Extract handwritten text from your documents
What is handwriting detection?
Koncile’s OCR can recognize handwritten characters, annotations, handwritten notes, additions on a document, and certain types of signatures.
These elements are then transcribed into a usable format so they can be processed in your tools, workflows, or internal applications.
How it works
Handwriting detection and extraction rely on several steps:
- Document analysis: Koncile automatically identifies handwritten zones in scanned or photographed pages.
- Advanced OCR recognition: The AI reconstructs characters even when they are irregular, tilted, or written quickly.
- Context understanding: Handwritten information is replaced within its structure (form field, box, comment area).
- Data extraction: Handwritten text is converted into usable data that can be exported or integrated into your systems.
Use cases
Here are real scenarios from Koncile users:
• Prescription extraction: patient name, prescribed medicines, handwritten doctor annotations.
• Paper forms: recovery of handwritten fields (name, date, legal notes, signatures).
• Annotated delivery notes: manually corrected quantities, transporter remarks, handwritten validations.
• HR or administrative documents: handwritten notes on contracts, onboarding forms, tracking sheets.
• Field reports & construction documents: pen-written comments on plans, reports or manual readings.
• Banking or accounting documents: annotations on statements, check stubs, deposit slips.
Reliability and scaling
Handwriting recognition remains more complex than printed text, but Koncile’s AI models achieve a high level of accuracy on most common handwriting styles.
The success rate exceeds 99%.
The tool is designed for scale: you can process hundreds or thousands of handwritten documents per month.
You can also consult the confidence scores of each extracted data point to control reliability.
Type: Automation
User: Business
Complexity: Medium
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All your questions about handwriting OCR
Koncile is a document extraction and automation tool. It transforms invoices, quotes, reports, purchase orders, identity documents, prescriptions, contracts, and more into structured data that can be exported or injected into your systems.
Koncile detects handwritten areas including corrections and strike-throughs when they are legible.Signatures can be identified as handwritten zones, but they are not transcribed for security and reliability reasons.
Yes. Koncile can detect checked, unchecked, or partially filled boxes in scanned forms and documents, and return this information as an exploitable field.
Koncile offers two features for complex cases:
• Classification alerts: when a document cannot be classified due to unclear content. It appears in the “classification alerts” section and can be manually assigned.
• Database matching: matches extracted values with your database. For example, medicines from handwritten prescriptions are matched with a full pharmacy database to ensure accuracy.
Yes. Koncile is GDPR-compliant and SOC 2 certified, the strictest standard for data management, user protection, and system reliability.
Yes. Koncile delivers some of the highest handwriting OCR results on the market.
You can also check our ranking of the best handwriting OCR solutions for detailed comparisons.
Handwriting OCR can process all languages.
Yes. Extracted data can be exported to Excel, sent via API, or automatically pushed into your tools via connectors (Make, Zapier, n8n).
You can enrich supplier profiles, client files, product databases or any workflow without manual input.
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