Text Recognition

Advanced solution for Optical Character Recognition (OCR) with industry-leading accuracy

About

This solution provides picture analysis and text recognition of both - printed documents and handwritten manuscripts

Text recognition

The OCR algorithm detects words in an image or PDF and returns the results as JSON output for efficient communication.

Hundreds of supported languages

This solution supports a wide range of both modern and ancient languages, from Latin and Cyrillic scripts to Japanese, Chinese, Arabic, and many more.

Two recognition modes

The algorithm can work in two modes: find separate words or extract the whole text present in a picture.

Demo

Try this solution out right now! Select one of the pictures below or upload your own image.

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Illustration of OCR algorithm - picture 1

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Can't wait to try the API from your dev env?

  Just copy&paste this snippet code into your command line terminal to try the API at your computer

curl -X "POST" \
  "https://demo.api4ai.cloud/ocr/v1/results" \
  -F "url=https://storage.googleapis.com/api4ai-static/samples/ocr-1.png"

Or try web sample right in JSFiddle code playground

Open in JSFiddle

Explore more code examples for various programming languages:

https://gitlab.com/api4ai/examples/ocr

Optical Character Recognition API - source code examples at API4AI public repository

Pricing

Text Recognition (OCR) API is available by subscription model at RapidAPI platform.

Benefits

Text Recognition from api4ai is born from the best machine learning practices, thorough testing and mature integration processes.

Off-the-shelf
solution

The service has been expertly developed, rigorously tested, and is now fully operational and ready for use.

Cloud
service

This is a completely cloud-based solution that provides real-time performance, industry-leading uptime and reliability.

Large-scale
coverage

This solution covers a huge number of different languages.

Flexibility

Our OCR technology can automatically recognize multiple languages within one image.

Use cases

Streamline your workflow by swiftly converting text in images and PDFs into a digital format ready for further processing. Our solution provides automated, precise text recognition in a wide array of languages, tailored to meet your diverse needs. Transform your content seamlessly with our OCR API.

Old publications digitalization
Render old printed publications and documents into a digital format to be able to easily analyze, edit, and distribute them for further usage.

Fast analysis of elections and polls
Use this text recognition solution for automated independent reading of election or poll forms and quick collection of the results.

Quick document scanning
Apply this text recognition algorithm in your document flow system for fast scanning and analysis of any physical documents or forms that your system might use.

Customization

If our standard OCR API doesn't perfectly match your needs, api4ai offers tailored customizations.

We start by understanding your specific requirements in an initial meeting and then create a proposal just for you.

Our pricing is straightforward and fair, typically including a one-time setup fee based on the complexity of your custom requirements and a personalized OCR API subscription cost.