What it does: The OCR service analyzes pictures and recognizes text in printed documents and handwritten manuscripts.
Output: It detects words in an image or PDF and returns results as JSON.
Language coverage: The service supports hundreds of modern and ancient languages, including Latin, Cyrillic, Japanese, Chinese, and Arabic.
Recognition modes: It can find separate words or extract all text in an image.
Multiple languages: The OCR can automatically recognize multiple languages within one image.
Cloud service: API4AI describes OCR as a cloud-based service with real-time performance.
Integration: The OCR endpoint accepts HTTP POST requests and uses an API key for authentication.
Code examples: API4AI links to OCR code examples for various programming languages on GitLab and a JSFiddle sample.
Use cases: The maker names digitizing old publications, analyzing election and poll forms, and scanning documents as use cases.
Demo limit: The webpage demo accepts JPG or PNG images smaller than 16 MB.
Billing: API4AI’s developer portal uses prepaid pay-as-you-go billing, while its RapidAPI listing uses a subscription model and offers a free plan.
Privacy: API4AI’s terms state that submitted files are discarded after processing and customer data is not used to train AI models.
Support and customization: The OCR page offers tailored customization through an initial meeting and proposal, and lists [email protected] as a contact.
Price from: Free

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