Why won't my back camera focus on any text?

I have a iPhone 5s with iOS 8. It won't let me focus on a sheet of paper with text or anything. I tap the screen lots but it doesn't help, please help me.

Most likely you are too close. Hold the camera further away from the paper. It needs some distance from the camera to the subject in order for it to focus.

Go back a bit further. See in the online manual what the closest focus distance can be.
Get some light shining down on the paper from the above and to one side too.

You have the camera too close to the page. Move it back a foot or so.

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