German OCR Online — Recognise Handwritten Latin Instantly
This free **German handwriting OCR** reads Latin script straight from a photo or scan. German uses the umlauts ä, ö, ü and the ß, and older pages may be in Kurrent or Sütterlin script. Run recognition, review the result, and export editable German 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 german text will appear here. Upload an image on the left to get started.
Built for scanning real German handwriting
Purpose-built Latin recognition, tuned on real German handwriting from Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Private, secure recognition
Each German 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 German as you need.
Keeps layout and line breaks
The recognition output mirrors your page: paragraphs and line breaks in the German original are preserved.
Handles Germany writing styles
Handwriting varies a lot across Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The OCR model is built to cope with that range in German.
Accurate Latin script recognition
German uses the umlauts ä, ö, ü and the ß, and older pages may be in Kurrent or Sütterlin script. Our OCR is tuned for Latin specifically, so german umlaut and Eszett recognition is handled properly instead of being guessed.
Reads real German handwriting
This engine is trained on everyday German penmanship from Germany, Austria and Switzerland, not just neat print — so casual and rushed writing is still recognised.
Scan to recognised text in three steps
No setup and no account — upload your German page, run OCR, and go.
- 1
Upload the image or PDF to scan
Drag in a photo, scan or PDF of the handwritten German. JPG, PNG, HEIC and PDF all work.
- 2
Run the OCR recognition
The engine reads every Latin character and recognises it as digital German 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.
German handwriting OCR — questions people ask
It is highly accurate on clear handwriting. A sharp, well-lit photo gives the best recognition; very faded or hurried German writing may need a quick edit afterwards.
German uses the umlauts ä, ö, ü and the ß, and older pages may be in Kurrent or Sütterlin script. Our engine is built specifically to deal with that.
Both. You can scan images (JPG, PNG, HEIC) and multi-page PDF documents.
Yes — export to Word (.docx), PDF, plain text or Markdown, or simply copy it to your clipboard.
Yes. Images are processed for recognition and then deleted immediately — nothing is retained.
Yes. The German OCR runs in any modern mobile or desktop browser, so you can photograph a page and recognise it on the spot.