Image to Text APIs

Image to Text API

About Image to Text APIs

Convert a variety of image formats to text with Text APIs.

What is an image to text API?

An image to text application programming interface (API) is a service that allows developers to add image to text conversion functionality to their applications or website.

How does an image to text API work?

An API for converting images to text utilizes GET and POST requests and endpoints to connect to the service provider's data resources. JSON and XML are common response formats for APIs.

Images that contain text can be extracted using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology. APIs for image to text conversion use algorithms and machine learning (ML) techniques to recognize text in images.

Who is an image to text API for?

Developers that create websites or applications with image processing capability will find image to text APIs helpful.

Businesses that want to manage images in a variety of formats can also benefit from using applications or websites with image-to-text functionality. Popular image formats for text conversion include PDF, JPG, GIF, BMP, TIFF, PNG, and others.

Why is an API for photo to text conversion important?

For developers, it is important to create applications and websites with features that businesses value most. APIs for photo to text conversion helps developers accomplish this with the least amount of manual coding.

Most businesses produce and receive important documents in image formats on a regular basis. These files may come from their staff, customers, and business partners. Converting images to text creates consistency in organizing documents.

What can you expect from photo to text APIs?

Developers can look forward to building projects with the latest ML technologies for image to text processing.

Businesses can expect to assign the task of scanning images to the API. Doing so will remove the burden of having to handle image to text conversions manually. Businesses will also be able to locate their image files faster, and this is a direct benefit that increases productivity.

Are there examples of free image to text APIs?

RapidAPI's Marketplace lists several freemium photo to text APIs. "OCRLY Image to Text" by Nadkabanni has a free Basic plan with a 50-month quota limit. Overages are ten cents each.

"Any Image to Text or Words with Coordinates" by API Express is another freemium API with a free Basic plan. The per-month request limit is 50, and overages are a little over two cents each.

Best Image to Text APIs

Image to Text API SDKs

All Image to Text APIs are supported and made available in multiple developer programming languages and SDKs including:

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Objective-C
Java (Android)
C# (.NET)
cURL

Just select your preference from any API endpoints page.

All APIs

OCRLY image to text

Provided by OCRLy.biz, this image to text processor is very accurate and used by IT teams to convert images of error screenshots to text in their zendesk accounts for example.

Updated 1 month ago

Text in Images Recognition

Uses a Deep Neural Network to detect text in images and returns strings of readable text.

Updated 11 months ago

RiteKit

Hashtag suggestions, auto-hashtagging, emoji suggestions, text to image, text to GIF, company logo and more APIs for social media marketers.

Updated 11 months ago

Image to Text

Convert your photo / image to an art using text.

Updated 11 months ago

Subject classifier

This API extracts image's text and get image text classified into one of four subjects like Physics, Biology, Chemistry and Mathematics.

Updated 11 months ago

Facebook Image Text Ratio Checker

Do you want to check whether Facebook will approve your image as part of an advert? Choose an image from your PC and let us detect how much text that image contains. We will then tell you whether your image will pass Facebook's text to image ratio requirement (20% or less text). This text ratio detection algorithm can also be accessed by using SemaMediaData's Image-Text grid tool:

Updated 11 months ago

Scraper

The Scraper.io API extracts multiple types of information from the web. This API is very well suited for rich media apps or websites, since it allows easily extracting both images, text and general article information. It also can be used to render any web page as an image.

Updated 11 months ago

ProProfs Polls Maker

ProProfs Poll Software, offers instructors, educators and organizations advanced options for creating effective online polls, in a matter of minutes. With ProProfs, anyone can create different kinds of polls using multiple choices, checkboxes and essay question types. Users can create text-based polls, image-based polls and even polls with a combination of text, images and videos. A set of advanced customization features allows users to create polls, using different themes, adding comment sections, shuffling answers and even adding an expiry date to the polls. Along with this, ProProfs offers powerful security features, for blocking repeat voting and creating password protected polls. Users also get detailed reports for their polls and get visual representation of statistics in the form of pie charts.

Updated 11 months ago

Image OCR

This API method is developed for recognizing text content from images. It differs from conventional print OCR engines by using a set of sophisticated preprocessing such as text localisation, background reparation etc. It is suited for processing overlay text and some of scene text occurred within video frames and images with limited rotation and enough contrast ratio.

Updated 11 months ago