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