OCR

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is the process of text recognition, used to extract text from images, serving as an easier alternative to manual data entry.

Perform OCR

GET https://infer.roboflow.com/doctr/ocr

Query Parameters

NameTypeDescription

api_key*

String

Request Body

NameTypeDescription

image*

Object

A JSON object containing image information and data

image.type*

String

One of the following: "url" or "base64"

image.value*

String

Either a URL or a base64 encoded image

To learn about how to deploy an OCR solution locally on your device using Python, check out this blog post.

You can also deploy an OCR solution on your device using our open-source inference server. Learn more about deploying DocTR (OCR) locally here.

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