Chinese Handwriting to Text

Better than drawing characters one by one

When you meet an unknown character, the usual fix is a handwriting keyboard: draw it stroke by stroke and pick from a list. That's fine for one character but painful for a whole page, and if you don't know the stroke order the keyboard often can't find it. Here you photograph the full page and get every character at once.

Simplified and Traditional, kept as written

The tool doesn't convert between scripts. A note written in Traditional characters (as used in Taiwan and Hong Kong) stays Traditional, and Simplified stays Simplified. That keeps names and quotations accurate. Punctuation comes out full-width (，。、「」) the way Chinese text should be typed.

Running script and messy handwriting

Everyday handwriting is rarely neat 楷书. Most people write a semi-cursive 行书 where strokes join and components get abbreviated. The model reads characters in the context of the words around them, which is how it can tell 己, 已 and 巳 apart, or 未 from 末, when the strokes alone are ambiguous.

Who uses it

• Learners decoding teachers' comments and handwritten worksheets
• Family letters and notes from relatives
• Handwritten recipes, prescriptions and receipts (check medical text with a professional)
• Old notebooks and diaries for research or translation

Frequently asked questions