Japanese Handwriting OCR — Scan & Recognise Japanese Script Free
Optical character recognition for handwritten **Japanese**. Japanese mixes Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji in one line, with look-alike pairs like ソ/ン and シ/ツ. Our OCR engine handles it and gives you clean, editable text from any image or PDF.
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 japanese text will appear here. Upload an image on the left to get started.
What our Japanese handwriting OCR does
Optical character recognition made for the way Japanese is actually written across Japan.
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 Japanese 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 Japanese as you need.
Keeps layout and line breaks
The recognition output mirrors your page: paragraphs and line breaks in the Japanese original are preserved.
Handles Japan writing styles
Handwriting varies a lot across Japan. The OCR model is built to cope with that range in Japanese.
From a Japanese scan to editable text
From a photo of Japanese writing to recognised, editable text in under a minute.
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Upload the image or PDF to scan
Drag in a photo, scan or PDF of the handwritten Japanese. JPG, PNG, HEIC and PDF all work.
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Run the OCR recognition
The engine reads every Japanese character and recognises it as digital Japanese text.
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Review, edit and export
Check the recognised text, fix anything if needed, then copy it or export to Word, PDF, TXT or Markdown.
Japanese OCR: common questions
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 Japanese writing may need a quick edit afterwards.
Japanese mixes Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji in one line, with look-alike pairs like ソ/ン and シ/ツ. 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.