# Uploading an image of a canvas to cloudinary **URL:** \ **Category:** Questions about Thunkable X\ **Created:** [November 21, 2020, 7:22am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/uploading-an-image-of-a-canvas-to-cloudinary/989016 "2020-11-21T07:22:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![codeswept](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/codeswept/32/87755_2.png) [@codeswept](https://community.thunkable.com/u/codeswept)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2021, 7:34am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/uploading-an-image-of-a-canvas-to-cloudinary/989016/101 "2021-06-28T07:34:27Z")
Ohhhh… I didn’t know anything about baseball, but you told me loads in your post ! Thank you so much… I’ve got a question though: OCR APIs are able to recognize different styles of handwriting on paper, why is it so different with a canvas image? Ideally the users (little kids) will be using a mobile device or tablet, so they’ll be writing by hand. The handwriting will be similar to their original handwriting with pencils on paper. Sorry for the silly question. ---
**Author:** ![manyone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@manyone](https://community.thunkable.com/u/manyone)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2021, 7:49am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/uploading-an-image-of-a-canvas-to-cloudinary/989016/102 "2021-06-28T07:49:43Z")
OCR was originally invented to “read” printed/typeset material so we can feed a PDF into an OCR reader and it would produce an editable word document. it is based on what i mentioned above. letters in the same font, say Times Roman, are printed and shaped the same way, except in size. OCR software already knows Times Roman and dozens more - that’s why it is can handle most printed documents. i doubt if the OCR API you mention can handle handwritten documents, though - unless they are not just plain OCR readers but machine learning assisted readers. ---
**Author:** ![manyone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@manyone](https://community.thunkable.com/u/manyone)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2021, 9:20am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/uploading-an-image-of-a-canvas-to-cloudinary/989016/103 "2021-06-28T09:20:51Z")
to give you an idea what i mean by machine-learning and artifiical intelligence - but from a different angle. visit this site: > **[Quick, Draw! The Data](https://quickdraw.withgoogle.com/data)** > > What would you do with 50,000,000 drawings made by real people on the internet? don’t forget to click on “Play the Game”! it’s fascinating! ---
**Author:** ![codeswept](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/codeswept/32/87755_2.png) [@codeswept](https://community.thunkable.com/u/codeswept)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2021, 9:27am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/uploading-an-image-of-a-canvas-to-cloudinary/989016/104 "2021-06-28T09:27:36Z")
It is cool! That’s what I’m trying to accomplish, except I want to recognize text ‘drawn’ on the canvas, instead of images. The artificial intelligence somehow managed to recognize my half-finished lopsided painting of a mouth, but couldn’t recognize a relatively better picture of a car, though. ---
**Author:** ![tony.ycy.program](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/tony.ycy.program/32/100153_2.png) [@tony.ycy.program](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tony.ycy.program)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2021, 2:46pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/uploading-an-image-of-a-canvas-to-cloudinary/989016/105 "2021-08-27T14:46:13Z")
This cannot be used on android? ---
**Author:** ![ioannis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/ioannis/32/146956_2.png) [@ioannis](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ioannis)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2024, 12:21pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/uploading-an-image-of-a-canvas-to-cloudinary/989016/106 "2024-11-08T12:21:30Z")
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