[Athen] Converting Hand-Written Documents to an Accessible Format

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Also check out the ATHEN thread "Handwriting to OCR text" (4/8/25-4/15/25) which had a lot of good suggestions.

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On Nov 3, 2025, at 1:59 PM, JORDISON_SHAWN via athen-list <athen-list at u.washington.edu> wrote:

Holy cow I need an updated video.

MathPix I can handle a large scale PDF to Microsoft word editing. This is my go to tool these days for converting all of my math.

https://youtu.be/mro6NaTvxCM?si=PIGCJeA13j8XaD0M

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My colleagues are now starting to test Equatio, which offers a handwriting interpretation for Math.  Has anyone had success with this?
Thanks,

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Hello,

A colleague and I have been searching and testing various technology tools that would convert a hand-written document to an accessible file format. So far, we have found several tools that will use OCR in the conversion process, but it seems it still recognizes the handwriting as an image. This is also happening in my Adobe Acrobat Pro account; it labels them as "figures."

Does anyone have any recommendations for a tool that can do this correctly? We are coming up short.

We would also appreciate some insight into how other institutions are handling this. Tips, best practices, etc. are welcome.

Thank you in advance,

Megan Hall
Senior Instructional Designer
Saint Francis University | Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning
814.472.3933 | Library Room 110A
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