What follows is what the camera carries through, what it drops, and how to point it so nothing important is lost.
WeSolve+ reads the whole document and writes the questions for you
Upload your PDF, photograph your notebook, or point the camera. WeSolve+ writes questions from that material, explains why each answer is right, reads the chapter back to you as a podcast, and remembers every item you missed until you own it.
The tool below is a small browser-only tool and it is not WeSolve+: paste a few lines and text rules turn them into cards on the spot. The real app, the one that uses AI, is behind the link above.
Type the page in, get questions out
This is a browser-only tool, and that is all it isIt splits the text you paste by rule, and nothing else. WeSolve+ is a different thing entirely: it reads your whole PDF with AI, writes the reasoning behind every question, speaks the chapter back to you, and remembers what you missed so it can return it. Try the real app now, free!
This tool uses text rules, not AI, and it cannot read an image. Photographing a page is what the app does; this page's tool works from text you type or paste, so you can see the question shape before installing anything. Your text stays in the browser and is never sent anywhere.
What a photograph is good at
Printed text, and it is very good at it. A clean shot of a textbook page or a worksheet gives the same result as a file, because character recognition on printed type is a solved problem. The advantage is availability: the page in front of you never needs to have been a file first.
How to take one that reads cleanly
Four things, in order of how often they matter. Fill the frame with the page rather than the desk. Flatten the spine or hold the page down, because curved text is where recognition first fails. Shoot from directly above instead of at an angle. And take two pages as two photographs, not one wide shot, since halving the resolution halves what survives.
What a photograph drops
Anything the words do not carry. A diagram with unlabelled arrows, a graph whose meaning lives in its shape, a table whose columns matter more than its cells: these come through as marks rather than as content, and questions built from them will be thin. When the page is mostly a figure, the honest move is to write one sentence yourself about what the figure shows, then photograph the page and add that sentence.
Questions, not a transcript
What comes back is not the page retyped. It is a set of questions built from what the page asserts, each carrying the reasoning behind its answer so you can check the method rather than accept a result. That distinction is the whole point: reading a page again produces recognition, and being asked about it produces retrieval, which is the thing that survives to an exam.
One page at a time beats a whole chapter
The temptation is to photograph twenty pages at once and feel finished. Twenty pages produce a set too large to attempt in one sitting, and a set you never attempt teaches nothing. A single dense page produces enough questions for fifteen minutes, which is a session you will actually complete. Spreading the work costs nothing and is the part most people skip.
Where this sits in WeSolve+
Photograph, upload a PDF, or point the camera: all three arrive at the same place, and what comes back is questions, a deck and a short spoken recap, with missed items returned on later days. PDF, photograph or camera, whichever the material happens to be. Free to start on web and iPhone. See pricing, PDF to quiz and all features.
| On the page | Comes through | What to do |
|---|---|---|
| Printed paragraphs | Yes, fully | Nothing, this is the easy case |
| Printed table | Usually, if columns are clear | Shoot straight on |
| Labelled diagram | The labels, not the relations | Add one sentence of your own |
| Unlabelled graph | Little | Write what it shows, then shoot |
| Curved page near the spine | Partly | Flatten or hold the page down |
| Two pages in one shot | Reduced on both | Take two photographs |
Sources used on this page
- Optical character recognition
- Textbook
- Worksheet
- Photography
- Image resolution
- Diagram
- Active recall
- Distributed practice
- Spaced repetition
- Testing effect
- Forgetting curve
- Desirable difficulty
- Generation effect
- Metacognition
- Formative assessment
- Educational technology
- Multiple choice
- Study skills
- Study guide
- Test (assessment)
- Instructional scaffolding
- Overlearning
- Item analysis
- Educational assessment
- Note-taking
- Cloze test
- Flashcard
- Judgment of learning
Can I photograph a textbook page instead of uploading a PDF?
Yes, and for printed text the result is the same. Recognition on printed type is reliable, so the file and the photograph arrive at the same place.
What makes a photograph fail?
Curve, angle and cramming. A page bent near the spine, a shot taken from the side, or two pages squeezed into one frame are the three things that cost the most.
Do diagrams work?
Labels come through; relationships often do not. If the meaning lives in the shape of a figure rather than its words, write one sentence about what it shows before you photograph the page.
How many pages should I do at once?
One dense page is usually enough for a fifteen minute session. Twenty pages produce a set too large to attempt, and a set you never attempt teaches nothing.
Is the photograph stored?
It is tied to your account and kept encrypted, and unused files are cleaned up after a period. The privacy page sets out what is kept and how to have it deleted.
Does the tool on this page read images?
No. It works from text you type or paste, so you can see the question shape before installing anything. Reading a photograph is what the app does.
Last updated: 2026-08-11