Old handwriting, decoded into readable text

See real documents — family letters, correspondence, and historical records — turned into clear, readable text. Hard cases included: faded ink, old scripts, even German Kurrent.

What you'll find on this page

• Side-by-side views: a photo of the original handwritten page next to its transcription.
• Everyday family documents — letters, postcards, recipe cards, and diary pages in American cursive.
• Hard cases: faded pencil, ornate 19th-century hands, and German Kurrent with English translation.
• Notes on what makes each page difficult and how the transcription handles it.

Guides for specific scripts

Working with a particular kind of document? These guides cover the background and show how to get it transcribed:

• Cursive to text — turn any cursive page into typed text
• Old handwriting — 19th- and early 20th-century hands
• Kurrent script — the old German hand used until ~1941
• Sütterlin — German school script of the early 1900s
• Fraktur — blackletter print in old German books and certificates
• German church records — baptism, marriage, and burial entries

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