Use OCR technology to recognize text in images, converting image content into text you can copy and edit.
Recognize printed text, tables, and handwriting to meet a range of extraction needs.
Support Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, and more, so you can extract text from images in different languages.
Got a thick stack of contracts, records, and invoices to get into your computer, and tired of typing them out word by word? Take a photo, extract the text with CamScanner OCR, and turn it straight into an editable Word or PDF file. Archiving, searching, and later editing all become easy, so digitizing paper documents happens in a single step.
Piles of expense claims, shipping slips, and lab reports to enter, and typing them in until midnight while worrying about mistakes? Recognize and extract them in bulk with CamScanner OCR, and the numbers go straight into an Excel spreadsheet, with amounts landing in the right cells automatically. Reconciling accounts and building reports for finance and admin gets twice as fast, with no all-nighters required.
Want to get paper textbooks, mistake journals, and handwritten notes into your note-taking app? Snap them and convert them to digital text with CamScanner OCR, so you can search, edit, and annotate on the fly, and even build a searchable e-book. Everything is one tap away when you study, and you'll never have to copy it all out by hand again.
Can't read foreign-language product images, manuals, or email screenshots? Extract the text from the image with CamScanner and pair it with translation to understand the content fast. Cross-border sellers and foreign trade teams no longer get stuck on language, and handling overseas information becomes quick and accurate.
I often need to enter paper contracts, notices, and reports into the computer, and typing them out word by word used to be slow and error-prone. Now I photograph them with CamScanner, and it quickly pulls the text out of the image and copies it into Word, ready to edit after a quick check. Organizing and entering documents day to day has gotten a lot easier, and my productivity has clearly gone up.
Every month I handle a large volume of expense claims, invoices, and cost breakdowns, and entering the data by hand is time-consuming and easy to misread or misalign. Now I scan and recognize them in bulk with CamScanner, so I can quickly pull out amounts, dates, and other details to organize into spreadsheets and check. It saves a lot of time and effort when I work through receipts and financial records.
I can photograph textbooks, incorrect questions, and handwritten notes, then use CamScanner to recognize and organize them into digital text and save them to my note-taking app. When I review, I can find what I need fast by keyword and add highlights and annotations on the fly. I no longer have to copy study materials out word by word, which saves a lot of time studying for exams and organizing notes.
On the WebOpen CamScanner's Image to Text page. No installation needed, and you can use it online right away; Upload your image file: drag and drop it, choose it from your device, or import it from CamScanner; Click the Extract Text button, and the text in the image is recognized automatically; Then download or copy the recognized text.
Mobile AppOn the home page, select Extract Text, then import an image or document (single or multiple pages). Open the image and tap Word to recognize the text, which you can edit directly; or tap Share > Share as Text to export it (without the original formatting).
Tip: Basic accounts get up to 10 recognitions. With Premium, you get 1,000 OCR text recognitions per month. The size and font of the recognized text can't be adjusted.
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