Extract Text from Images and Create Fill-the-Gap Activities

Are you looking to adapt paper-based materials, diagrams, or textbook snippets into interactive digital activities? With to-teach.ai’s OCR feature, you can turn any image of text into a Fill-the-Gap exercise. Whether it’s a scanned worksheet or a photograph of a document, this tool helps you preserve educational content and make it even more engaging for your students.

Why Create Fill-the-Gap Exercises from Images?

• Leverage Existing Materials
  
  Convert previously printed or written content into digital lessons without retyping.

• Interactive Learning
  
  Fill-the-gap activities inherently engage learners by prompting them to think critically about vocabulary, context, and spelling.

• Enhanced Reading Comprehension
  
  Students learn how to extract and interpret relevant content by focusing on keywords and sentence structure.

• Differentiated Instruction
  
  Quickly adjust difficulty levels for different skill sets by customizing blanks or adding hints.

• Time Saver
  
  to-teach.ai automatically extracts text from your images, streamlining lesson creation and freeing up valuable planning time.

Getting Started

1. Upload or Capture Your Image
   
   Simply upload a scanned worksheet, a photo of a page, or any image containing text.
2. Enable OCR
   
   Turn on our OCR tool to automatically extract text from the image.
3. Set Up the Fill-the-Gap
   
   Decide which words or phrases you’d like to remove and turn into blanks, and let our AI assist if needed.
4. Customize Difficulty
   
   Offer hints, multiple-choice options, or keep it strictly fill-in-the-blank, depending on your lesson goals.
5. Publish Your Activity
   
   Share with students, track progress, and provide feedback on their performance.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

1. How can I extract text from images for fill-the-gap tasks?
   
   Upload your images or scanned documents to to-teach.ai, enable OCR, and let our AI convert the content into editable text.

2. What file formats does to-teach.ai OCR support?
   
   We support common image formats such as JPEG, PNG, and even PDF uploads, making it easy to convert multiple formats.

3. Can this process work with older or lower-quality scanned documents?
   
   Yes. Our OCR is designed to handle a range of image qualities, though clearer, higher-resolution images often yield more accurate results.

4. Do I have control over which words become blanks in the fill-the-gap?
   
   Absolutely. You can manually select specific keywords or let our AI suggest which terms to remove based on learning objectives.

5. Is it safe to upload images that might include sensitive information?
   
   to-teach.ai adheres to strict data security measures. We recommend cropping or redacting personal details to ensure student privacy.