Extract text from image to copy, share or save as Word

Overview

Point the camera at a page in text mode, or pick a photo from your gallery, and iEdit straightens the page and reads it. The result is editable text with a row of script chips above it, so you can switch between Latin, Cyrillic, Arabic, Chinese and the other scripts if the first guess is wrong. Arabic comes out right to left. Copy the text with one tap, share it as a TXT file, or save it as TXT or Word DOCX.

Nine scripts are covered: Latin (English, Turkish, German, French, Spanish and more), Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Devanagari, Cyrillic, Arabic, Thai and Greek. On iPhone and iPad, Apple's built-in recognition handles every script except Greek; on Android, the Latin, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Devanagari models ship inside the app. The remaining scripts use open-source Tesseract models that iEdit downloads once, after asking you, in sizes from 7.6 MB to 36.7 MB. Printed text only: handwriting is not recognised.

Use it to lift a paragraph from a book, take an address off a flyer, or get a Wi-Fi password from the router sticker without retyping it. Because recognition happens on your device, it works offline once any model you need is present, and the photo stays where it was. Copying to the clipboard is always free.