Image to Text OCR
Pricing
from $1.60 / 1,000 images
Extract text from images by URL or upload: receipts, screenshots, scans and photos of documents. PNG, JPEG, WebP, TIFF, BMP, GIF. Confidence scores and optional word positions. Images with no text are free.
You can access the Image to Text OCR 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 = { "files": [9 "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdoc/main/images/eurotext.png",10 "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tesseract-ocr/test/main/testing/phototest.tif",11 ] }12
13# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish14run = client.actor("ridgeline_apps/image-to-text-ocr").call(run_input=run_input)15
16# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)17print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")18for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():19 print(item)20
21# 📚 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 to Text OCR API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$pip install apify-clientOther API clients include: