Keep sharing your notes. We'll make them accessible.
The ADA rule requires accessible course materials. You shouldn't have to choose between sharing your work and meeting that standard. Upload a photo of your notes and get back a screen-reader-ready document — math, diagrams, and all.
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What makes handwritten notes inaccessible
When you upload a photo of your notes to a course LMS, students using screen readers receive a blank rectangle. The screen reader has no text to read, no structure to navigate, no equations to hear. The content simply doesn't exist for them.
Generic OCR can extract some text from printed documents, but it fails on handwritten materials — and completely breaks down on mathematical notation. An OCR tool that misreads a lowercase "l" as a "1" in a proof can make the entire derivation wrong.
An accessible document isn't just text that can be read aloud. It requires tagged structure (headings, paragraphs, reading order), alt text for images, and machine-readable math. Creating that manually for every lecture takes hours. It shouldn't have to.
Math and LaTeX — the hard part, handled
Mathematical notation is the core differentiator for STEM instructors. Generic tools fail here. AccessibleNotes is purpose-built for it.
Handwritten equations — integrals, summations, Greek letters, subscripts, stacked fractions, set notation — are recognized and rendered as properly typeset LaTeX. You review the result in the editor and make any needed corrections before exporting.
Integrals & derivatives
Summations & sequences
Greek letters & notation
Set and logic notation
Subscripts & superscripts
Limits & infinity
Your notes don't capture everything you said
When you lecture, you're narrating as you write — naming the technique before you apply it, explaining why you chose an approach, defining a variable before it appears in the equation. Your students hear all of that. But the notes on the board only capture the work itself.
Study Buddy adds back what was said but not written down. It reads your notes and fills in the context that was present during the lecture: technique names, intermediate steps you worked through but didn't write out, and the setup and transitions you explained aloud.
The result is a document that stands on its own as a study resource — not just a transcription of the board, but a reconstruction of the lecture experience.
Names what's happening
Labels techniques and theorems as they're applied — Chain Rule, L'Hopital's, integration by parts — even if you didn't write the name on the board.
Fills in skipped steps
When your notes jump from step A to step C, Study Buddy inserts the intermediate work — the algebra or logic you did on the board but students didn't have time to copy.
Adds setup and transitions
Frames problems with context — what we're solving and why — and adds the narrative flow you provided verbally between sections.
Study Buddy is on by default. All additions are clearly marked and easy to edit or remove. You always have final editorial control.
How it works
Minutes, not days.
Upload
Take a photo of your handwritten notes, whiteboard, or scan a document. Upload it directly from your phone or computer.
Review
The transcription comes back with your content in structured markdown and LaTeX. Review it in the editor and make any corrections.
Export
Download your accessible document as PDF, DOCX, or HTML. All formats include proper structure, alt text, and accessibility validation.
See the difference
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Mathematical Notation, Carefully Handled
Handwritten proofs are full of symbols that trip up generic OCR — integrals, summations, Greek letters, subscripts stacked three levels deep. AccessibleNotes recognizes mathematical notation and renders it as properly typeset LaTeX. Review the result in the editor, make any corrections, and export — readable by everyone.
See your time savings
How many handwritten pages do you process per week?
Estimates based on ~15 min/page for manual transcription at $20/hr, and 15 weeks per semester.
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