Image to Text OCR — photos, scans & screenshots to text
Pricing
$1.50 / 1,000 image ocr'ds
Extract text from images with Tesseract inside the Actor — no API key. Plain text plus per-line bounding boxes and confidence, auto script detection and rotation fix, Arabic/Latin/Cyrillic and more. Only images that deliver text are billed.
You can access the Image to Text OCR — photos, scans & screenshots to text programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.
$echo '{< "image_urls": [< "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdoc/main/images/eurotext.png"< ]<}' |<apify call amanatools/image-to-text-ocr --silent --output-datasetThe Apify CLI is the official tool that allows you to use Image to Text OCR — photos, scans & screenshots to text locally, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Using installation script (macOS/Linux):
$curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bashUsing installation script (Windows):
$irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iexUsing Homebrew:
$brew install apify-cliUsing npm:
$npm install -g apify-cliOther API clients include: