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English
- Handwritten ContentTurn handwritten letters, diaries, field notebooks and meeting notes into text, with margin additions, arrows and crossings-out kept in reading order.
- Forms and QuestionnairesRead completed forms, applications and questionnaires so every answer stays tied to its printed field, with ticks, blanks and skipped questions marked.
- Scanned DocumentsRead scanned reports, memos and typescripts in the right order, with stamps, marginalia, running heads and scan artefacts handled as what they are.
- Business and Financial DocumentsRead invoices, receipts, ledgers and statements so every amount stays on its own line, with subtotals, tax flags, item codes and ditto marks preserved.
- Screenshots and Digital CapturesRead screenshots so interface labels stay apart from what people wrote, keeping handles, timestamps, badges, counts and text cut off by an ellipsis.
- Educational MaterialsTurn textbook pages, worksheets, handouts and marked-up class notes into text, with equations, numbered exercises and teacher corrections kept apart.
- Whiteboards and Workshop MaterialsCapture whiteboards, flip charts and walls of sticky notes as structured text, keeping clusters, arrows, colours and each note separate from the next.
- Signs, Labels, and Printed MaterialsRead shop signs, packaging, notices and newspaper pages, keeping the size hierarchy, prices, units, date codes and the words inside a logo.
- Official and Identity DocumentsRead certificates, permits, applications and travel papers as fields: names, numbers, dates, stamps and signatures, with personal data handled deliberately.
- Tables and Structured ContentTurn printed tables, timetables and scored forms into rows and columns, keeping merged cells, stacked headers, blank cells and footnote markers.
- Old English Insular Manuscriptsc. 700–1066Transcribe Old English manuscripts in Insular and square minuscule: wynn, thorn, eth, Insular g and the Tironian ⁊, on real folios with checked transcriptions.
- English Manuscriptsc. 1060–1220Transcribe post-Conquest English books: Insular letters inside Caroline and early Gothic hands, in chronicles, law codes, Domesday and glossed psalters.
- Later Middle English Manuscriptsc. 1250–1500Transcribe Anglicana, secretary and Textualis hands: yogh and thorn, minim thickets, con- and per- brevigraphs, pilcrows and tail-rhyme brackets.
- Tudor and Jacobean Secretary, Italic, and Mixed Handsc. 1500–1650Transcribe English secretary, italic and mixed hands: letters, bonds, accounts and registers, with superscript contractions and Roman-numeral money kept.
- Round Hand and Georgian Administrative Recordsc. 1650–1800Transcribe English round hand and engrossing hand: indentures, receipt books, ledgers and registers, with long s, ditto marks and pounds, shillings and pence.
Latin
- Roman Capitals and Cursive Documentsc. 100 BCE–500 CETranscribe Roman square and rustic capitals and Old and Later Roman Cursive from wax tablets, papyri and painted walls, checked against the object.
- Late Antique Uncial and Half-Uncial Codicesc. 300–700Transcribe fourth- to seventh-century Latin uncial and half-uncial codices – biblical, patristic and classical – with nomina sacra kept intact.
- Insular, Visigothic, and Beneventan Latinc. 650–1100Transcribe Irish, Visigothic and Beneventan Latin – three unrelated regional scripts – on real gospel books, commentaries and monastic texts.
- Carolingian and Romanesque Minusculec. 750–1150Transcribe the reformed Latin hand of Charlemagne’s scriptoria and its denser Romanesque successor, from gospel books to royal capitularies.
- Gothic and Humanistic Latin Manuscriptsc. 1100–1500Transcribe dense Gothic charters and glossed Bibles alongside the humanistic hand Poggio Bracciolini revived, on real documents and manuscripts.
German
- Old High German in Carolingian and Insular Manuscriptsc. 750–1050Transcribe Old High German glosses, charms and gospel harmonies copied in Caroline and Insular hands, from the Abrogans to Tatian, with checked readings.
- Middle High German Gothic Book Handsc. 1050–1400Transcribe Middle High German epics, courtly romance, Minnesang and law codes copied in Gothic Textualis, from the Nibelungenlied to the Sachsenspiegel.
- Late Medieval and Early Modern German Chancery Handsc. 1400–1650Transcribe notarial deeds, Reformation letters and diplomatic newsletters written in Kanzleischrift and humanist cursive, c. 1400 to 1650.
- German Kurrent Administrative and Personal Handsc. 1650–1915Transcribe two and a half centuries of German Kurrent: parish registers, personal letters and colonial correspondence, with checked readings.
- Sütterlin and Late Kurrentc. 1911–1941Transcribe Sütterlin school hands, personal letters and wartime postcards from the last thirty years German schools taught a running hand.
French
- Old French in Caroline and Proto-Gothic Manuscriptsc. 900–1200Transcribe the earliest French: the Strasbourg Oaths, Eulalie, the Clermont Passion and the Oxford Roland in Caroline and proto-Gothic book hands.
- French Gothic Textualis Manuscriptsc. 1200–1400Transcribe French textualis: an architect’s notebook, the Bible historiale, Machaut and the Roman de la Rose, with checked readings where editions exist.
- French Bâtarde and Cursive Documentary Handsc. 1350–1500Transcribe lettre bâtarde and chancery cursive: royal letters patent, a Parlement register, a letter of Jeanne d’Arc and a 1474 censier.
- French Renaissance Secretary and Humanistic Handsc. 1500–1650Transcribe French secretary, italic and hybrid hands: Henri IV’s autograph letters, the Edict of Nantes, Montaigne’s marginalia and a notary’s will.
- French Notarial and Administrative Handsc. 1650–1800Transcribe French minutes, registers and royal letters of 1650–1800: Molière’s marriage contract, a lettre de rémission, a parish act, 1789.
Spanish
- Iberian Visigothic Manuscripts and Chartersc. 700–1200Transcribe Iberian Visigothic minuscule and cursive: the open a, the ti ligature, the tailed z behind ç, era dates and chrismons, on real folios and charters.
- Castilian Gothic and Albalá Handsc. 1200–1450Transcribe Castilian Gothic writing: letra de privilegios, letra de albalaes and codices, with their minim strings, contractions, era dates and ruedas.
- Cortesana Court and Chancery Documentsc. 1400–1550Transcribe Spanish cortesana: the looped court hand of royal cédulas, chancery ejecutorias and notarial receipts, with its fused words and rúbricas.
- Procesal and Procesal Encadenada Recordsc. 1500–1650Transcribe Spanish procesal and procesal encadenada: chained notarial and court writing, with its lost word breaks, legal contractions, numerals and rúbricas.
- Spanish Colonial Humanistic and Mixed Handsc. 1550–1800Transcribe the documents of the Spanish Indies: viceregal letters, cabildo books, parish and mission papers in mixed humanistic, cortesana and procesal hands.
Arabic
- Early Islamic Arabic Papyri and Administrative Handsc. 640–900Transcribe seventh- to ninth-century Arabic papyri and documents: undotted rasm, fiscal formulae and Greek alongside Arabic, with checked readings.
- Early Qurʾanic and Kufic Codicesc. 700–1000Transcribe hijāzī and Kufic Qurʾan folios: bare rasm, red and gold vowel points added later, verse rosettes and stretched line-ends.
- Mashriqi Naskh and Related Book Handsc. 1000–1500Transcribe eastern Arabic book hands: naskh codices, ligatures and vowel signs, catchwords, colophons and margins packed with glosses.
- Maghribi and Andalusi Manuscriptsc. 1000–1800Transcribe western Arabic hands from al-Andalus, Morocco and Timbuktu: fāʾ dotted below, qāf dotted above, coloured vowels and crowded margins.
- Ottoman-Era Arabic Naskh and Ruqʿah Documentsc. 1600–1950Transcribe Arabic from 1600 to 1950: careful naskh copies, fast ruqʿah notes and drafts, and the first printed books, gazettes and magazines.
Ottoman Turkish
- Early Ottoman Naskh and Taʿliq Manuscriptsc. 1350–1500Transcribe early Ottoman Turkish in naskh and taʿlik: missing dots, Persian pe and gaf, Arabic quotations and the old spellings of the first Ottoman centuries.
- Classical Ottoman Naskh and Nastaʿliq Manuscriptsc. 1500–1800Transcribe Ottoman naskh and nastaʿliq: sloping baselines, izafet chains, marginal glosses and Arabic and Persian passages inside a Turkish text.
- Ottoman Dīvānī Imperial and Diplomatic Documentsc. 1500–1900Transcribe fermans, berats and ahidnames in dīvānī: rising interlocked lines, filler dots, tughras, pençe signatures and decade dates.
- Ottoman Siyāqat Fiscal and Land Registersc. 1500–1875Transcribe siyāqat accounts and land records: dotless shorthand words, treasury numerals written out in Arabic, column headings and marginal sums.
- Printed Ottoman Turkish and Ruqʿah Manuscript Materialc. 1729–1928Transcribe Ottoman books, gazettes and handwritten ruqʿah from the Müteferrika press to the 1928 alphabet reform, with dates in three calendars.
Italian
- Italian Vernacular Gothic Textualisc. 1200–1400Transcribe Trecento Italian verse and prose in rotunda textualis: biting bows, r rotunda, ç and k spellings, tironian et and rubricated tercets, on real folios.
- Italian Mercantesca Accounts and Correspondencec. 1250–1550Transcribe Italian merchant hands: dare-and-avere ledgers, Datini letters, insurance policies, Roman numerals in lire, soldi and denari, and Florentine dating.
- Italian Cancelleresca and Notarial Handsc. 1300–1600Transcribe Italian notarial instruments, chancery contracts and papal bulls: suspended formulae, tabellion signs, indiction dates and Latin mixed with volgare.
- Italian Humanistic Minuscule and Cursivec. 1400–1600Transcribe Renaissance humanistic hands: littera antiqua and sloping cursive, ae ligatures, q; abbreviations, display capitals, marginalia and authors’ drafts.
- Early Modern Italian Italic and Mixed Documentary Handsc. 1500–1700Transcribe Italian letters and records of 1500–1700: italic and mixed hands, V.S. Ill.ma abbreviations, secretaries’ hands, autograph signatures and dockets.
Dutch
- Middle Dutch Gothic Book Handsc. 1200–1500Transcribe Middle Dutch textualis and hybrida manuscripts: minim strings, r rotunda, long s, y and ij, with checked texts from Beatrijs and the Gruuthuse songs.
- Burgundian and Habsburg Dutch Chancery Handsc. 1400–1600Transcribe Dutch charters, privileges, minute books and placards, c. 1400–1600: bâtarde loops, chancery formulas, Roman numeral dates, seals and subscriptions.
- Dutch Republic Commercial and Secretary Handsc. 1550–1700Transcribe seventeenth-century Dutch notarial acts, merchant papers and letters: looped secretary cursive, guilders and stuivers, ditto marks and signatures.
- Dutch East India Company and Colonial Recordsc. 1600–1800Transcribe VOC and Dutch colonial records: ship journals, dispatches, council minutes and cargo lists, with names spelled by ear in a dozen tongues.
- Dutch Church, Civil, and Notarial Handsc. 1700–1900Transcribe Dutch registers, civil-status certificates, notarial deeds and letters from 1700 to 1900, as the old Gothic cursive gives way to a round school hand.
Portuguese
- Portuguese Visigothic Manuscripts and Chartersc. 800–1200Transcribe Visigothic charters and codices from Portugal: open a, looped t, the z behind ç, Era dating clauses and columns of witness signa.
- Portuguese Gothic Documentary Handsc. 1200–1400Read Portuguese charters, drafts and cancioneiros of the Gothic centuries: minim strings, r rotunda, nasal tildes and the first acts drawn up in the vernacular.
- Cortesão and Johannine Chancery Handsc. 1385–1520Transcribe the cortesã chancery writing of the Avis kings: looped ascenders, letters threaded through one another, royal sinais and heavy contraction.
- Portuguese Processual and Encadeada Recordsc. 1500–1650Transcribe Portuguese processual and encadeada writing: chained words, few pen lifts, notarial rubricas and the contractions of Inquisition and court files.
- Portuguese Colonial Italic and Mixed Handsc. 1550–1900Transcribe Portuguese parish, notarial and colonial paperwork: italic mixed with older forms, superscript honorifics, and names carried in from four continents.
Russian
- Church Slavonic Ustav Manuscriptsc. 1000–1400Transcribe eleventh- to fourteenth-century ustav: yat, the yus letters, titla, letter-numerals and unspaced lines, on real folios with checked readings.
- Church Slavonic Poluustav and Vyazc. 1300–1700Transcribe poluustav manuscripts and early Cyrillic printing, and unpick vyaz headings where letters share masts and nest inside one another.
- Muscovite Skoropis Documentsc. 1500–1700Transcribe Russian chancery cursive of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: raised endings, looped ligatures, prikaz formulae and column scrolls.
- Imperial Russian Civil Script and Cursivec. 1700–1850Transcribe post-Petrine Russia: grazhdansky shrift in print and the looping cursive of chanceries, petitions and literary autographs, 1700 to 1850.
- Late Imperial Pre-Reform Russian Recordsc. 1850–1918Transcribe pre-reform Russian: yat, decimal i, fita and the final hard sign in parish registers, newspapers, forms and official acts down to 1918.
Chinese
- Shang Oracle-Bone Inscriptionsc. 1250–1046 BCETranscribe Shang jiaguwen from plastrons, scapulae and rubbings: divination charges, ganzhi day signs and graphs that have no modern character equivalent.
- Western and Eastern Zhou Bronze Inscriptionsc. 1046–221 BCETranscribe jinwen cast inside Zhou ritual vessels: rubbings and object photographs, clan emblems, ligatured numerals and graphs that predate the seal script.
- Warring States and Qin Bamboo or Silk Manuscriptsc. 500–206 BCETranscribe Chu bamboo slips, Qin wooden documents and silk manuscripts: regional graph variants, repetition marks, broken slips and uncertain slip order.
- Han Clerical-Script Manuscripts and Documentsc. 206 BCE–220 CETranscribe Han lishu on wooden strips, sealing tags and stele rubbings: garrison registers, cursive drafts, cut characters and the Xiping stone classics.
- Medieval to Late Imperial Classical Chinese Manuscriptsc. 220–1900Transcribe Dunhuang scrolls, Song prints and late imperial manuscripts: unpunctuated columns, half-size commentary, variant graphs, seals and colophons.
Japanese
- Nara and Heian Man'yōgana and Early Kanac. 700–1100Transcribe Nara and Heian pages: man'yōgana, early cursive kana, kanbun reading marks and sealed provincial documents, with checked transcriptions.
- Medieval Japanese Kana and Kanbun Documentsc. 1100–1600Read Kamakura, Nanbokuchō and Sengoku material: land grants with kaō, cursive kana letters, diaries in hentai-kanbun and literary manuscripts.
- Edo-Period Kuzushiji Manuscriptsc. 1600–1868Transcribe handwritten Edo material: connected kuzushiji and hentaigana in diaries, petitions, price lists, testaments and literary copies.
- Edo-Period Woodblock Print and Hentaiganac. 1600–1868Transcribe Edo printed books: carved cursive kana, hentaigana, furigana beside every kanji and text set around the illustrations.
- Meiji Transitional Cursive and Pre-Standard Kanac. 1868–1900Transcribe Meiji sources: official katakana notices in metal type, woodblock hentaigana, historical kana spelling and handwritten ledgers.
Persian
- Early New Persian Kufic and Naskh Manuscriptsc. 900–1200Transcribe early New Persian in eastern Kufic and naskh: interlinear Qurʾan glosses, unwritten short vowels, and پ چ ژ گ hiding inside Arabic letters.
- Persian Chancery Taʿliqc. 1200–1500Read Ilkhanid, Jalayirid and Aq Qoyunlu farmans in taʿliq: hanging lines, letters joined that should not join, seals and endorsements at every angle.
- Classical Persian Nastaʿliq Literary Manuscriptsc. 1400–1700Transcribe Persian poetry in nastaʿliq: falling word groups, letters piled inside a word, ruled columns, diagonal hemistichs and margins full of glosses.
- Persian Shikasta Nastaʿliq Correspondencec. 1650–1900Read shikasta letters, petitions and farmans: letters joined that should not join, dots dropped or displaced, rising lines and margins full of endorsements.
- Indo-Persian Nastaʿliq Administrative and Literary Handsc. 1500–1900Transcribe Mughal and successor-state Persian: farmans with tughras and seals, revenue figures in siyāq, deeds, letters and court poetry in Indian nastaʿliq.
Hebrew
- Masoretic Hebrew Biblical Codicesc. 900–1300Transcribe pointed Hebrew biblical codices: consonants, Tiberian vowels, cantillation signs and the marginal Masorah, on folios with checked verse ranges.
- Cairo Geniza Hebrew, Aramaic, and Judeo-Arabic Documentsc. 900–1300Transcribe Geniza fragments: Judeo-Arabic letters, Aramaic court deeds and Hebrew literary leaves, with torn edges, margins and show-through handled.
- Ashkenazi Hebrew and Yiddish Manuscriptsc. 1200–1800Transcribe Ashkenazi square and semi-cursive hands: mahzorim with pointed piyyutim, Old Yiddish story books, acrostics in red and abbreviations by the line.
- Sephardi Hebrew Semi-Cursive and Rashi-Type Handsc. 1200–1800Transcribe Sephardi square and semi-cursive Hebrew and the Rashi type cut from it, including Mikraot Gedolot pages with commentary wrapped round the text.
- Ladino Solitreo Correspondence and Recordsc. 1600–1950Transcribe Judeo-Spanish written in Hebrew letters: Solitreo cursive in letters and contracts, Rashi type in printed books and the Ottoman Ladino press.
Greek
- Archaic and Classical Greek Inscriptionsc. 750–323 BCETranscribe archaic and classical Greek inscriptions: epichoric alphabets, boustrophedon and stoichedon layout, acrophonic numerals, with checked texts.
- Hellenistic and Roman Greek Papyric. 300 BCE–400 CETranscribe Greek papyri from Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt: documentary cursive, book hands, suspensions, symbols and letter numerals, with checked texts.
- Greek Biblical Majuscule and Uncial Codicesc. 300–900Transcribe Greek biblical majuscule and uncial codices: nomina sacra, unspaced columns, correctors and marginal apparatus, with checked passages.
- Byzantine Greek Minuscule Manuscriptsc. 800–1453Transcribe Byzantine Greek minuscule: ligatures, superscript endings, tachygraphic signs, scholia and colophons, with checked passages from edited texts.
- Post-Byzantine Greek Manuscripts and Scholarly Handsc. 1450–1800Transcribe post-Byzantine Greek: emigre copyists, Aldine ligature types, annotated printed books and scholarly cursive, with checked passages from edited texts.
Sanskrit
- Siddham Buddhist Manuscriptsc. 600–1200Transcribe Siddhaṃ Sanskrit from palm leaves, Dunhuang scrolls and Japanese sutra prints: conjuncts, vowel signs, anusvāra and visarga, checked folio by folio.
- Śāradā Manuscripts of Kashmir and the Northwestc. 900–1700Transcribe Kashmiri Śāradā manuscripts on birch bark and paper: angular akṣaras, dense conjuncts, Vedic accents and marginal glosses, checked against the folio.
- Newa and Nepalese Sanskrit Manuscriptsc. 1000–1900Transcribe Nepalese Sanskrit manuscripts in Bhujimol, Nepālākṣara and Newa: palm leaves with string holes, dated colophons and Newar-language glosses.
- Grantha Sanskrit Manuscripts of the Tamil Regionc. 1100–1900Transcribe Grantha palm-leaf manuscripts from the Tamil country: incised rounded letters, stacked conjuncts, no word spaces and string holes through the text.
- Nandinagari Sanskrit Manuscriptsc. 1000–1900Transcribe Nandinagari: the Deccan cousin of Devanagari, on palm leaf, paper and Vijayanagara copper plates, with its own letterforms and conjuncts.
Polish
- Medieval Latin Charters with Polish Namesc. 1100–1400Transcribe charters from Piast Poland: Caroline and Gothic documentary hands, suspension marks, Tironian et and Polish place names spelled a dozen ways.
- Old Polish Gothic and Bastarda Manuscriptsc. 1350–1550Read Old Polish in Gothic textualis and bastarda: digraph spelling, hooked nasal vowels, Latin glosses and psalters where three languages share one column.
- Polish Chancery and Humanistic Handsc. 1500–1700Transcribe Polish and Latin from Renaissance chancery and italic hands: elongated display lines, abbreviated titles, faint diacritics and registration notes.
- Polish-Language Kurrent in Prussian and Austrian Recordsc. 1650–1918Transcribe Polish names and words written in German Kurrent: partition-era civil registers, parish books, land plans and letters with faint diacritics.
- Polish and Russian Civil Records in the Russian Partitionc. 1800–1918Transcribe civil registers of the Russian partition: Napoleonic-format acts in Polish, the same books in Russian after 1868, and Polish names in Cyrillic.
Czech
- Medieval Bohemian Latin Caroline and Gothic Recordsc. 1000–1300Transcribe Bohemian charters, chronicles and codices of c. 1000–1300: Caroline and early Gothic hands, dense abbreviation and Latinised Czech names.
- Old Czech Gothic and Bastarda Manuscriptsc. 1300–1500Transcribe Old Czech in Gothic Textualis, Bastarda and cursive: digraph spelling, r rotunda, minim thickets and Latin abbreviations on the same page.
- Hussite and Utraquist Czech-Latin Manuscriptsc. 1400–1550Transcribe Hussite hymnals, polemics and Utraquist liturgy: Czech and Latin in one hand, red rubrics, chant notation and layers of annotation.
- Habsburg Bohemian Chancery Records in Czech, German, and Latinc. 1526–1800Transcribe Bohemian charters, patents and prints of 1526–1800: Czech chancery hands, German Fraktur, Latin formulas and script changes by language.
- Central European Kurrent Parish and Civil Recordsc. 1700–1918Transcribe Habsburg parish registers, cadastral sheets and police forms: German Kurrent entries, Latin and Czech headings and ruled columns.
Swedish
- Medieval Scandinavian Latin and Vernacular Chartersc. 1100–1500Transcribe Danish, Swedish and Norwegian charters in Gothic documentary hands: Latin suspensions, þ and ð, witness lists and dating clauses.
- Danish Royal and Municipal Gothic Chancery Handsc. 1500–1700Transcribe Danish royal, town and court records in gotisk skrift: looped chancery cursive, Latin and German insertions, money signs and dates.
- Swedish Neo-Gothic and Fraktur Administrative Handsc. 1500–1750Transcribe early modern Swedish: neo-Gothic chancery cursive, Fraktur print, variable å ä ö, terminal flourishes and Latin words in roman type.
- Danish-Norwegian Parish, Court, and Administrative Gothicc. 1700–1875Transcribe kirkebøker, probate and court protocols and royal ordinances in Danish-Norwegian Gothic cursive, with farm names, ditto marks and old money.
- Swedish and Norwegian Transitional Gothic-Latin Handsc. 1750–1900Transcribe Swedish and Norwegian records where Gothic cursive and Latin round hand share a page: registers, censuses, printed forms and Fraktur type.
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Sinhala
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Burmese
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Tibetan
Georgian
Armenian
Ukrainian
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Finnish
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Estonian
Latvian
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Turkish
Azerbaijani
Kazakh
Uzbek
Swahili
Amharic
Somali
How it works
- Step 1
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- Step 2
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Pick the language the transcription should come back in.
- Step 3
Test the prompt
One random page is transcribed so you can judge the result before committing.
- Step 4
Run and edit
Approve the prompt, let every page transcribe, then correct anything by hand.
Built for documents OCR gets wrong
Archives and manuscripts
Letters, parish registers, ledgers and diaries that OCR cannot read.
Research fieldwork
Handwritten notebooks, observation sheets and interview notes.
Reports and scans
Scanned PDFs where the text layer is missing or unreliable.
Records and admin
Minutes, receipts, forms and prescriptions that arrive as photographs.
Frequently asked questions
- What file types can I convert to text?
- PNG, JPG, JPEG, WEBP, HEIC and HEIF images, plus multi-page PDFs. A PDF is split into pages automatically and every page is transcribed on its own, so a 200-page scan comes back as 200 separate transcriptions you can read and edit individually.
- Does it work on handwriting?
- Yes. Handwritten letters, field notebooks, ledgers, minutes and archival manuscripts are the main use case. Because you write the transcription prompt yourself, you can tell the model how to treat abbreviations, unclear words and original spelling instead of accepting a generic OCR result.
- How is this different from ordinary OCR?
- Traditional OCR matches character shapes and fails on handwriting, faded ink and unusual layouts. Evidano reads the page with a vision language model, so it can follow columns, tables and marginalia, and it can mark uncertain readings rather than silently guessing.
- Can I test the prompt before running a whole document?
- Yes. Before a project starts, one page is sampled at random and transcribed with your prompt so you can see the result. Edit the prompt and try again as often as you like; only when you are happy does the prompt run across every page.
- Can I get the text in another language?
- Choose an output language from about a hundred options and the transcription is returned in that language. A German archival letter can come back in English, or an English report in Hindi, without a separate translation step.
- Can I correct a transcription afterwards?
- Every page can be edited in place. Open the file, compare the image with the text side by side, fix anything the model misread and save. Your correction replaces the stored transcription.
- Is my document kept private?
- Files are processed for your account only, are never used to train models, and can be deleted at any time — individually or a whole project at once.
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