French OCR Online — Recognise Handwritten Latin Instantly
This free **French handwriting OCR** reads Latin script straight from a photo or scan. French relies on accents like é, è, ê, ç, à and the ligature œ, and looped French cursive can blur them together. Run recognition, review the result, and export editable French text — no account, no cost.
Drag and drop or
PNG, JPEG, JPG, WEBP, HEIC, HEIF, PDF up to 20 MB
or drag and drop, or paste with Ctrl + V
Extracted text
Your extracted french text will appear here. Upload an image on the left to get started.
Built for scanning real French handwriting
Purpose-built Latin recognition, tuned on real French handwriting from France, Canada, Belgium and Francophone Africa.
Scan photos, images and PDFs
Upload a phone photo, a scanner image or a multi-page PDF. The OCR pulls French text out of notes, letters, homework and archival documents.
Editable OCR output
Recognised text lands in an editable panel, so you can correct anything the engine misread before you copy or download it.
Export in multiple formats
Save recognised text as TXT, Markdown, Word (.docx) or PDF, or copy it straight to your clipboard.
Private, secure recognition
Each French image is processed securely and deleted right after OCR runs. Nothing is stored on our servers.
Free with no limits
No sign-up, no watermark and no daily cap — run OCR on as much handwritten French as you need.
Keeps layout and line breaks
The recognition output mirrors your page: paragraphs and line breaks in the French original are preserved.
Scan to recognised text in three steps
No setup and no account — upload your French page, run OCR, and go.
- 1
Upload the image or PDF to scan
Drag in a photo, scan or PDF of the handwritten French. JPG, PNG, HEIC and PDF all work.
- 2
Run the OCR recognition
The engine reads every Latin character and recognises it as digital French text.
- 3
Review, edit and export
Check the recognised text, fix anything if needed, then copy it or export to Word, PDF, TXT or Markdown.
French handwriting OCR — questions people ask
Anything handwritten — notes, letters, homework and archival documents, and more.
Yes. The engine handles mixed-language pages and recognises both scripts, or you can restrict it to only one language.
Yes — it is completely free, with no sign-up and no limit on how many images you can scan.
It is highly accurate on clear handwriting. A sharp, well-lit photo gives the best recognition; very faded or hurried French writing may need a quick edit afterwards.
French relies on accents like é, è, ê, ç, à and the ligature œ, and looped French cursive can blur them together. Our engine is built specifically to deal with that.
Both. You can scan images (JPG, PNG, HEIC) and multi-page PDF documents.