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Convert handwriting to text

Upload handwritten notes as a PDF or image, or paste a link. Read the extracted text page by page, copy it and download it as Word, TXT or structured JSON.

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Illustration
Lecture 4 — Cell membranes

- Phospholipid bilayer: hydrophilic heads face out,
  hydrophobic tails face in
- Proteins: integral (span the membrane) vs
  peripheral (attached to one side)
- Fluid mosaic model (Singer & Nicolson, 1972)

Q for Thursday: why does cholesterol make the
membrane less fluid at high temperatures?
Word (.docx).txt.json (per page)
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What people use it for

Lecture notes

Turn clear handwritten lecture notes into text that students and lecturers can read, copy and download.

Manuscripts and journals

Convert clear modern handwriting from manuscripts, journals and research notes, then check it against the original.

Handwritten forms

Give small offices a text version of handwritten forms without retyping every page.

How it works

  1. 1

    Upload your notes

    Choose a PDF or image in JPG, PNG, GIF or WebP format, up to 25 MB, or paste a link.

  2. 2

    Read the extracted text

    Your text comes back page by page. Long PDFs are read a few pages at a time so every page is returned, and any page that might be incomplete is named.

  3. 3

    Check, copy or download

    Compare the result with the original, especially names, dates and numbers. Copy all the text or one page, or download Word, TXT or JSON.

How it compares

The problem

  • Free OCR engines often fail on handwriting.
  • In our test, the open-source engine behind many free OCR sites got more than half the characters wrong on the same handwritten pages.

With Presentr Analyze

  • Clear modern handwriting reads well.
  • In our tests, clear handwritten pages had only a few characters wrong per hundred.
  • The result is shown page by page so you can check it against the original.
  • Old scripts, faded ink and low-resolution photos are not reliable here either; use a sharper photo or scan.

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Turn handwritten pages into text

Start with 5 credits. Upload your notes, check the page-by-page result and download it as Word, TXT or structured JSON.

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