HandNotes: teaching an open model to read my friend's handwriting, on his own laptop

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend My friend writes down everything in class. Every lecture, every assignment, page after page. The problem shows up the night before an exam: he photographs his notes, uploads them to an AI chatbot, asks for a summary, and gets nothing useful back. It can't read his handwriting. When I ran his pages through a vision model myself, I found something worse than "can't read it".