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Historical Handwriting Transcription for Archives

Transcribe old handwritten documents, letters, diaries and parish or family records into searchable text, keeping the original language and spelling. For archives, genealogy and historical research. Expect to proofread very old scripts; unreadable words are marked [illegible].

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Handwriting to Text OCR: Notes, Letters, Forms & PDFs
Handwriting to Text OCR: Notes, Letters, Forms & PDFsbossless/handwriting-to-text
File
Page
Pages
Language
+4 fields
Text
Number
Boolean
List
Object

Input

Photo, scan or PDF links(required):https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/T5HtoeQYut1ufwkKC/records/sample-handwritten-note.jpg
Max pages per file:20

Output fields

File
Page
Pages
Language
Handwritten
Words
Illegible
Processed at

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