Mt. San Antonio College
Accessible Technology Center

Procedure: Image to Text That’s Read Out Loud
Apps: Mobile OCR & Notes
(iOS Version)

Matthew Dawood
mdawood@mtsac.edu

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NOTE: Before starting, please make sure to download Talk – Text to Voice Free app.

Download app called Mobile OCR. (Cost = $2.99 for full version | $0.00 for limited version)

2.	Open Mobile OCR application.

3.	Press Camera.

4.	Take picture of text that you want read back 
and press Use Photo.

5.	Press Convert to begin text extraction.

6.	Once the text extracting process is complete. 
Press Copy to clipboard.

7.	Open Notes 

8.	Press the cursor and the ‘Paste’ option will display, press Paste.

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9.	Extracted Text from the image will display.
Press cursor and text options will display, press Select All.

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10.	All text will be highlighted; press Speak  to have text read out loud. 

(Text will be highlighted as it is read out loud.)