Handwriting translator: translate a handwritten page into English

How to translate handwriting with LoreAI

1. Photograph the page. Lay it flat, shoot straight down and keep all four corners in the frame. For several pages, put them into one PDF with your phone's scan function.
2. Upload it and choose the language. Upload the PDF, JPG or PNG and pick English or another target language. The source language is detected by itself.
3. Choose OCR + Translate. LoreAI reads the handwriting and any printed text on the page, then translates it.
4. Download the Word file. The translation comes back as an editable Word file, with headings, lists and tables in the original order.

What handwriting can it translate?

LoreAI reads handwriting in the Latin alphabet, the script of Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Polish and most European languages. Print letters, block capitals and joined up cursive all come back as typed text in your chosen language.

Letters and postcards

From family, a host family or a pen friend, in reading order

Class and lecture notes

From an exchange semester, lists kept as lists

Recipes

Handwritten by a relative, ingredients and steps kept apart

Filled in forms

Printed labels and handwritten answers translated together

Notes in the margin

Translated with the printed text around them

Names, dates and numbers

Stay as written. Names in another script are written in Latin letters

Free ways to translate handwriting

A camera app is right for a line on a postcard. For a letter of three pages you want to keep, print or send on, a Word file gives you the whole text in order, in one file.

Handwriting to text first, translation second

If you only need the handwriting typed out in its own language, use the free handwriting to text converter, with no account. For old family letters and diaries in joined up script, read cursive to text.

For printed documents in another language, such as a certificate with a handwritten date, read how to translate an image to English. LoreAI is not a certified translation service. When an authority needs a certified translation, a translator reviews the Word draft and signs the certificate.

How to photograph handwriting for translation

• Use daylight or an even lamp, with no shadow across the page.
• Fill the frame with the page, so small letters stay sharp.
• Photograph pencil in good light, because pencil is fainter than ink.
• Shoot both sides of a letter, and keep the pages in order.
• Turn the photo upright before you upload it.

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