GoMalayalam · Optical Character Recognition
Malayalam handwriting,
as you wrote it.
Upload a photograph of your notebook, a letter, a lesson plan, a recipe on the back of a shopping list. Every ചില്ല്, every കൂട്ടക്ഷരം, every loop of the pen, read with care and handed back to you as editable text.
Specimen 01 · Handwritten, blue ink, ruled paper
↓ What GoMalayalam reads
Yesterday’s notebook, today’s document.
The same letters you wrote. Faithfully extracted. Ready to be edited, rearranged, rewritten, or simply kept.
Extracted text
എല്ലാ പ്രിയപ്പെട്ടവരുടെ
ചെറിയ കൂട്ടത്തിലേക്ക്
വളരെ ചുരുങ്ങിയ കാലം കൊണ്ട്
കടന്നുവന്ന മലയാളം വാക്കുകൾ…
സ്നേഹാദരവുകളോടെ.
Built for Malayalam
Three things we chose to get right.
01
Reads the script. Not a lookalike.
ചിലവും, കൂട്ടക്ഷരവും, സംവൃത ഉകാരവും
Trained on the shapes that matter in Malayalam: chillu letters, vowel signs that sit on top, below, and around their consonants, and the compound conjuncts that flatten machines built for simpler scripts.
02
Forgives real-world pages.
പുസ്തകത്തിൻ്റെ വരികൾ, നിഴൽ, കറ
Lined paper, photocopies, photos taken in the kitchen with one hand. GoMalayalam was built against the kind of pictures you actually take. Not studio scans.
03
Hands the text to your writer.
വ്യാകരണം, എഴുത്ത്, എക്സ്പോർട്ട്
The moment extraction ends, the same paragraph is waiting in the editor. Fix a letter. Check the grammar. Export a PDF. The tools that come next were built by the same people.
Process
From picture to page. In three quiet steps.
01
Upload.
A photo or scan. JPG, PNG, WebP, HEIC, BMP. Up to 10MB.
02
Review.
The extraction is presented side-by-side. Fix anything that needs fixing.
03
Continue.
Save as a draft. Run grammar checks. Rewrite. Export. The workspace is already waiting.
Questions
Things people ask before they try.
If you have a question that isn’t here, the answer is usually “yes, send us the page and we’ll tell you.”
It takes a photograph or scan of Malayalam, handwritten or printed, and returns an editable draft you can open in the GoMalayalam editor. You review, correct anything the reading missed, then continue writing or run grammar checks in the same workspace.
The model is trained on the shapes that make Malayalam Malayalam: chillu letters, conjunct clusters, vowel signs that sit above and below the base letter. Clear handwriting reads near-perfectly. Cursive and rushed script still work, just with more correction afterwards. A well-lit photo goes further than a perfect page.
JPG, PNG, WebP, HEIC, HEIF, and BMP, up to 10MB. HEIC/HEIF from iPhone cameras are handled natively. No converting required.
Uploads are processed inside your own authenticated workspace. They are not shared, and retention of the source image is limited to what the extraction needs. Only you can see them.
OCR is part of GoMalayalam Pro. Pro accounts currently include ten OCR uploads per month, enough for regular notebook digitisation without being a headline feature.
For clear handwriting or printed Malayalam, accuracy is high. Most users edit one or two letters per paragraph, not words. Messier pages take more review. The review pane is designed exactly for this: you see the image and the text side-by-side, so corrections are quick.
Your turn
Try it with your own note.
The first thing you upload doesn’t have to be important. A page from a journal. A line your grandmother wrote. That’s the moment GoMalayalam was built for.