# How to import a recipe from a photo, screenshot or text

Turn a cookbook page, a handwritten card, a screenshot or a recipe copied from a message into a saved recipe, with up to 10 photos per recipe.

Phork It! can read a recipe from photos (a cookbook page, a handwritten card, screenshots) or from text you paste in, and write it up just like a video or website import.

## Import from photos

**1. Open Import from photos**

On **Recipes**, tap **+**, then **Import from photos**.

**2. Add your pictures**

Tap **Take photo** to use the camera, or **Choose photos** to pick from your library. You can add up to 10 pictures of one recipe.

**3. Put them in reading order**

Drag the pages into the order you'd read them, left to right. A recipe that runs over two pages or several screenshots is fine.

**4. Tap Phork It!**

The steps tick off as Phork It! reads your photos. Tap **Open recipe** when it's ready.

> **Tip:**

On a phone you can also select pictures in your Photos app, tap **Share** and pick Phork It!. They open in **Import from photos**, ready to reorder before you tap **Phork It!**.

Your photos stay with the recipe, in the order you added them. The best photo of the finished dish becomes the cover; you can change it later in **Edit**.

## Import from text

Got a recipe in a note, an email or a message? Paste it in.

**5. Copy the recipe**

Copy the whole recipe, ideally with its ingredients and steps.

**6. Open Import from text**

On **Recipes**, tap **+**, then **Import from text**, and paste it into the box. On a phone you can also share text from another app to Phork It!.

**7. Tap Phork It!**

Phork It! tidies it up into ingredients with amounts and numbered steps.

## Good to know

- **One recipe per import.** Photos or text with several different recipes are refused with "This has several recipes in it. Import one recipe at a time."
- **Photos:** JPEG, PNG and WebP pictures work. Keep the text sharp and the page flat for the best result.
- **Text:** up to 20,000 characters.
- Recipes from photos or text have no creator credit, because there's no link to credit.
- Pasting the same text twice makes a second copy. A link you import twice just opens the recipe you already have.

- [How to create a recipe from scratch or with AI](https://phorkit.com/help/en/importing/write-your-own-recipe)
- [How Phork It! writes up an imported recipe](https://phorkit.com/help/en/importing/how-imported-recipes-are-written)

Source: https://phorkit.com/help/en/importing/import-from-photos-or-text (updated 2026-11-03)