TextSnap: Image to Text OCR

Aplogon

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About this app

Point your camera at a page, sign, receipt or screen, and get the text in seconds. TextSnap is a fast OCR text scanner: it extracts text from images so you can copy, edit, share, translate and save it as a PDF, all on your phone and even offline.

Image to text in one tap
• Scan text with the camera, or pick photos from your gallery
• Scan multi-page documents: page edges are found and straightened for you
• Crop and rotate before the text is read
• Text comes out in clean paragraphs, ready to copy, edit and share
• Tap any highlighted block on the photo to copy just that part

Reads many languages
• Latin alphabet: English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Indonesian and more
• Chinese, Japanese and Korean
• Hindi, Marathi, Nepali and other Devanagari languages

Translate offline
• Translate scanned text between 59 languages
• The language is detected automatically, page by page
• Each language downloads once, then translates without internet

Save as PDF or text
• Export searchable PDFs: search and copy the text in any PDF reader
• Save as a text file, or share straight to email, chat or notes
• Edit the text before you save it

QR code and barcode scanner
• Open links, copy Wi-Fi passwords, call numbers and open places in maps
• Read codes live with the camera, or from a screenshot
• Look up product barcodes and books (ISBN)

Listen to your scans
Have any scan read aloud with your phone's voice, at the speed you like.

Your library
• Every scan and code is saved on your phone
• Search by title or by the text inside
• Rename, edit and delete

Private by design
• Text recognition, translation and QR reading all happen on your phone
• No account and no sign-up
• Your photos and text are never uploaded
• The only permission it asks for is the camera

Simple, clean design
Clear screens, light and dark mode, and big buttons where you need them.

How to copy text from an image
1. Tap Scan Text and point at the page, or choose a photo
2. Crop if you like, then tap Done
3. Copy, translate, listen or save it as a PDF

Download TextSnap, the text scanner that turns any photo into text you can use.

What’s new

Welcome to TextSnap!
• Copy text from any photo, page, sign or screen
• Scan multi-page documents and save them as searchable PDFs
• Translate into 59 languages, offline once downloaded
• Read QR codes and barcodes: links, Wi-Fi, products and books
• Listen to your scans read aloud
• Reads English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hindi and more
• Light and dark mode
Your photos and text stay on your phone.