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- Open your Camera app, point it at the text, then press the Live Text button. It looks like three lines in a box. Once your Camera recognizes text, a box will appear around the text you can select. Select your desired text to copy, paste, look up, etc.
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You can select text to copy, share, or translate, or you can use quick actions to perform tasks like make a phone call, open a website, or convert currencies. Live Text can be used in other apps such as Safari, Photos, Quick Look, and more.
Use Live Text with your iPhone camera. Camera can copy, share, look up, and translate text that appears within the camera frame. Camera also provides quick actions to easily call phone numbers, visit websites, convert currencies, and more, based on the text that appears in the frame.
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How-to
By Bryan M Wolfe
published 23 May 2022
Use to scan text and documents
(Image credit: Apple)
Apple adds a lot of new features to the iPhone each year. Some of these features, such as iOS 15's SharePlay and Shared with You, are heavily promoted by Apple. Others, such as the ability to scan text from the iPhone's built-in camera, are not.
Thanks to the Scan Text feature in iOS 15 and iPadOS 15, you can turn your iPhone and iPad into a document scanner by importing text from any document seen through your device's camera. The feature works with native apps that allow you to write text, such as Messages, Notes, and Reminders.
Once your camera finds the text, it instantly scans it and places it in the text-entry area.
To begin using Scan Text, you'll want to open up an app that includes a text-entry area. In the example below, the Messages app is used. Next, in the text-entry area, you'll want to tap and hold for a few seconds before releasing your finger. This should bring up the scanner icon that includes the words "Scan Text."
Next, tap "Scan Text," which activates scanning mode. From here, point your device's camera at the text you wish to scan and collect. Tap ". Tap "Scan Text" — or the scanner icon — and your camera will now be in scanning mode. Now, point your camera at the text you want to scan, and it will appear in the text entry field—tap"Insert" when you're ready to import it.
If you plan to use the Notes app with the built-in scanner, there's a slightly more straightforward way. To get started, open the Notes app on your iPhone or iPad. Next, tap on the camera icon within a note, then choose Scan Text. Next, position the iPhone, so the text appears within the camera frame. Once a yellow frame appears, tap the Scan Text icon. Next, drag and use grab points to select the text, then tap Insert.
To scan a document from the Notes app, bring up a note, and tap the camera icon. Choose Scan Documents. Next, position the device, so the document page appears on the screen. Your iPhone will automatically capture the page. You can also manually capture a document by tapping the shutter button or pressing a volume button. Tap the flash indicator to turn the flash on or off. Tap the flash indicator to turn the flash on or off.
Scan additional pages as necessary. Choose Save when finished.
Once you've saved the document via the Scan Text feature, you can make edits and other changes. The saved document includes icons for adding more pages, crapping the image, applying a filter, rotating the image, marking up the document, and deleting the scan.
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May 6, 2022 · How to use Live Text in the Camera app. Launch the Camera app on your iPhone or iPad. Point the viewfinder at something with text until you see a yellow viewfinder rectangle appear on the screen. Once the Camera app recognizes text, tap the Live Text button (it looks like a viewfinder square with three lines inside it) in the bottom right corner.
Live Text can detect text found in photographs, making it easy to select and copy the text to use elsewhere. Live Text can also detect text found in the viewfinder while using the Camera app, and your device can read it aloud.
Jan 17, 2024 · Open your Camera app, point it at the text, then press the Live Text button. It looks like three lines in a box. Once your Camera recognizes text, a box will appear around the text you can select. Select your desired text to copy, paste, look up, etc.
Oct 25, 2021 · Option 1: Scan Real-World Text in the Camera App. Open up your Camera app from the lock screen, Control Center, App Library, home screen, search tool, or wherever you usually open it, select "Photo" mode, then point it at the text you want to scan so that it's within the camera's frame.
