Image OCR – Extract Text from Images, Screenshots & Scans
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$3.00 / 1,000 image with texts
Image OCR: extract text from image URLs, screenshots and scans in 58 languages, with line and word boxes. Pay only for images where text is found.
You can access the Image OCR – Extract Text from Images, Screenshots & Scans 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.
1from apify_client import ApifyClient2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")6
7# Prepare the Actor input8run_input = {9 "urls": [10 "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/F._Scott_Fitzgerald%2C_The_Great_Gatsby%2C_1925%2C_title_page.jpg/960px-F._Scott_Fitzgerald%2C_The_Great_Gatsby%2C_1925%2C_title_page.jpg",11 "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/A_Few_Notes_on_Cruelty_to_Animals_%28title_page%29.png/960px-A_Few_Notes_on_Cruelty_to_Animals_%28title_page%29.png",12 "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/On_the_Origin_of_Species_1859_-_Titlepage.png/960px-On_the_Origin_of_Species_1859_-_Titlepage.png",13 ],14 "urlField": "url",15 "languages": ["eng"],16 "outputLevel": "text",17 "minWordConfidence": 0,18 "layout": "auto",19 "grayscale": True,20 "enhanceContrast": False,21 "upscale": "auto",22 "straighten": False,23 "rotate": "0",24 "dedupe": True,25 "maxFileMegabytes": 15,26 "respectRobotsTxt": True,27 "requestsPerSecond": 2,28 "maxConcurrency": 3,29 "timeoutSecs": 30,30}31
32# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish33run = client.actor("far003/image-ocr-text").call(run_input=run_input)34
35# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)36print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")37for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():38 print(item)39
40# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-startThe Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Image OCR – Extract Text from Images, Screenshots & Scans API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$pip install apify-clientOther API clients include: