Image to Text API

The Image to Text API detects and extracts text from images using state-of-the-art optical character recognition (OCR) algorithms. It can detect texts of different sizes, fonts, and even handwriting.

/v1/imagetotext POST

https://api.api-ninjas.com/v1/imagetotext

Given an input image, return all detected texts and their bounding boxes. For free tier users, the image size is limited to 500KB (Upgrade).

Files

  • image  required

    Image file to extract text from. Must be either JPEG or PNG format.

Headers

  • X-Api-Key  required

    API Key associated with your account.

Sample Request Live Demo!

https://api.api-ninjas.com/v1/imagetotext

Headers

X-Api-KeyLog in or sign up to get your API Key

Sample Response

JSON
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Code Examples

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 import requests api_url = 'https://api.api-ninjas.com/v1/imagetotext' image_file_descriptor = open('YOUR_IMAGE.jpeg', 'rb') files = {'image': image_file_descriptor} r = requests.post(api_url, files=files, headers={'X-Api-Key': 'YOUR_API_KEY'}) print(r.json())

If your programming language is not listed in the Code Example above, you can still make API calls by using a HTTP request library written in your programming language and following the above documentation.