Photo to Text Converter
A photo-to-text converter helps you recover editable words from a picture. ScanText.io reads visible printed text from supported image files without requiring an account.
When this is useful
- Digitizing a printed note, poster, or letter from a phone photo.
- Extracting a product label or storefront sign into text.
- Creating an editable starting point from a photographed page.
How to get better results
- Hold the camera parallel to the page to reduce perspective distortion.
- Use bright, indirect light and tap to focus on the text before taking the photo.
- Take separate photos of long documents instead of shrinking the entire page too far.
What to expect
Photos can introduce blur, glare, and tilted lines that lower OCR accuracy. Retake the picture if you cannot comfortably read the text yourself.