The Words Come Off
Hand over a photo, a scan, or a screenshot, and what was locked in the pixels comes back as characters you can select, search, and paste somewhere else.
The text on those images ends up in a file you can search, edit, and hand on — however many images there are.
Getting the words off one picture is the part every tool does. Below: what happens when there are forty, and what happens to the text once it is out.
Hand over a photo, a scan, or a screenshot, and what was locked in the pixels comes back as characters you can select, search, and paste somewhere else.
Drop in the folder rather than the file. Forty pages of a scanned document or a month of receipts go through in one run and land together, instead of one upload forty times.
Say what you actually want: everything on the page, or only the fields you name laid out in columns, or a couple of lines saying what the thing says.
From a picture of some words to a file full of them, in three steps.
Drag in one photo or the whole folder — scans, camera shots, screenshots — and say what you want out of them.
It works through every image, lifts the text, keeps each one traceable to its source file, and assembles the result in the layout and file type you asked for.
Read the output against the originals before it goes anywhere that matters. Save the run as a Playbook so next month's batch arrives in the same columns.
Half this category promises perfect accuracy. The other half hands you one file at a time.
Two of the best-known tools here put "100% accuracy" in their page titles. Nobody can promise that: a creased receipt, a bad angle, a faint carbon copy, and any reader starts guessing. What AllyHub does instead is say so, and tell you to check the figures that matter.
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The job is almost always a folder — the whole expense claim, the whole chapter, the whole box of forms — and a tool built around a single upload turns that into an afternoon of uploading.
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Everything on the page dumped into a box is rarely what you were after. You wanted the six fields, or the total, or one sentence about what the document is. Asking for that directly skips the part where you read the dump and pull them out yourself.
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The first stack is the expensive one — that is where you settle which fields matter, what the columns are called, and what file it lands in. After that it stays on file, and your AllyHub never starts from scratch again, so the job gets faster every time.
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Anyone with a pile of paper photographed, a book they cannot copy from, forms to digitise, or a screenshot they cannot select.
A shoebox of receipts is not a data-entry problem until the deadline, and then it is the only problem. Photographing them takes ten minutes; typing them takes the evening, and the typing is where the wrong digit gets in.
You photographed the pages because the library copy could not leave the room, and now you have forty images of text you cannot search. Quoting from them means finding the right photo first, which is why the good line never makes it into the draft.
A filing cabinet is an excellent archive and a terrible database. Getting the contents into rows is the step everyone agrees should happen and nobody schedules, because it looks like weeks of somebody's attention.
The number you need is in a screenshot somebody sent you, or baked into a slide as part of the picture. It is right there and you still cannot select it, which is a small and genuinely annoying problem several times a week.
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What goes in, what comes back, and what this will not promise you.
It takes a picture that has writing in it and gives you the writing back as characters — selectable, searchable, editable. AllyHub does that for a folder as readily as for one file, and lets you say what shape the result should arrive in rather than always handing back everything on the page.
Yes. A single image runs on the free plan. Large batches, structured output into named columns, and keeping the run so the same job repeats identically sit on the paid plans.
Photos, scans, and screenshots in the usual image formats, plus scanned PDFs. Back comes plain text, a document, or a sheet — whichever you asked for. Handwriting works too, though when legibility is the actual difficulty, Handwriting to Text is the page built around that problem.
No, and be careful of anything that says it is. Recognition quality tracks the image: a flat, well-lit, printed page reads cleanly, while a creased receipt photographed at an angle is genuinely hard for any tool. Treat the output as a first pass and check the figures you are going to rely on.
Most are single-upload widgets that hand back everything on the page and leave the rest to you. Here the batch is the normal case, the output shape is something you specify, and what compounds is that specification — the columns and the file type stay on file, so the same job next month needs one line rather than setting it all up again.