Import a screenshot or saved image
You don’t need to take the photo right now. Anything sitting in your phone’s photo library — a screenshot of subtitles, a social-media post you saved, an ebook page, a screenshot of a chat — can be imported into SnapVerbo and treated exactly like a freshly taken photo.
Import an image
On the Capture screen:
- Tap Choose from gallery (the button with the photo-library icon).
- Grant photo-library access if your phone asks the first time.
- Pick the image. SnapVerbo opens it on the OCR result screen.
From there, everything works the same as a camera capture — tap a word, swipe a phrase, drag a box, save into a wordbook. See Selecting text in your photo.
What works well as an import
- Subtitles screenshots — pause a show, screenshot the line you didn’t catch, import.
- Social media posts — a tweet or comment with an unfamiliar word.
- Ebook pages — Kindle, Apple Books, Libby — screenshot the paragraph and import.
- Chat messages — a Spanish text from a friend, a French message in a group chat.
- Photos you took elsewhere — a sign you snapped in your camera roll without thinking to use SnapVerbo at the time.
When sharing is faster
If the source app supports the share sheet (most do), sharing the text directly to SnapVerbo skips OCR entirely and is more reliable. See Share text from another app into SnapVerbo.
Use Choose from gallery when the original is image-only (a screenshot, a photo) or when the source app doesn’t expose the text via the share sheet.