Answers.Body: <p>This website has a chess ebook reader available for scanning chess diagrams from PDF:
  <a href="https://chessvision.ai/" rel="noreferrer">https://chessvision.ai/</a></p>
  
  <p>Additionally they also have browser extensions for Chrome and Firefox which is really handy in scanning images of positions on any web page.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: I really like the extension, very easy to use and so far accurate.
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Answers.Text: ebook feature of chess vision is cool. But, their board editor is not working sometimes, probably because they are using lichess behind the scene (and lichess suspects the tool as a bot, I guess).
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Answers.Body: <p>I wrote a program that can recognize positions from books and magazines and give you the FEN. Here is the web interface for 
  <a href="https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~abhishek/putz/" rel="noreferrer">Chessputzer</a>  </p>
  
  <p>You can upload the image or paste directly from the clipboard. </p>
  
  <p><strong>Note</strong>: it is designed for the the most common fonts used in print. It won't work for images from Chessbase etc. For that, use Fenbot. </p>
  
  <p>My aim was to make it good enough to read blurry images from old chess books so it should be pretty tolerant of artifacts and such.</p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fimetech.chessfimee" rel="noreferrer">Chessfimee</a> can perfectly serve you. </p>
  
  <p>It scans and analyses chessboards with chess diagrams, puzzles. All you need is to use the camera to take a photo of a chess diagram from books, papers, even LCD screens (PDFs, other sources). Also you can share the chess position (FEN) with other chess applications.</p>
  
  <p>An iOS version will be coming soon.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: Name of the tool changed to chessify (worth mentioning)
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Answers.Body: <p>Try the following. You upload the image, it scans and generates FEN. I don't know if it will read a pdf but converting a pdf to a common graphic format is not hard.</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://www.chessgrabber.nicolaas.net/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Chess Grabber</a></p>
  
  <p>I tried it using the diagram from <a href="https://chess.stackexchange.com/questions/14583/reasoning-for-rook-sacrifice">this posting</a>. It generated its determination of the diagram and this FEN:</p>
  
  <p><code>rn1qk1nr/Pp4P1/2p2P2/4P2p/1bp5/2NbPPP1/PP2N1BP/B1BQ1RK1 w kq - 0 1</code></p>
  
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Answers.Text: I tried it and it took black pawns on dark squares to be white pawns. So it is not perfect. One has to be careful.
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Answers.Text: Chess Grabber seems to be buggy.
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Answers.Text: Chess Grabber doesn't work if Adobe Flash is blocked ... I think Flash is basically deprecated now.  Maybe archive.org can support it?
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Answers.Body: <p>CheSScan app available on Play/App Store does what you are looking for.</p>
  <p>chesscan.com</p>
  <p>Disclaimer: I am the developer of the app.</p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>Search &quot;Chess diagram fonts&quot;. There is a LOT of stuff out there</p>
  
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Answers.Text: This is the right way to do it, I think. Fewer mishaps.
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Answers.Body: <p>There's also ChessOCR, which I found useless, but as we always say, your mileage may vary.</p>
  <p><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kgroth.chessocr&amp;hl=en_US" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kgroth.chessocr&amp;hl=en_US</a></p>
  
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Body: <p>I am planning to create a chess puzzle book for beginners. Diagrams need to be published in the book. Right now I have all the materials in PDF. But I need a software to create diagrams for a particular chess position. Is there any way to scan chess diagrams from a PDF?</p>
  
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Comments.Text: What format should the diagrams be in? Postscript or something else?
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Tags: <software><fen><diagram>
Title: How can I scan a chessboard and obtain its FEN?
ThreadText: # How can I scan a chessboard and obtain its FEN?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2016-06-05)
  
  I am planning to create a chess puzzle book for beginners. Diagrams need to be published in the book. Right now I have all the materials in PDF. But I need a software to create diagrams for a particular chess position. Is there any way to scan chess diagrams from a PDF?
  
  **Tags:** software, fen, diagram
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: What format should the diagrams be in? Postscript or something else?  
  
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  ## 7 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_2 on 2020-05-26. Score: 9
  
  This website has a chess ebook reader available for scanning chess diagrams from PDF:
  <https://chessvision.ai/>
  
  Additionally they also have browser extensions for Chrome and Firefox which is really handy in scanning images of positions on any web page.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_3**: I really like the extension, very easy to use and so far accurate.  
  > **username_4**: ebook feature of chess vision is cool. But, their board editor is not working sometimes, probably because they are using lichess behind the scene (and lichess suspects the tool as a bot, I guess).  
  
  ---
  
  ### Answer by username_5 on 2017-11-15. Score: 7
  
  I wrote a program that can recognize positions from books and magazines and give you the FEN. Here is the web interface for
  [Chessputzer](https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~abhishek/putz/)
  
  You can upload the image or paste directly from the clipboard.
  
  **Note**: it is designed for the the most common fonts used in print. It won't work for images from Chessbase etc. For that, use Fenbot.
  
  My aim was to make it good enough to read blurry images from old chess books so it should be pretty tolerant of artifacts and such.
  
  
  ---
  
  ### Answer by username_6 on 2016-08-22. Score: 6
  
  [Chessfimee](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fimetech.chessfimee) can perfectly serve you.
  
  It scans and analyses chessboards with chess diagrams, puzzles. All you need is to use the camera to take a photo of a chess diagram from books, papers, even LCD screens (PDFs, other sources). Also you can share the chess position (FEN) with other chess applications.
  
  An iOS version will be coming soon.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_4**: Name of the tool changed to chessify (worth mentioning)  
  
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  ### Answer by username_7 on 2016-06-05. Score: 4
  
  Try the following. You upload the image, it scans and generates FEN. I don't know if it will read a pdf but converting a pdf to a common graphic format is not hard.
  
  [Chess Grabber](http://www.chessgrabber.nicolaas.net/)
  
  I tried it using the diagram from [this posting](https://chess.stackexchange.com/questions/14583/reasoning-for-rook-sacrifice). It generated its determination of the diagram and this FEN:
  
  `rn1qk1nr/Pp4P1/2p2P2/4P2p/1bp5/2NbPPP1/PP2N1BP/B1BQ1RK1 w kq - 0 1`
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_8**: I tried it and it took black pawns on dark squares to be white pawns. So it is not perfect. One has to be careful.  
  > **username_9**: Chess Grabber seems to be buggy.  
  > **username_10**: Chess Grabber doesn't work if Adobe Flash is blocked ... I think Flash is basically deprecated now.  Maybe archive.org can support it?  
  
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  ### Answer by username_11 on 2020-09-06. Score: 1
  
  CheSScan app available on Play/App Store does what you are looking for.
  
  chesscan.com
  
  Disclaimer: I am the developer of the app.
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_12 on 2020-09-06. Score: 0
  
  Search "Chess diagram fonts". There is a LOT of stuff out there
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_13**: This is the right way to do it, I think. Fewer mishaps.  
  
  ---
  
  ### Answer by username_13 on 2020-09-07. Score: 0
  
  There's also ChessOCR, which I found useless, but as we always say, your mileage may vary.
  
  <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kgroth.chessocr&hl=en_US>
  
  
  ---
  
  