Camera / OCR Scan

Scan a printed deed and the app reads the legal description using on-device text recognition — no internet connection or API key required. The scanner captures one page or many in a single session, auto-crops and straightens each page, and stitches a multi-page deed into one description. All processing happens locally on your device.

1

Open the Deed Text tab and tap Scan

Tap +, select the Deed Text tab, then tap Scan Deed (1 or more pages). The document scanner opens.

Note: Camera access must be granted the first time. The app will prompt you if it hasn't been allowed yet.

2

Scan the page(s) — hold the phone in portrait

Hold your phone upright (portrait) over the deed page, with the text reading normally. The scanner detects the document edges, straightens the page, and enhances the text automatically — then captures. If the metes-and-bounds description runs across more than one page, scan the next page too; repeat for each page, then tap Save.

Tips for best results: Scan in portrait with the document oriented the normal way up — a sideways/landscape scan can garble the recognition. Scan multi-page deeds in reading order (page 1 first). Good lighting, a flat page, and filling the frame with the text give the cleanest read; flatten a folded deed before scanning.

3

Review the recognized text

The app runs on-device OCR on each page in order, stitches them into one description, and populates the deed text field automatically. Review the extracted text and correct any recognition errors before parsing.

Tie-line courses are handled for you: if the deed opens with a "To reach the Point of Beginning, commence at…" preamble (a route from a street corner to the parcel), the parser skips those tie courses and reads only the boundary — so you can scan the whole description without trimming it first.

4

Parse and save

The app automatically triggers parsing after the scan completes. Review the leg list, then name and save your plat as you would with manually entered deed text.