Software to crop jpeg like a scanner

Factual Questions
1

Confusing title, sorry, I am looking for a way to take a picture with a digital camera of some text and have that converted as a text file or other file format and then use it like scanned text…
Anybody can help?
Thanks

2

Google “OCR."

3

As beowulff says, this process is Optical Character Recognition. Try this URL for ideas: The 7 Best Free OCR Software Apps to Convert Images Into Text

4

OCR programs will have restrictions on the input file type, so make sure your camera can save in that form; e.g. might have to be a certain type of TIFF.

5

There are many such apps on the iPhone platform. Two I have are CamScanner and FineScanner.