Read all text from picture, one API call :Magical

If you are searching for a solution like : where you have to get all the text written over picture into readable text (response text) then you are at right place, more-over it’s not the limit.

– One REST call, just one line code

– And you get all the text in your image in JSON response text

Yayy !!! Thats the thing developers love 😉

Steps you will follow to get the text out of your image:

1- Make a REST call with image url and token

2- Thats all !! DONE, get your result. Really.

There is a magic called scanR OCR API as a Service, Its open source, support 32 languages, provide you a token and first 100 REST calls/month free, if you want more you can buy their package that is really quite bearable as per the services.

What can you build with it?

• Apps to scan documents, bills, business cards etc.
• Scan and store all your promo-codes and paper offers.
• Organize entire business documents into text files.
• Anything else you can think of.

Let’s do it.

First you have to register on scanR, verify your email and come to the dashboard. There you would see 4 informations.

Token is also there, that is most important here.

You can specify your language in parameter, although defualt is English.

You can use OCR in three ways:

1- Upload File: Use this option if you want to upload a file from your local machine.

2- Existing file URL: Use this option if your file is publicly accessed over the web.

3- PDF: In case you upload a pdf or send it’s url, and the pdf has more than one page thee response will be: {"text": ["text in first page", "text in second page"] }

Lets start using them one by one with example

Upload File

HTTP Request

POST : https://api.scanr.xyz/ocr?token=YOUR_TOKEN

Okay Open your advanced rest client (you can use others as well) in chrome browser, and fill the inputs as per this image:

Response:

Similar way you can use other two options as well like for

2- Existing file URL, put the image URL(web) instead of adding image.

You can make a CURL request as well from command line.

curl --data "url=https://i.imgur.com/fYY6P4Y.png" "https://api.scanr.xyz/ocr?token=YOUR_TOKEN&lang=eng"

How magical right !!! Have a look on their documentation.

I hope this post saved your hours.