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Extract text from a list of image links

The text of four public sample images given by link: a printed page of poetry, a page of test text, a short caption and an escaped-characters sample. One row per image with the clean text, the confidence, the word count and the real size of the file. Replace the links with your own images.

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Image to Text OCR API: Extract Text from Images in Bulk
Image to Text OCR API: Extract Text from Images in Bulkrowcraft/image-ocr-text-extractor
Address of the image file that was read
The text of the image, one line of the picture per line; spaces cleaned, e-mails and phone numbers masked, at most 100,000 characters (null when no text was found)
Mean confidence of the OCR engine, 0 to 100 (null when the engine found nothing at all)
Number of words in the text
+6 fields
Text
Number
Boolean
List
Object

Input

Image or page URLs:https://tesseract.projectnaptha.com/img/eng_bw.png+3
Languages in the images:eng

Output fields

Address of the image file that was read
The text of the image, one line of the picture per line; spaces cleaned, e-mails and phone numbers masked, at most 100,000 characters (null when no text was found)
Mean confidence of the OCR engine, 0 to 100 (null when the engine found nothing at all)
Number of words in the text
True when text was found (the row is charged); false when the image holds no readable text (the row is free)
Languages the engine was asked to read, as text
Width of the image in pixels, read from the file
Height of the image in pixels, read from the file
Image format read from the file: png, jpeg, gif, webp, bmp or tiff
Page the image was found on (null for direct image links)

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Monitor the progress in real time. You will be notified as soon as your dataset is complete and ready for review. Each result includes data such as address of the image file that was read, the text of the image, one line of the picture per line; spaces cleaned, e-mails and phone numbers masked, at most 100,000 characters (null when no text was found), mean confidence of the ocr engine, 0 to 100 (null when the engine found nothing at all), and more.

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