
OCR
About IONOS 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) .
IONOS OCR is IONOS's default model for OCR available on Eden AI for OCR, from $0.33 / 1M tokens. 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.
Tasks and prices
IONOS 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.
Parameters
What you send and what you get back when you call IONOS 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 IONOS OCR with its cheapest alternatives.
Call IONOS 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())
curl https://api.edenai.run/v3/universal-ai \
-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_EDENAI_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"model": "", "input": {}}'
const response = await fetch("https://api.edenai.run/v3/universal-ai", {
method: "POST",
headers: {
Authorization: "Bearer YOUR_EDENAI_API_KEY",
"Content-Type": "application/json",
},
body: JSON.stringify({
model: "",
input: {},
}),
});
console.log(await response.json());
"file": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
Questions about IONOS OCR
On Eden AI, IONOS OCR costs $0.33 / 1M tokens for OCR. The Tasks and prices table lists the price for each task, and you only pay for what you use.
On Eden AI, IONOS OCR is available for: OCR. Input: PDF, Image. Output: text, bounding_boxes.
Yes. IONOS 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.
Alternatives for OCR
Other OCR models you can call with the same key, cheapest first.
More from IONOS
Other IONOS models on Eden AI, for every task.

