best for Historical Researchers

  • Transforming historical documents into searchable records

    Best for Personal Writers & Journalers

  • Converting personal writings into searchable digital text

    Best for Business Operations

  • Processing handwritten forms and invoices for business operations

    Best for Students

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Sample generations and before/after results for Handwriting OCR.

Access & connections

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Integrations

API

Public API available

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Capabilities

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Highlights

  • Handwriting to text conversion
  • Multi-language support
  • Easy exports to Microsoft Word and Excel
  • API access
  • AI-enhanced formatting
  • Bank-grade encryption

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FAQ 12

What is Handwriting OCR?
Handwriting OCR is an AI-powered platform that converts handwritten notes, forms, and documents into digital text with high accuracy. It offers features like multi-language support, easy exports to various formats, and enterprise-grade security.
How to use Handwriting OCR?
Upload documents through the secure cloud dashboard or via the API. The platform processes the documents and provides digital text output, which can be exported in various formats.
What is Handwriting OCR?
Handwriting OCR is a document automation service that specialises in digitizing documents containing handwriting. It uses a form of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) developed especially for reading handwriting.
Is this only for handwriting?
Handwriting OCR can (despite the name!) be used to read any kind of text, including all types of printed text. In fact, because handwriting is the most difficult challenge for text recognition, you should expect results from printed text to be even better.
What file formats do you support?
We support a variety of file formats including PDF, JPG, PNG, GIF, HEIC, and TIFF. For multi-page documents, we recommend using PDF format for the best results and most efficient processing. Multiple page TIFF files can also be processed.
Can I process documents in languages other than English?
Yes, our OCR technology supports a wide range of languages and alphabets. Whether you're working with Latin-based scripts, Cyrillic, Arabic, or Asian languages, our system can handle it.
Do you use AI in your OCR process?
Yes, we use advanced AI and machine learning technologies to power our OCR process. This allows us to achieve high accuracy rates, especially with challenging handwritten text. Our AI models are continuously improved to enhance performance and accuracy.
Do you train your AI models on my data?
No, we do not train our AI models on customer data. Our models are pre-trained on a diverse set of public domain and licensed datasets. Your documents are processed using these pre-trained models but are not used to further train or improve the models. This ensures the privacy and confidentiality of your data.
How can I submit my documents for transcription?
Documents are uploaded through our secure cloud dashboard or via the API.
Do you have an API?
Yes, we provide a comprehensive API that allows you to integrate Handwriting OCR directly into your applications. Our API supports all the features available in our web interface, including document uploading, processing, and retrieval of results. Detailed documentation is available to help you get started quickly.
How does your pricing work?
Each page or image processed requires one credit. You can buy credits by subscribing to our service.
Do you offer discounts?
We offer significant discounts on our higher-volume plans. We also offer a 15-20% discount on our annual subscriptions.
Handwriting OCR From $12