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.
Describe this shortcutCredit is required before Turin builds it. Review the actions, then install.
Signed-in users can build one custom AI shortcut each day for free, subject to free-model availability. Continued generation uses prepaid credit according to model usage, and a 0.1 credit compile fee applies only when an installable paid shortcut is stored. No subscription or App Store download is required.
Compatibility depends on the actions the shortcut uses and the software on your device. Review the generated actions before installing, especially when a shortcut relies on newer Apple features or third-party apps.
It depends on its actions. Device-only actions can run locally, while web, weather, AI, and other online services need a connection. Turin needs a connection to build and install the shortcut.
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.