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.
1import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';2
3// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token4// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token5const client = new ApifyClient({6 token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',7});8
9// Prepare Actor input10const input = {11 "image_urls": [12 "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tesseract-ocr/test/main/testing/phototest.tif"13 ],14 "ocr_language": "en"15};16
17// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish18const run = await client.actor("s-r/google-lens-ocr").call(input);19
20// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)21console.log('Results from dataset');22console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);23const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();24items.forEach((item) => {25 console.dir(item);26});27
28// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docsThe Apify API client for JavaScript is the official library that allows you to use Google Lens OCR — Image to Text API API in JavaScript or TypeScript, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$npm install apify-clientOther API clients include: