Image OCR Extractor
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Image OCR Extractor
Extract text from images (PNG, JPG, WebP, TIFF) using Tesseract OCR. Batch up to 50 images, multi-language, confidence scores.
Image OCR Extractor
Pricing
Pay per usage
Extract text from images (PNG, JPG, WebP, TIFF) using Tesseract OCR. Batch up to 50 images, multi-language, confidence scores.
You can access the Image OCR Extractor 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.
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