Handwritten Remover
Remove handwriting from PDFs & images — free.
Upload your document, brush over the handwriting, and download a clean copy. You choose what goes; we protect the printed text and diagrams underneath.
- No sign-up required
- Processed in your browser — never uploaded
- No watermark, no account
Drop a PDF or image here
or browse your files — PDF, JPG, PNG or WEBP, up to 25MB
Your document is processed entirely in your browser. It is never uploaded.
How it works
Three steps, no learning curve
The pipeline is built around masking and reconstruction, not regenerating your document from scratch — so printed text, equations, and diagrams stay exactly as they were.
Upload
Drop in a PDF or a photo of a document. No account, no setup.
AI removes handwriting
You brush over the handwriting; a masking and inpainting pipeline erases only the ink inside your mark and reconstructs the paper underneath, protecting printed text and diagrams.
Download
Compare the original and cleaned version side by side, then download a print-ready PDF.
See it in action
Handwriting gone. Everything else untouched.
Drag the divider. The worksheet questions, the underline rules, and the number-line diagram are pixel-identical to the original — only the handwritten answers, checkmark, circle, and note were removed.
Drag to compare the original and cleaned documentUse cases
Built for real documents
From worksheets to scanned forms, here's what people use it for.
Remove handwriting from PDFs
Clean up scanned PDF packets, worksheets, and forms page by page.
Remove handwritten answers
Reuse a worksheet or exam by erasing filled-in answers while keeping the questions.
Clean scanned documents
Strip pen and pencil marks from scans before filing, sharing, or archiving.
Remove pen marks from PDFs
Erase ink corrections, signatures, and margin notes from a PDF's pages.
Clean photographed paperwork
Take a phone photo of a written-on page and get back a clean, readable copy.
Remove handwritten annotations
Take margin notes, circles, and arrows off diagrams and printed pages.
Ready to clean up a document?
No account, no upload, no watermark — mark the handwriting and download the clean copy.
Upload a documentFAQ
Frequently asked questions
Can I remove handwriting from a PDF?
Yes. Upload a PDF and each page is analyzed separately. Pages with handwriting are cleaned; pages with no handwriting at all are left completely untouched — including their original vector text where the PDF has it — instead of being needlessly reprocessed.
Can I remove handwriting from a photo?
Yes. JPG, PNG, WEBP, and TIFF photos are supported. Phone photos are automatically rotated using their embedded orientation data. Note that we do not yet correct tilt or perspective distortion in a photo — a heavily skewed photo is processed as-is.
Will printed text be removed?
The system is built specifically to avoid this. It only removes pixels inside regions the AI identifies as handwriting, using a tight, locally-adaptive mask rather than blanking a whole area — so printed text, equations, diagrams, and tables outside those regions are left byte-for-byte identical to your original file.
Can it remove handwritten answers?
Yes — handwritten answers, calculations, checkmarks, circles, and grading marks are exactly what the detection model looks for. If handwriting is written directly on top of printed text, the area it covers is reconstructed from the surrounding background, since the covered printed content is not otherwise recoverable from a single image.
Does it work with scanned documents?
Yes, scanned documents are a primary use case, including multi-page scanned PDFs and single scanned images.
Do I need to create an account?
No. There is no sign-up, login, or account of any kind. Upload a file and download your result.