Image to quiz: turn a photo or picture into a quiz
Upload a photo of your notes and QuerySpark writes quizzes from what is actually in it, so you can quiz yourself on exactly what your course covers. PNG, JPG, WEBP, TIFF and more.
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Quick answer
How do you turn a photo of your notes into quizzes?
Upload the image (a photo of your notes, a screenshot, or a picture of a textbook page) as PNG, JPG, WEBP, TIFF or similar. QuerySpark reads the text with OCR, including neat handwriting, then writes multiple choice, true or false and short-answer questions from it, each with an explanation. It takes about a minute. Files can be up to 5 MB on the free plan, and iPhone HEIC photos are not supported. New accounts get a 3-day Pro trial with no credit card.
- Photos, screenshots and scans: PNG, JPG, WEBP, TIFF
- Reads print and neat handwriting
- Questions in about a minute, all explained
- HEIC is not supported: use JPG or a screenshot
How it works
How to turn a photo of your notes into quizzes
- 01
Take the photo straight on
Hold the phone flat above the page so the text fills the frame, in good light with no shadow from your hand. One page per photo.
- 02
Upload the image and choose quiz
Pick quiz as the output and set the level. The text is read first, then the questions are written from what was on the page.
- 03
Spot-check the source quotes
Most questions show the passage they were written from. If a quoted passage has garbled words, the photo was misread there; retake it or type that part up.
- 04
Quiz yourself and revisit misses
Answer one question at a time with instant feedback. Questions you keep missing come back in your review queue.
Example
Quiz from Handwritten notes
A sample of what you get from a photo of your notes on chemistry. Yours is written from your own file.
Question 1 · Multiple choice
What is the pH of a solution with [H+] = 1 × 10⁻³ mol/L?
- 3
- -3
- 11
- 7
pH = -log[H+] = -log(10⁻³) = 3.
Question 2 · Multiple choice
Which describes a Brønsted–Lowry base?
- Proton donor
- Proton acceptor
- Electron-pair acceptor
- Hydroxide donor only
Brønsted–Lowry acids donate H+; bases accept it.
What your quizzes include
- Multiple choice, true or false and short-answer questions written from your material
- An explanation for every answer, plus the passage it came from
- Distractors that are plausible, not obviously wrong
- Correct answers spread across A to D, so you cannot game the pattern
How you study them
Answer one question at a time with instant feedback. Wrong answers come back later in the session, and the ones you keep missing move into your review queue.
Best for: checking you understood a chapter, quick revision before class, finding weak spots early.
How we read photos of handwritten notes
Photos go through Google Document AI OCR, which reads print and most neat handwriting. Snap a page of your notebook or a textbook page and study it a minute later.
Get the best results
- One page per photo, filling the frame.
- Include diagrams' labels; they make good questions.
Turning a picture of handwritten notes into a quiz
Neat handwriting is read well: block capitals, tidy print and clear joined-up writing all come through. What causes trouble is the stuff around the words. Crossed-out lines, arrows linking ideas across the page, words squeezed into margins and very small writing can be skipped or misread, and very messy handwriting can lose whole words.
If your notes are a mix, the fastest fix is to type up only the parts that matter most, such as definitions and formulas, and photograph the rest. Typed and photographed material both become quiz questions the same way.
Can ChatGPT make a quiz from a picture?
Yes. ChatGPT can read an uploaded photo and write quiz questions about it in the chat, and for a one-off check it works fine. It is also the better choice if you want to talk through a diagram, because it can describe images, while QuerySpark only reads the text in them.
QuerySpark is built for what comes next: a saved quiz with explanations, the source passage behind most questions, a review queue for the ones you miss, and export to PDF, Word, CSV or your LMS. If you photograph your notes every week, that is where it saves time.
Screenshots, textbook pages and slides
Screenshots are the easiest images to read, because the text is sharp and perfectly flat. A screenshot of an e-textbook page, a lecture slide or a revision website turns into a quiz with almost no OCR errors.
For printed textbook pages, photograph the explanatory text and the key-term boxes rather than the end-of-chapter questions. A quiz written from questions ends up asking about the questions, not the material.
Several pages of notes? Scan them into one PDF
If you have a whole topic across many pages, scan them into a single PDF instead of uploading one photo at a time. The iPhone Notes and Files apps both have a document scanner, and the Google Drive app has a Scan button on Android. Scanned PDFs are read with the same OCR, up to 120 pages per upload.
PDF pages count toward your monthly PDF page allowance (10 pages on the free plan, 500 on Student).
Things that trip people up with photos of handwritten notes
Shadows and steep angles cost accuracy. Shoot flat, in good light.
iPhone HEIC photos are not supported. Set the camera to Most Compatible, or screenshot the photo.
Very messy handwriting may lose words; type up the key definitions if that happens.
Questions about photo to quiz
QuerySpark is free to start: the 3-day Pro trial with no credit card, then 1 study session and 20 questions a month on the free plan. Image uploads need an account; the no-signup generator only takes pasted text.
Only if it is a JPG. iPhones save HEIC by default, which is not supported. Set Camera, Formats to Most Compatible, or take a screenshot of the photo, which saves as PNG.
It reads the text in them, such as labels, axis titles and captions, but not the drawing itself. A labeled diagram gives questions about its labels; an unlabeled graph gives very little.
Simple printed equations usually come through. Handwritten fractions, exponents and special symbols often lose their layout, so type key formulas if the quiz depends on them.
It depends on how much is on the page. A dense page of notes gives a short quiz; a single diagram with a few labels gives only a few questions. We do not pad a small page with filler.
Yes. Uploads are private by default, never used to train models, and you can delete them at any time.
Make flashcards from the picture instead of a quiz, export the deck as CSV and import it into Quizlet. There is no direct Quizlet export.
Yes, most neat handwriting. Print is read near perfectly; rushed handwriting may lose the odd word.
Yes. Upload each page and generate a set from them together.
Every question is validated before you see it, so the answer is always one of the options, and most show the quote from your material they were written from. You can edit any question.
Yes, to start. New accounts get a 3-day Pro trial with no credit card. After the trial the free plan includes 1 study session, 20 questions and 10 PDF pages a month, and you keep everything you made. You can also try the question generator on pasted text without an account, 3 times a day.
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