You receive a photo of a document, see a sign you want to note down, or receive a screenshot with text you need to copy. Manually retyping text from images is tedious and error-prone. An OCR text extraction shortcut for iPhone reads text from any image using your iPhone's built-in vision intelligence and copies it to your clipboard instantly — no subscription, no third-party app required.
Share any photo, screenshot, or document image to the shortcut. It uses iOS's native Live Text OCR engine to detect and extract all readable text from the image. The extracted text is displayed in a preview and automatically copied to your clipboard, ready to paste anywhere.
Go to getturin.com and describe your shortcut (e.g., 'Extract all text from a photo and copy it to clipboard').
Wait a few seconds for Turin's AI to build the OCR shortcut.
Tap the 'Install' button to add it directly to your Apple Shortcuts app.
Uses Apple's built-in Live Text engine — fast, accurate, and completely private.
Extract text from photos, screenshots, scanned documents, whiteboard photos, and more.
The extracted text goes straight to your clipboard so you can paste it immediately without extra steps.
Ready to build this?
Just describe it in plain English and tap install. No coding, no App Store, no subscription.
Build this shortcut freeWorks on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Installs in one tap.
Yes. You can build and install this shortcut using Turin's free tier. No subscription, no App Store download required — just describe what you want and tap install.
This shortcut works on any iPhone, iPad, or Mac running iOS 16 / iPadOS 16 / macOS Ventura or later. Install it directly from Safari in one tap.
No. Once installed the shortcut runs entirely on-device using Apple's built-in Shortcuts app. An internet connection is only needed during the initial build and install step.
Absolutely. You can describe any changes to Turin and get a new version in seconds, or open the shortcut in the Apple Shortcuts app and edit the actions directly.