A single cookbook page
Lay the cookbook flat, take a photo with your phone, upload it. The recipe lands on a 4×6 card you can print or save.
For everyday cookbook recipes
Turn cookbook pages into printable recipe cards
Cookbook page → recipe card
Photograph a cookbook page, magazine recipe, or scanned page and Card My Recipe pulls the recipe out and lays it on a clean 4×6 card. No retyping, no rebuilding the layout — the card lands ready to print or save.
From Cookbook spreads and Magazine clippings to Scanned pages and Camera-roll photos.
Sample card
A finished 4×6 card — pulled out of the cookbook page and ready for the kitchen.
Page in, card out
A photo of a cookbook page on the left. A finished card on the right.
The card isn't a screenshot of the page. Card My Recipe reads the recipe — title, ingredients, method, notes — and lays it out as a printable artifact built for a recipe box.
Cookbook page
Photo
Card My Recipe output
Card
Built for cookbook input
Skip the retyping. Skip the cleanup.
Cookbook recipes weren't designed to fit on a card. Magazines drape ingredients around the photo. Old cookbooks bury the method in dense paragraphs. Card My Recipe handles all of it.
A recipe that spans two pages
Upload both pages. Card My Recipe reads them as one recipe and combines ingredients and method into a single card.
For longer cookbook recipes
A magazine clipping or scan
Magazine pages, newspaper clippings, and screen-shot recipes work the same way. Upload the image, get the card.
For magazines, clippings & scans
Why not a scanner app
More than OCR. The recipe arrives as a card, not a wall of text.
A scanner app gives you the page as text. A camera app gives you the page as an image. Card My Recipe knows what a recipe is — title, ingredients, method, notes — and lays it out for the kitchen.
A scanner app
OCR & scan apps
Reads the page and gives you the text. Useful for archiving — not useful in the kitchen.
- Plain text output
- You sort title vs. ingredients vs. steps
- Nothing to print or pin to the fridge
A camera roll
Just the photo
Easy to take. Hard to read at the stove. Doesn't print well, doesn't fit the recipe box.
- Awkward to read
- Glare, shadows, page curl
- No clean print
Card My Recipe
A finished card.
Reads the recipe out of the page and builds a 4×6 card you can print, save, or share.
- Title, ingredients, method, notes — all in place
- Print-ready 4×6 layout
- Saves to your library, shares with a link
Try it, then save or upgrade
See full pricing →
Free to try with a cookbook photo.
Make your first card without an account. Sign in to save a library of cookbook recipes. Upgrade to Pro for higher photo limits and the full set of card themes.
Guest No account
Upload a cookbook photo, get a card, download it as a PDF.
Free With account
Save your cookbook cards to a library you can come back to.
Pro For active cooks
More photo uploads per day, more themes, priority on new books.
Frequently asked
Common questions
Can I use a photo of a cookbook page?
Yes. Take a photo with your phone, upload it, and Card My Recipe lays the recipe out on a 4×6 card.
What if the recipe runs across two pages?
Upload both pages. Card My Recipe reads them as one recipe and combines ingredients and method into a single card.
Does it work with magazine recipe clippings?
Yes. Magazine pages, newspaper clippings, and even photos of recipes pulled up on a screen all work.
How is this different from a regular OCR app?
An OCR app gives you a wall of text. Card My Recipe identifies what's a title, what's an ingredient list, what's a method, and lays it out as a printable card.
Can I also use URLs and typed text?
Yes — see the recipe card maker for the full set of input modes including pasted URLs, photos, and copied text.
Try it with a cookbook page
Photograph a page. Get a printable card.
Upload a cookbook spread, magazine clipping, or scanned page. Card My Recipe formats the rest.