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Image to Text: a handwriting OCR scanner for iPhone

Take a photo of a page, a whiteboard, a receipt or a handwritten note and get text you can copy, clean up and export. It reads on your iPhone, works offline, and nothing leaves the phone.

Download on the App Store

For iPhone. Free for 3 scans a day, then Image to Text Pro.

Scan, Photos or FilesUse the camera with a page-shaped guide, pick photos from your library, or open images and PDFs from Files. Crop and rotate first if you like.
Handwriting and printNotes, letters, whiteboards, receipts and book pages. Tap a word to see where it was on the page.
Clean upOne switch joins the broken lines from the page into real paragraphs and fixes double spaces.
Copy, share, exportCopy all with one tap, share the text, or export a .txt, a PDF or a Markdown file.

Why the line breaks matter

Most text scanners keep every line break from the page, so a pasted paragraph arrives as a ragged column you have to fix by hand. Clean up joins the lines of each paragraph, keeps lists as lists, and rejoins words that were split with a hyphen at the end of a line.

Private by design

Recognition runs on the iPhone itself. There is no account, nothing is uploaded, and the app works in airplane mode. Your scans are kept in a list on the phone until you delete them.

Questions

Does Image to Text work offline?

Yes. The text is read on your iPhone, so scanning, cleaning up and exporting all work in airplane mode. No account is needed.

Does it read handwriting?

Yes. It reads printed text and handwriting: notes, letters, whiteboards and forms. Clear, joined-up or neat print handwriting reads best. Words it was unsure of get a faint underline, and you can tap any word to see where it was on the page.

Is my photo uploaded anywhere?

No. Photos and text stay on your iPhone. The app has no account, no analytics and no ads, and it does not send your images or text to any server. The privacy policy has the details.

What does Image to Text Pro cost?

The app is free for 3 scans a day, with copy and share. Image to Text Pro adds unlimited scans, Clean up, export to .txt, PDF and Markdown, and documents with any number of pages. It is $4.99 a week with 3 days free for new subscribers, or $29.99 a year. Prices are in US dollars and can differ by country.

How do I export to PDF?

Open a scan, tap Export and choose PDF. The app lays the text out as a clean page, one source page after another, and opens the share sheet so you can save it to Files, mail it or print it. Export needs Pro; free users can preview the PDF first.