You can access the Image to Text (OCR) — Extract Text from Screenshots & Photos 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 Integrations settings in Apify Console.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

1from apify_client import ApifyClient
2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
6
7# Prepare the Actor input
8run_input = {}
9
10# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
11run = client.actor("junipr/image-to-text").call(run_input=run_input)
12
13# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
14print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
15for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
16    print(item)
17
18# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

Image to Text OCR Extractor | Apify API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Image to Text (OCR) — Extract Text from Screenshots & Photos API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

Other API clients include:

Image to Text (OCR) — Extract Text from Screenshots & Photos API in JavaScript

Image to Text (OCR) — Extract Text from Screenshots & Photos API through CLI

Image to Text (OCR) — Extract Text from Screenshots & Photos OpenAPI definition

Image to Text (OCR) — Extract Text from Screenshots & Photos API

Ocr Pdf Extractor

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Ocr

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PDF OCR Tool — Extract Text from Scanned Documents

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Extract text from scanned PDFs and images using Tesseract OCR. 100+ languages, multi-page support. Configurable DPI, page segmentation, language selection. Output as plain text or structured JSON per page.

junipr

Textify OCR

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Extract and Convert Image Text to Digital Text instantly.

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PDF OCR API - Document Extraction

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Image Text Extractor

m3web/image-text-extractor

Extract text from images using OCR (Optical Character Recognition) via direct URLs or uploaded JSON/CSV files. Works with multiple languages and automatically enriches your structured file with the text found inside images.

M3Web

PDF to Markdown Converter

web.harvester/pdf-to-markdown-converter

Convert PDFs to clean Markdown with optional OCR for scanned documents. Uses PDF.js for text extraction and Tesseract.js for optical character recognition.

Web Harvester

Facebook Photos Scraper

apify/facebook-photos-scraper

Extract data from one or multiple Facebook images. Get image ID, Facebook photo URL, image URL, OCR text, and more. Download the data in JSON, CSV, and Excel and use it in apps, spreadsheets, and reports.