Turn handwriting or a scan into typed text
Upload a photo or scan of handwriting, a drawing, a form or a printed page and get typed, editable text back -- or a table you can open in Excel -- from an AI text-recognition tool or API, rather than retyping it by hand. 10 products across 8 companies in the Ludbee catalogue carry this task — across 3 of the 4 layers of the stack: 3 Application, 2 Infrastructure, 3 Foundation Models.
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Where these run
- SaaS
- 10 of 10 products that record it
- Private cloud
- 1 of 10 products that record it
- Self-hosted
- 1 of 10 products that record it
One product can run more than one way — the counts above are of records, not of products.
What this page does not claim
This list carries no score and no recommendation, and one order only: inside each layer, a company whose product for this task is marked AI feature — sold for another job, with AI as one function its own page names — comes after the rest, A–Z within each. The standing rule that applies to the whole directory applies here too: no payment changes a figure, a ranking or the order of any list, this one included. Nor can it yet say what governs any of these products once deployed — what data they can reach, what they are certified against, whether a vendor trains on what you send it. That field is defined in the ontology and is populated on none of the 4,528 products in the catalogue yet, so a page that leaned on it would be promising an answer the data cannot back. It will say so here the day that changes.
The companies
Application (3)
- Amazon — Amazon Textract
- Microsoft — Azure Document Intelligence, Azure Vision in Foundry Tools
- OpenDrawing — OpenDrawing document digitization