Handwriting to Text

Upload an image of handwritten or printed text and convert it to digital text using browser-based OCR.

How it works

Tesseract.js performs OCR entirely in your browser. The first run downloads language data (~4 MB) which is then cached. Your image is never sent to a server.

Best results

Works best with clearly printed or typed text. Cursive handwriting recognition is harder — use high-contrast, well-lit photos. Clean printed text achieves 90%+ accuracy.

Language

Click or drag & drop an image

PNG, JPG, WebP, TIFF supported

Handwriting to Text — Browser OCR with Tesseract.js

This tool uses Tesseract.js, the JavaScript port of the industry-standard Tesseract OCR engine, to recognise text in images directly in your browser. It supports 20 languages including English, French, German, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, and Hindi. The OCR engine achieves high accuracy on clearly printed or typed text — machine-printed documents, forms, business cards, and screenshots work very well. Handwritten cursive text is significantly harder to recognise accurately; block capital handwriting performs much better. For best results, use a high-resolution, well-lit photo with good contrast. Language data is downloaded once and cached locally in your browser.