Read scans to text — even the messy ones.
Handwriting, faded receipts, sideways scans and mixed-language pages — read back as clean, structured text, with tables preserved. Free up to 5 a day.
Minutes — 14 March
Present: J. Owens, R. Patel
Apologies: none
Budget carried 1,240 …
Next review: April
Minutes — 14 March
Present: J. Owens, R. Patel
Apologies: none
Budget carried — £1,240
Next review: April
Built for the pages that trip up older OCR.
Handwriting
Notes, letters and field journals read far more reliably than the legacy engines built for print.
Faded or smudged
Low-contrast and degraded scans are read in context, the way a person fills in a word they can half-see.
Tables preserved
Grids come back as a markdown table or CSV, not a jumble of loose, mis-positioned numbers.
Mixed scripts
Two languages on one page are usually read in a single pass on the Pro reader.
Receipts & whiteboards
Dedicated modes pull out totals, dates and board notes cleanly.
You stay in control
The read text sits beside your original, so you can fix anything before you use it.
From scan to text in four steps.
Capture
Photograph or scan the document — a phone shot is fine.
Review
Check the read text beside the original and tidy anything that needs it.
Export
Copy, or download as text, markdown or CSV.
Honest about accuracy
Print scans read near-perfectly; messy cursive is harder. You always see the read text beside your original, so you can fix anything before you use it.
FineReader is excellent for clean printed text. Our reader is stronger on handwriting, mixed languages and degraded scans. For pure print the gap is narrow — both read it well.
Yes. Phone shots, whiteboard photos and receipt snapshots all read fine. Good light and a flat page help.
Many languages are supported, and right-to-left scripts are usually preserved. The free in-browser reader is tuned for English; other scripts read best on the Pro reader.
Free reads one at a time. Pro lets you drop a folder and get a zip of transcripts back.