Handwriting to Text API

Category: ai

Draw or write on a canvas and convert handwriting to digital text. Uses browser canvas and OCR.

Endpoint

N/A Browser API (Canvas + OCR)
No Server API

Response

Content-Type: N/A

This tool captures handwriting on an HTML5 canvas and converts it to text. No server-side API is available.

// Browser-only: uses Canvas API

cURL Example

# No cURL equivalent — this tool uses a browser canvas

Code Samples

// Handwriting capture using Canvas
const canvas = document.getElementById('drawCanvas');
const ctx = canvas.getContext('2d');

canvas.addEventListener('mousemove', (e) => {
    if (drawing) {
        ctx.lineTo(e.offsetX, e.offsetY);
        ctx.stroke();
    }
});
# For server-side handwriting recognition:
# Use Google Cloud Vision API or AWS Textract
import boto3

client = boto3.client('textract')
response = client.detect_document_text(Document={'Bytes': image_bytes})
// For server-side handwriting recognition:
// Use AWS Textract or Google Cloud Vision API