Google Lens OCR — Image to Text API
Pricing
Pay per event
Extract text from an image with the same engine that powers Google Lens. This image to text API sends your images to the Google Lens crupload endpoint, reads the text back, and returns it as clean full text plus word-level bounding boxes. No browser, no OCR model to host, no GPU.
You can access the Google Lens OCR — Image to Text API 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.
$echo '{< "image_urls": [< "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tesseract-ocr/test/main/testing/phototest.tif"< ],< "ocr_language": "en"<}' |<apify call s-r/google-lens-ocr --silent --output-datasetThe Apify CLI is the official tool that allows you to use Google Lens OCR — Image to Text API locally, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Using installation script (macOS/Linux):
$curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bashUsing installation script (Windows):
$irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iexUsing Homebrew:
$brew install apify-cliUsing npm:
$npm install -g apify-cliOther API clients include: