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.

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    "image_urls": ["https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tesseract-ocr/test/main/testing/phototest.tif"],
10    "ocr_language": "en",
11}
12
13# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
14run = client.actor("s-r/google-lens-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-start

Google Lens OCR — Image to Text API API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Google Lens OCR — Image to Text API API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

Other API clients include:

Google Lens OCR — Image to Text API API in JavaScript

Google Lens OCR — Image to Text API API through CLI

Google Lens OCR — Image to Text API OpenAPI definition

Google Lens OCR — Image to Text API API

Google Lens OCR API: Batch Image to Text

getascraper/google-lens-ocr

Google Lens OCR API for image URLs, Base64, and Apify storage records. Get extracted text, language, dimensions, line geometry, translation, stable input IDs, and explicit per-image errors for batch OCR workflows.

GetAScraper

Google Lens OCR API - Image to Text & Coordinates

thodor/google-lens-ocr

Google Lens OCR API. Extract text from images with word, line and paragraph bounding boxes in pixels, plus object detection and translation.

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Google Lens OCR API — Image to Text, Batch OCR & PDF

crawloop/google-lens-ocr-api

OCR API powered by Google Lens: image to text, batch OCR up to 50 URLs, PDF pages, base64 input, word/line bounding boxes, translation. Standby REST API or dataset batch mode. Pay per successful OCR. Receipt & document scanning.

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Google Lens Search API - Reverse Image Search & OCR

zen-studio/google-lens-visual-search

Reverse image search via Google Lens. Returns visual matches, AI descriptions, related links, related searches, and OCR text with bounding boxes. Four modes from fast OCR-only to full all-tabs extraction.

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Google Lens Reverse Image Search API

s-r/google-lens

Google Lens OCR API - Image to Text Under 500ms REST API

zen-studio/google-lens-ocr

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Zen Studio

440

Google Lens Search: Reverse Image Finder & OCR

getascraper/google-lens-visual-search

Reverse image search via Google Lens. Get visual matches, exact duplicates, AI descriptions, related links, and parallel OCR text with bounding boxes. Bypasses blocks natively using residential proxies.

GetAScraper

Google Lens Scraper

prodiger/google-lens-scraper

Analyze images via Google Lens — OCR, translate-OCR, AI Mode, exact match, visual match, product search, homework help, and general search. No API key required.

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Google Lens Scraper

gio21/google-lens-scraper

Reverse image search via Google Lens. Submit any image URL, get visual matches, exact matches, OCR text, and AI descriptions in a single run. Multi-tab support. $0.005 per image — half the price of alternatives.