The inhomogeneity of scattering medium distorts the propagation of the waves, which has been detrimental to the performance of optical imaging. The operating time of the traditional solutions will be very long as the scanning is necessary during the imaging. A recovery solution based on spatial optical transmission matrix has been proposed. With the acquiring of the spatial optical transmission matrix, the incident object wave will be recovered directly from the distorted transmitted wave, in this way, only a single shot is needed during the imaging. The effectiveness of this method has been proved by the simulation and experiment, the principle is simpler and the algorithm is more efficient, which are beneficial to the imaging through the scattering medium. © 2017 SPIE-OSA.