The AI Essay Grader
that reads handwriting

In short:

• Handwritten essays: yes, scanned or photographed, cursive or print.

• Typed and digital essays: yes, PDF, DOCX, images.

• Your own rubric: yes, your criteria, your point allocation.

• Criterion-by-criterion partial credit: yes, with the justification quoted from the essay.

• Teacher review before students see anything: always. You read the feedback, edit any score and approve the set before export.

• Batch grading: yes, upload a whole class at once, about 30 seconds per essay.

• Languages: English, French, Spanish and German.

• Levels: primary school through higher education.

• Free papers: 10 a month, no credit card required.

We combine handwriting OCR with a rubric-aware grading model. The AI transcribes the essay (including crossed-out sentences, inserted paragraphs and margin notes), then reads it against your criteria, not against a generic scale. For each criterion it proposes a score and quotes the passage that justifies it, the way you would underline it with a red pen.

Yes, and you should. Upload or type your criteria (thesis, argument, use of evidence, organization, style, mechanics, whatever your department uses) with the points attached to each. Examino grades against that rubric and returns a criterion-level breakdown, so the scores line up with what you already tell students. If you don't have a rubric on hand, Examino proposes one from the prompt and you edit it.

Argumentative, persuasive, narrative and expository essays, literary analysis and commentary, document-based questions, free-response and extended-response answers, book reports, reading responses, case studies, lab reports, take-home exams, term papers and dissertations. Because Examino is not built around one subject, the same account also grades short answers, math work and diagrams, useful when you teach more than one course.

Every score comes with the criterion it maps to and the passage it was based on, so you can check it in seconds. You read the feedback, edit any score you disagree with and approve the class set before anything is exported or handed back. Grading against your own rubric is what keeps the scores consistent: the AI applies your standard, not a generic one.

Yes. Every teacher gets 10 free papers a month, no credit card required. That's enough to run a real assignment through it before deciding.

Two differences matter most.

First, Examino starts from paper. Most writing-feedback tools assume a digital document you paste or upload. If your students still hand in handwritten essays and exam booklets, that's the whole workflow, so scanning, transcription and grading are one step here, not three.

Second, Examino is not a single-subject tool. Essays today, a history DBQ tomorrow, a math test next week, a biology lab report after that: same dashboard, same rubric logic, same exports. Teachers tell us the multi-subject coverage is what makes it stick, because it replaces the whole grading stack rather than one corner of it. Teaching math too? The same account includes an AI math grader that awards partial credit step by step from your rubric.

Yes. Examino grades essays in English, French, Spanish and German, and the interface is available in all four. Language teachers use it both ways: to grade essays written in the target language, and to grade literature essays written in the students' first language.

Yes. Examino is FERPA-compliant. Student work is hosted in the EU under GDPR, student names are redacted automatically, and the AI providers we use are contractually barred from training on student work. You can delete student work at any time.

Yes. Students scan their essay with their phone via a QR code that opens their native camera: no app store, no account creation, no login. It is one of the most-loved features among teachers using Examino with school classes.

Examino supports LTI 1.3, the standard used by most learning management systems, so your school can connect it to the LMS it already uses. Without an integration, you can still export annotated PDFs, Word files and grade summaries and upload them wherever your grades live.