Photo to Text

Converts images to text

Uses OCR.space API to convert images to text. Get your free api key at OCR.space. Make sure the file is saved to your device before running the Shortcut.

Credits:

Thanks to Mike Beasley and Midnite for helping me understand how to get the JSON values.

made by @heyitzspencer

Latest Release Notes

1.0 - Oct. 19, 2018, 10:04 p.m.

-Initial release

Past versions

Feedback

@gsanjay

Possible to have this the other way round, I.e Text to Images ?
Reply · 1 year, 6 months ago

@heyitzspencer Author

Yeah, I'm sure this is possible, but I'm not sure how to make the image only show the text rather than the text and a bunch of whitespace. It'd be something like `Text`, `Make PDF`, `Get Images from Input`, and `Crop Image`.
Reply · 1 year, 6 months ago

@gsanjay

Maybe if its possible to find a way to pull a random background image and then combine the text with it to create an output of it. I know its tricky but if a right source is found using a profile to scan image with a certain word it should work.
Reply · 1 year, 6 months ago