Read Spanish text from photos and scans.

Spanish documents people bring here

• Civil records such as an acta de nacimiento, acta de matrimonio or certificado, often needed for immigration or school paperwork.
• Utility bills, recibos and facturas with a NIF, CIF or RFC number you need to copy exactly.
• Rental contracts (contrato de arrendamiento) and notices from a landlord or HOA.
• School and church bulletins, parish records and printed community flyers.
• Recipes and cookbook pages, which tend to be full of ñ (piña, añadir) and accented verbs.

Spanish characters worth double-checking

• ñ versus n: año (year) and ano are very different words, so scan any word where the tilde looks faint.
• Accents that change meaning: sí/si, él/el, tú/tu, más/mas. A light accent mark is the most common miss.
• Opening marks ¿ and ¡ can be read as a stray i or !, especially at the start of a line.
• ü appears in words like pingüino and vergüenza; check it wasn't flattened to u.
• Numbers often use a period for thousands and a comma for decimals (1.250,50), so copy amounts carefully.

How to do it, step by step

1. Press the button above. Scan → Text opens with Spanish already chosen.
2. Want a PDF instead? Use the Searchable PDF links under the button; they keep Spanish selected.
3. Choose your photo or scan of the Spanish document.
4. Turn it upright with the arrows if the camera saved it sideways.
5. Press Recognize text. The very first Spanish run takes longer while the language data loads.
6. Read through for ñ and accents, then copy the text or save it as .txt.

Tips for better results

• Flatten folded certificates under a book before you photograph them; creases break up accented letters.
• Official seals and stamps over the text cause errors. Note those lines and check them against the original.
• If a form is half English, half Spanish, run it in Spanish for the Spanish part, then again in English for the rest.

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