Inkive: Book Highlight Scanner
Turn Highlights into Notes
Free · In‑App Purchases
Inkive is a smart reading companion that turns your physical book highlights into digital notes in seconds.
KEEP WHAT MATTERS
You underline an idea, highlight a sentence, or circle a passage worth remembering. But once the book is closed, those thoughts are easy to lose. Inkive brings everything you marked into one searchable place, ready to review, edit, export, and share.
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CAPTURE WITHOUT SLOWING DOWN
Photograph a marked-up page and let Inkive do the rest.
• Automatically detects underlines, highlights, circles, and boxes
• Extracts complete passages instead of isolated lines
• Supports continuous batch capture for multiple pages
• Imports existing photos directly from your camera roll
• Requires no manual text-area selection
MADE FOR PHYSICAL BOOKS
Inkive is optimized for printed pages, common book layouts, and the natural ways readers mark what matters. From a subtle pencil underline to a highlighted paragraph, Inkive uses advanced text recognition to save your ideas without interrupting your reading flow.
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
Your reading habits are yours alone. All OCR recognition and data processing happen directly on your device.
• Your photos are never uploaded to the cloud
• Your extracted text stays strictly on your device
• No account or registration required
• No internet connection needed for text recognition
YOUR READING NOTES, ORGANIZED
Build a personal knowledge library from your physical books.
• Organize highlights and quotes by book
• Add books manually or instantly scan an ISBN barcode
• Edit and proofread extracted passages with the original image attached
• Add your own notes and insights
• Search your entire library in seconds
EXPORT AND SHARE
Your reading notes should work wherever you do.
• Export seamlessly to Markdown, PDF, or HTML
• Copy passages into your favorite note-taking or PKM apps
• Create beautifully customized quote cards
• Share the ideas that stayed with you
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For everyone who still loves reading with a book in hand.
Privacy Policy: https://inkive.cn/privacy
Terms of Use: https://inkive.cn/terms
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The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Seller
- Xuanwei Sheng
- Size
- 172.2 MB
- Category
- Books
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 2 more
- English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Inkive Pro - Lifetime $19.99
- Inkive Pro - Yearly $12.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Jiyee Sheng