Handwriting OCR API
Read handwritten notes, forms and letters, including cursive, and get editable text back.
Result
Your Markdown or JSON shows up here.
What makes handwritten notes hard to read
- Cursive and joined letters
- Mixed print and handwriting on one form
- Crossed-out words and margin notes
What you can pull out
handwriting fields
{
"text": "Meeting moved to Thursday 3pm",
"confidence": "0.91",
"bbox": "[120, 88, 940, 132]"
}Best models for handwritten notes
1Gemini FlashGeneral vision model with strong handwriting and layout understanding at a low price.
google/gemini-flash3 credits / page2Mathpix ConvertSpecialist for math, science papers and handwritten formulas. Outputs LaTeX.mathpix/convert7 credits / page3GPTGeneral vision model. Good at messy scans and following extraction instructions.openai/gpt11 credits / pageCall it from your code
curl https://api.ocrrouter.ai/v1/ocr \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $OCRROUTER_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "google/gemini-flash",
"file_url": "https://example.com/invoice.pdf",
"format": "json"
}'