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

Name	Type	Description
api_key*	String	A Roboflow API Key

Request Body

Name	Type	Description
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

200: OK

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.