Image and PDF OCR to Text
Pricing
from $3.00 / 1,000 results
Reads the text in images and PDF pages from public URLs with OCR. Returns the text, a confidence score and every line with its position. Pay per image or PDF page read. Failed files are listed, not charged.
sourceUrl
Required
The address from your input.
finalUrl
Optional
The address the file was finally downloaded from, after any redirects.
fileType
Required
The file type read from the file itself: application/pdf, image/png, image/jpeg, image/gif, image/bmp, image/tiff or image/webp.
pageNumber
Optional
The PDF page, from 1. Empty for an image.
pageCount
Required
Pages in the PDF, or 1 for an image.
text
Required
All the text read, one line of text per line, top to bottom.
confidence
Optional
How sure the OCR is of the text, from 0 to 1: the average line score, weighted by line length. Empty when no text was found.
textFound
Required
False when the image or page had no readable text.
lineCount
Required
How many lines of text were found.
characterCount
Required
Characters in text, line breaks included.
lines
Required
Every line found: its text, its confidence from 0 to 1, and its box as four [x, y] corners in pixels of the image that was read.
imageWidth
Required
Width in pixels of the image that was read. Large images are scaled down to 4,000 pixels on the longest side; PDF pages are drawn at up to 144 dpi and 3,000 pixels.
imageHeight
Required
Height in pixels of the image that was read.
ocrMs
Required
Milliseconds the OCR took for this image or page.
note
Optional
Set when only the first frame of an animated or multi-page image was read.
processedAt
Required
When the text was read, in UTC.
