Google Drive™ and Google Docs™ can turn a scan into text, but their built-in conversion was designed for printed type and struggles as soon as the page is handwritten. Handwriting OCR reads handwritten notes, cursive, forms and historical records, and saves the finished result straight back to your Google Drive™ as an editable Google Doc™ or Google Sheet™.

WHAT IT DOES

• Transcribe handwritten notes, letters, journals, forms and ledgers
• Read cursive, messy and historical handwriting that standard OCR misses
• Extract handwritten tables directly into Google Sheets™
• Run it on an email attachment in Gmail™ without downloading the file first
• Use custom extractors to pull named fields from forms you process repeatedly
• Translate into 25 languages
• Export as Google Docs™, Google Sheets™, .docx, .xlsx, CSV or JSON

HOW IT WORKS

1. Open the add-on from Google Drive™ or Gmail™
2. Select a scanned image or PDF
3. Choose what you want back: a transcript, a translation, a table, or a custom extraction
4. The finished file is written to your Google Drive™, next to the document you started from

No downloading, no re-uploading, no copying and pasting between tabs. Setup is a one-time browser sign-in to your Handwriting OCR account.

WHO IT IS FOR

Teams and individuals working with paper that was filled in by hand: intake and job sheets, field reports, survey responses, meeting notes, notebooks, archive material and correspondence.

GETTING STARTED

The add-on connects to a Handwriting OCR account, which includes a free trial so you can test it on your own documents first. Sign up at handwritingocr.com

Google Drive™, Gmail™, Google Docs™ and Google Sheets™ are trademarks of Google LLC. Handwriting OCR is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Google LLC.