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Image OCR

What This Solves

When the material you want to study is on paper, in a textbook, in a lecture screenshot, or in a photo on your phone, you do not have to type it out manually. Aelano can recognize the text, put it into the text input flow, and turn the reviewed result into learnable audio and subtitles.

Where to Find Image OCR

Open the Aelano Home page and look in the import panel:

  • Mobile: the entry is called Scan to Import and lets you take a photo or choose one from your album
  • Desktop: the entry is called Scan Image and opens the system file picker

You can also find the same entry in the expanded import list.

Supported Images

Common image formats are supported, including:

jpg, jpeg, png, heic, heif, webp, bmp, gif, tiff, and tif

Each image must be no larger than 10 MB. If the original is too large, crop or compress it before scanning.

How to Use It

1. Take or choose an image

On mobile, take a photo of a page or choose an existing image from your album. On desktop, choose a screenshot, downloaded image, or scan from the file picker.

If you select several images at once, each image becomes a page in the recognition screen. A thumbnail strip at the top lets you switch between pages and keep them in order.

2. Choose the recognition language

The recognition screen supports two approaches:

  • Full scan: keep all text recognized from the image. This is useful when a page contains body text, headings, definitions, or multiple languages.
  • Target language only: keep only the learning language you choose. This is useful for bilingual pages where you do not want to import every line.

New images added during the same import follow the current recognition language setting, so you do not have to answer the same question for every page.

3. Wait for recognition and review the text

The result appears progressively in the editor. Once recognition finishes, you can correct a typo, remove headers and footers, restore a missing word, or adjust the paragraphs.

The recognition screen also supports:

  • Try again when the current image fails
  • Pick another to replace the current page
  • Crop & rescan on mobile to recognize only a selected area
  • Delete to remove the current page (at least one page must remain)

4. Add more pages and generate content

Tap the + card at the end of the thumbnail strip to add another image. When every page looks right, tap Next in the top-right corner. Aelano merges the text in page order and sends it to the Text Input screen.

You can edit it again there, then tap Preview to generate the content.

Things to Keep in Mind

  • Keep the page flat and evenly lit; glare and heavy shadows reduce recognition quality.
  • If the text is small or tilted, crop to the relevant area and scan it again.
  • Changing the recognition language rescans every image and replaces manually edited text. Confirm before switching.
  • OCR only turns the image into text. Review titles, proper nouns, and numbers before generating audio.

Common Questions

What should I do if no text is recognized?

Make sure the image contains clear, visible text and is under 10 MB. You can also take a clearer photo, choose another image, or use Crop & rescan on a smaller area.

My image contains both Chinese and English. Can I keep only English?

Yes. Choose English as the target language and Aelano will keep only that language in the result. Choose Full scan when you want to keep the whole page.

Where does the recognized text go?

After you tap Next, the text goes to the Text Input screen. You can edit it there, preview it, and generate the study content.

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