OCR

ocr/ocr/api4ai by API4AI
OCR+ more tasksProvider defaultAsyncSyncPDF inputImage inputAudio inputVideo inputText inputURL inputEU hosting
Price from
$3 / 1K requests
Tasks
1
OCR
Regions
Europe
Mode
sync
Input
PDF, Image
Output
text, bounding_boxes

About API4AI OCR

Optical Character Recognition or Reader (OCR) is the electronic or mechanical conversion of images of typed, handwritten or printed text into machine-encoded text. The image can be a scanned document or a photo of a license plate, a road sign or anything else that contains text (type of files allowed: jpg, jpeg, png, tiff) .

API4AI OCR is API4AI's default model for OCR available on Eden AI for OCR, from $3 / 1K requests. Call it with the same API key as every other Eden AI model by sending its model string to the Universal AI endpoint, with processing in Europe.

Learn more about OCR APIs on Eden AI

Tasks and prices

API4AI OCR is available on Eden AI for 1 tasks. Each task has its own model string and price: send that string to the Universal AI endpoint to use the model for that task.

Task
Price
Regions
Mode
Docs
Playground
OCRocr/ocr/api4ai
$3 / 1K requests
sync

Parameters

What you send and what you get back when you call API4AI OCR through Eden AI. The same fields work with every model of the same task, so you can switch model without changing your code.

Input

  • file (required): file (PDF, images). PDF or image file ID from /v3/upload or direct file URL
  • language: text. Document language code. Most providers detect the language themselves and ignore this field; providers that cannot detect it reject requests that omit it. Check

Response

  • text
  • bounding_boxes

Estimate your monthly cost

Enter your monthly volume for OCR to compare API4AI OCR with its cheapest alternatives.

Call API4AI OCR with Eden AI

Send the model string to the Universal AI endpoint. To use another model, copy its string from the table above.

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://api.edenai.run/v3/universal-ai",
    headers={"Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_EDENAI_API_KEY"},
    json={
        "model": "",
        "input": {},
    },
)
print(response.json())

Questions about API4AI OCR

On Eden AI, API4AI OCR costs $3 / 1K requests for OCR. The Tasks and prices table lists the price for each task, and you only pay for what you use.

On Eden AI, API4AI OCR is available for: OCR. Input: PDF, Image. Output: text, bounding_boxes.

Yes. API4AI OCR is processed in Europe for at least one task: see the Regions column in the Tasks and prices table.

Asynchronous: you start a job, then get the result by polling it or through a webhook. This suits long files such as audio, video or multipage documents.

Eden AI offers OCR from 7 providers, all callable with the same API key. The cheapest models are compared just below.

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