How it works

1. Open the quiz builder and pick the “Upload File” tab.
2. Upload your image (JPG, PNG, or HEIC). Multiple images supported in one quiz.
3. SimpleQuizMaker OCRs the image — extraction takes 3–8 seconds per page-equivalent.
4. Configure difficulty, question count, and types.
5. Generate. Review every question. Edit or regenerate weak items.
6. Share the link.

When image-to-quiz is the right tool

· Your source is on paper, not in a file. Textbook pages, library reference books, handwritten lecture notes.
· Your PDF is a scan without OCR. Most older textbook scans qualify. Snap the page; we OCR it.
· Whiteboard or chalkboard photos. Take a photo at the end of a lecture or study session; quiz yourself later that day.
· Slides projected on screen. Photograph the slides; generate a comprehension quiz before exams.
· Diagrams with captions. The OCR pulls the caption and labels; the AI generates questions around the diagram's content (described in stems, not visually rendered).

Image quality tips

OCR accuracy scales with image quality. For best results:

· Good lighting. Daylight or a desk lamp. Avoid shadows on the page.
· Page flat against a contrasting surface. Dark wood under a white page works well.
· Camera directly above. Angled photos produce trapezoidal distortion that OCR handles less well.
· Focus locked before shooting. Tap-to-focus on phone cameras prevents blurry text.
· Higher resolution is better. Don't compress or downsample before uploading.
· Handwriting works. Modern OCR handles legible handwriting; messy handwriting may need a manual transcript.

What works well

· Textbook pages: printed text, clear layout. Excellent.
· Notebook pages with legible handwriting: very good.
· Whiteboards / chalkboards: good if lighting is clean. Reflections are the main risk.
· Slide screenshots: excellent.
· Recipe pages: good for cooking-class assessments.
· Multiple languages: OCR handles ~50 languages. Specify the language in the topic field if not English.

What does NOT work well

· Very stylised fonts. Display fonts on textbook covers, comic-book speech bubbles.
· Pure-diagram pages with no text. The OCR returns nothing; the AI has nothing to work with.
· Pages with heavy mathematical notation. Equations render unreliably in OCR. For math, type the equation in plain language or LaTeX in the topic field.
· Very low resolution images (under ~600 dpi at the page level). Recapture if you can.
· Mixed-orientation pages (portrait + landscape in one image). Crop and upload separately.

Use cases

Students — quiz from textbook photos

The most common student workflow: snap a chapter at the library before the textbook goes back to the reserve shelf; generate a self-quiz that evening. See SimpleQuizMaker for students.

Teachers — capture handwritten lesson plans

Have a lesson plan you sketched on paper? Photograph it; generate a quiz that aligns with the planned learning objectives without re-typing.

Trainers — quiz from physical SOPs

Older safety SOPs often exist only as laminated wall posters. Photograph them; generate a compliance quiz. Beats retyping.

Sunday school + Bible study leaders

Photograph the week's memory verse or study passage from a print Bible; generate review questions for the group. See Bible quiz generator.

Privacy & security

Image content is processed by AI to extract text and generate questions, then discarded. We do not store uploaded images in any user-accessible form. The generated quiz lives in your account. Self-hosted on Hetzner servers in Germany — no third-party data warehouses.

Pricing

Free tier: 5 image-to-quiz generations per month, up to 10 questions per quiz. Student plan ($4.99/mo): unlimited generations, up to 30 questions per quiz. Teacher plan ($19.99/mo): unlimited generations, up to 50 questions, full analytics, student tracking. See pricing.

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