How to Make Text in Photos Readable: Enhance Documents, Receipts, and Whiteboards

Photos of documents, receipts, and whiteboards are often hard to read. Learn how to enhance them with brightness, contrast, and sharpening adjustments.

You took a photo of a whiteboard after a meeting. You photographed a receipt for your expense report. You snapped a picture of a handwritten note. And now you cannot read any of them because the lighting was bad, the angle was off, or your phone's camera could not capture the detail.

This is one of the most common practical photography problems, and it has a simple solution: post-processing with brightness, contrast, and sharpening adjustments.

Our Image Text Enhancer provides the adjustments you need: