Text recognition
Upload cursive notes, letters, registers, or field scans and get editable text with review signals.
Manuscript OCR for careful workflows
Turn handwritten manuscripts into searchable text
ManuLens helps you extract readable text from historical notes, letters, forms, and research scans, then review uncertain words before export.
Image and PDF uploads
Review low-confidence words
Export text and JSON
Built for archives and research
OCR demo
Upload a manuscript image
Product
Built for documents that need human judgment
The MVP keeps the workflow narrow: upload, recognize, review, and export. Payments are not open yet; access is managed by a free waitlist.
Layout awareness
Keep pages, lines, paragraphs, marginal notes, and tables visible where the OCR provider can detect them.
Review before export
Compare extracted text with the scan, correct uncertain words, and export a clean result.
Structured output
Return text, confidence, page metadata, and review status for downstream tools.
Workflow
From scan to structured result
ManuLens is set up around jobs, not one-off prompts. That keeps the payment, moderation, OCR, review, and export lifecycle ready for production providers.
job_result.jsonexample
{
"job_id": "job_8f32ad19",
"pages": 1,
"status": "needs_review",
"blocks": [
{
"type": "paragraph",
"text": "Dear friend...",
"confidence": 0.87,
"review_required": true
}
]
}Use cases
For teams working with handwritten material
Archives
Process letters, registers, and catalog material faster.
Researchers
Turn primary sources and field notes into searchable text.
Genealogy
Read family records, old letters, and historical forms.
Developers
Use structured OCR output in datasets and internal tools.
Help shape the manuscript OCR workflow
Payments are not open yet. The waitlist is free, and we will invite early users as capacity grows.