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Extract Text from Scanned Images and Letters

Turn scanned pages, typewritten letters and photos of documents into plain text. Paste image URLs and get the extracted text for each image, with automatic rotation and clean-up for old or low-contrast scans. Switch the language (100+ supported) or run it on hundreds of images at once. Pay only per image processed.

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Image to Text OCR – Bulk Text Extraction, 100+ Languages
Image to Text OCR – Bulk Text Extraction, 100+ Languagesgazidev/image-ocr
Image
Status
Text
Confidence (0-100)
+5 fields
Text
Number
Boolean
List
Object

Input

Image URLs(required):https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/55/A_text-book_of_agricultural_entomology_%28Page_192%29_BHL9798403.jpg+1
Languages:eng
Output detail:text
Include hOCR:false
Page layout:auto
Auto-rotate (90° / 180° / 270°):true
Preprocessing:auto
Adaptive scaling:true
Minimum word confidence (0–100):0
Preserve spaces between words:false
Max pages per image:10
OCR every frame of animated GIF / WebP / PNG:false
Max image size (MB):25
Download timeout (seconds):45
OCR timeout per page (seconds):180
Parallel OCR workers:0

Output fields

Image
Status
Text
Confidence (0-100)
Words
Lines
Languages
Pages
Error

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