Technology powering spotless OCR
Photographed text or handwritten notes: UglyWriting gives you a clean document ready for review.
Accuracy benchmarks by use case
- 99.9 % Screenshot
- 99.2 % Old book photograph
- 99.7 % Scanned handwritten notes
- 99.5 % Handwritten notes photo
Designed for every situation
These examples show how effective UglyWriting is. Results vary according to image quality and handwriting legibility.
Screenshot
Keeps logos, illustration, and navigation; perfectly recognises text and removes captions so the layout stays intact.
1 error out of 1,515 characters.
Original image
Extracted text
Old book photograph
Preserves layout and footnotes despite tiny writing, aged paper, a near-century-old print, and a smartphone photo.
12 errors out of 1,626 characters.
Original image
Extracted text
School notes (scanned)
Deciphers most of the text despite notebook lines, handles hyphenation, ignores irrelevant elements, and keeps the original wording.
2 errors out of 593 characters.
Original image
Extracted text
School notes (smartphone photo)
Even with a quick snapshot, the text is reproduced very faithfully.
3 errors out of 593 characters.
Original image
Extracted text
A better output than general-purpose OCR APIs
Our benchmarks show how UglyWriting stands out against generic solutions.
Figures based on our 2025 internal multilingual test suites across a panel of competitors.
| Evaluated metric | UglyWriting | Competitors |
|---|---|---|
| Document fidelity | ★★★★★ (near perfect) | ★★★☆ (good) |
| Handwriting extraction | Advanced model, dedicated training | Experimental feature |
| Tables & illustrations | Native tables + embedded images | Image-to-text conversion only |
Illustrations preserved
Diagrams, photos, and annotations keep their position so the document stays meaningful.
Rebuilt tables
Cells, headers, and merges are recreated in semantic HTML or DOCX table objects.
Easy-to-edit exports
Download DOCX or responsive HTML for quick review and edits.
Experience the difference on your documents
Scan or photograph a document: our pipeline delivers reliable text ready for refinement.