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The tool reads printed text from everything that passes through your hands every day: a scanned contract or acceptance certificate, a photo of a delivery note or receipt, a screenshot of an email with payment details, a product label, a sign with opening hours. Add an image, and the text extracted from it appears on the sheet, where you can edit it. All that’s left is to read it through and check amounts and numbers against the original.

You get plain text, without fonts or formatting. The “Join lines” switch merges the lines of each paragraph, so there are no stray line breaks in Word or an email. “As in the photo” keeps the lines as they are in the image, which makes it easier to move delivery note or receipt items into a spreadsheet. Even old Windows Notepad shows Cyrillic in the .txt file correctly.

How to take the photo so there’s less to fix

  1. Shoot a document, receipt or delivery note straight from above in daylight, and make sure your phone doesn’t cast a shadow on the text. Set your scanner to 300 dpi.
  2. Shoot labels and signs without flash: glare hides the letters. Move closer instead of using digital zoom, and cut away the background with the “Crop” frame.
  3. Crop out stamps and signatures too if they sit apart from the text: the tool can’t read them anyway.
  4. Turn on only the languages that are in the text: with extra ones, recognition is slower and similar letters get mixed up more often. A Russian document without Russian turned on reads noticeably worse.

Which images read well and which don’t

Reads well

  • A scan or straight photo of a printed document
  • A screenshot of an email or chat, even in dark mode
  • A fresh receipt and a delivery note from a printer
  • A label or sign with clear printed lettering

Reads poorly

  • Handwritten notes and jottings in the margins
  • Stamps and signatures over the text: they can add stray characters
  • Faded thermal paper, a blurry photo, shadow or glare
  • Tables and columns: only the text is kept, line by line

How to turn a batch of photos into one block of text

  1. Drag photos onto the page or press “Choose photos” and select several. On a phone, you can take them with the camera.
  2. Look through the photo cards: if one is marked “Unclear”, crop away anything extra, turn it with the “Rotate” button or retake the photo.
  3. Check the text on the sheet and press “Copy text”, or save a file with the “Download .txt” button.

What you no longer have to retype

  • Payment details from a partner A partner sent their payment details as an image in Telegram. Copy it, paste it onto the page with Ctrl+V and move the company name, company code and IBAN into your accounting software. No need to type a long IBAN digit by digit, just check it.
  • A day’s delivery notes and receipts Take photos of the day’s delivery notes and receipts and add them in one batch. On a phone, you can send the finished text straight to your accountant through a messaging app with the “Share” button.
  • Labels for product listings You need to move the name, SKU and composition from labels into product listings. Photograph the labels and copy the lines you need from the sheet straight into the listing.

Questions

Which photos and files work?

Photos, scans and screenshots with printed text: JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF and HEIC (iPhone photos). PDFs don’t open directly: turn the pages into images with the “PDF to JPG” tool on this same site.

How many photos can I add, and what order will the text come out in?

Several at once, and if you forgot something, press “Add more photos”. The text from the photos is combined into one, in the order you added them, so add contract pages one by one, starting with the first.

Can I fix the text before copying it?

Yes, right on the sheet: replace mixed-up characters such as O and 0 or I and 1, add anything missing, remove stray characters. Rotate and crop photos before you edit: after that, the text is recognized from scratch.

Do I need an internet connection?

Only for the first recognition: the browser downloads the language models (a few megabytes) and keeps them in its storage. After that, the tool works offline too, for example in a warehouse. You can add it to your home screen and open it like an app.

Does it read handwriting?

Poorly. Neatly hand-printed letters are sometimes read, quick handwriting almost never. On a filled-in form, the printed field names are usually recognized, but anything written in by pen you’ll have to type yourself.

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