


The app comes from Gentlemen Coders who make the popular RAW Power photo editing app for iOS/macOS. In our testing, this is the best iPhone and iPad app to convert images to text, and there’s also a Mac version of LiveScan.

Related: Tested: TextSniper is a great Mac utility for converting graphics to text How to convert iPhone images to text LiveScan for iPhone, iPad, and Mac So let’s look at options to streamline the process. This is an important distinction, as traditional scanning apps with OCR usually have you save new documents as PDFs (or other formats) and then you have to open the PDF, find the text you want, and copy it. While there are many apps that offer OCR (optical character recognition) scanning for iPhone and iPad ( Genius Scan is a great advanced option), it’s much more rare to find an app that immediately converts images and more to text right on your clipboard. Whether you want to quickly convert images to text from Twitter, the web, or your own screenshots or want to grab data from the real world and make it easy to save, share, etc., iPhone is a handy tool to make that happen. Read along for how to convert iPhone images to text available right on your clipboard. The tried-and-true copy/paste combo is a staple of productivity but that can grind to a halt when you need to quickly grab text from the real world or existing screenshots and pictures.
