Teach Scrawl your handwriting once, then turn class notes, answer keys and problem sets into pages that look handwritten by you. It handles exponents, fractions, square roots, Greek letters and chemical formulas.
Start writing →Read the 4-step guide · You can start right away with the sample handwriting. To use your own, print the template, write each character in its box, then upload a photo of it. You can also draw characters on screen. Any characters you skip use the sample style.
One page with a box for every letter, number and math and chemistry symbol. Write on the faint baseline in each box with a dark pen.
Lay the page flat in good light so all four black corner squares show. Scrawl straightens the page and cuts out every character.
Tap any character below and write it with your mouse, trackpad or finger. Good for fixing a few letters.
Upload a PDF, or type and paste your text. Math goes between dollar signs, and chemistry uses \ce{…}. Typed PDFs work best. A scanned PDF is just a picture, so there’s no text to pull out.
x^2 → x² · v_0 → v₀ · e^{i\pi} · \frac{a}{b} · \sqrt{2gh}\alpha \beta \theta \pi \Delta \omega \mu \sigma \lambda\int \sum \infty \partial \nabla \pm \times \cdot \leq \geq \neq \approx \to
\ce{H2SO4} → H₂SO₄ · \ce{2H2 + O2 -> 2H2O} · \ce{N2 + 3H2 <=> 2NH3} · \ce{Fe^{3+}}
|: | | HA | H^+ | A^- | then | I | 0.10 | 0 | 0 |. Tables in PDFs are detected automatically.
--- on its own line for a page break.
About ten minutes, once. After that, every PDF you convert comes out in your handwriting.
Click Download template in step 1 and print it on letter paper at 100% / actual size, not “fit to page.”
Use black or dark blue ink. Write each character once, sitting on the blue line, at your normal size. Tails of g, p and y go below the line. Stay inside the box.
Lay the page flat in daylight and hold your phone straight above it. All four black corner squares must be in the shot, with no shadows on the page.
Drop the photo into step 1. Your letters show up in the grid. Tap any character that came out wrong to redraw it on screen.
The template has four corner markers. Scrawl finds them in your photo, straightens the page and cuts each character out of its box, ignoring the light blue guide lines.
Text is pulled out of the PDF line by line. Exponents, subscripts, fractions, roots and chemical formulas are laid out the way you would write them.
Every letter gets a slightly different size, tilt and spacing, and lines drift a little, so the page never looks stamped.
Write it sitting on the blue line, as big as you’d naturally write it.