* * * HANDWRITING OCR API * * *
Handwriting OCR API.
Handwriting is where classic OCR goes to die. Vision-language models actually read it — cursive, print, margins-of-a-form scrawl — and PennyOCR serves them at 75 cents per thousand pages.
START FREE — 100 PAGES
$0.75 / 1,000 PAGES
1,333 PAGES PER DOLLAR · NO CREDIT CARD
01 / TRY IT
ONE ENDPOINT.
POST a file, get JSON back — the extracted text, per page and joined. PDF, PNG, JPEG, WebP or TIFF.
curl https://api.pennyocr.com/v1/ocr \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $PENNYOCR_API_KEY" \
-F "file=@note.jpg"
# $0.75 per 1,000 pages, first 100 free02 / USE CASES
WHAT PEOPLE DECIPHER.
HANDWRITTEN FORMS
Intake forms, applications and surveys filled out by hand become structured text.
FIELD NOTES
Inspections, deliveries, medical charts — notes written standing up, read by machine.
ARCHIVES & LETTERS
Digitize correspondence and records that predate the keyboard.
MIXED PAGES
Printed forms with handwritten answers read as one page, in reading order.
03 / PRICE CHECK
HALF THE PRICE OF THE BIG CLOUDS.
Per 1,000 pages, public list prices, first tier.
PENNYOCR$0.75
AWS TEXTRACT$1.50
GOOGLE CLOUD VISION$1.50
AZURE DOC INTELLIGENCE$1.50
YOU KEEP50%
HOW GOOD IS IT AT CURSIVE?
Genuinely usable — vision-language models read cursive and messy print that classic OCR returns as noise. Legibility still matters: if a human struggles, the model will too.
DOES MIXED PRINT AND HANDWRITING WORK?
Yes, it's read together in reading order — ideal for printed forms with handwritten fields.
WHAT DOES IT COST?
Same as everything here: $0.75 per 1,000 pages, first 100 free every month.
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