Pull editable text out of photos, screenshots, and scanned pages with OCR, then send it to Word, Excel, or your clipboard.
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There is no need to install a program or download an app. CamScanner works online with any web-browser. All you need is a stable internet connection.
We have many servers in the cloud which do nothing else than reading text off images. So, lean back and let them do the work.
A photo of a page holds no text a computer can find. OCR reads the characters, works out where the lines and paragraphs sit, and hands back content you can edit, search, and copy.
Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, French, German, Spanish, Russian, and more. A page that switches between two scripts mid-paragraph still comes through.
Send a recognized page to Word to keep editing, to Excel when the image held a table, or copy it to the clipboard when you just need a paragraph pasted somewhere.
Works in your browser on any device — nothing to install.
Drag and drop the photo or screenshot, pick it from your device, or import it from your CamScanner account.
CamScanner recognizes the characters and rebuilds the text layout.
Send the result to Word or Excel, download it as plain text, or copy it straight to your clipboard.
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.
Researcher
Archive material comes to me as scans and photographs, and quoting from it used to mean transcribing by hand. OCR turns a page image into text I can search, which is the difference between finding a reference in seconds and reading forty pages to locate it. For older print the recognition isn't perfect, but correcting a few characters beats retyping a paragraph.
Content Creator
Half the material I want to quote lives in a screenshot or a photo of a printed page. Running it through OCR gets me the text without retyping it, so I can pull a passage into a draft and credit it properly. It also means I can search back through old screenshots for something I remember reading.
Student
Lecturers fill a whiteboard and wipe it before I've finished writing, so I photograph it instead. OCR converts those photos into notes I can actually revise from, and I do the same with textbook pages I don't want to carry around. Searching my own notes by keyword is what makes it worth it.
Yes. You can run OCR in your browser without installing anything.
Use Image to Text directly in your browser, with no installation.
Scan the QR code to download the app, and capture with enhancement in one step.
