OCR.Space
OCR text extraction from images and PDFs with a free tier
- Authentication
- API Key
- HTTPS
- Yes
- CORS
- Unknown
- Category
- Documents & Productivity
- Documentation / URL
- https://ocr.space/ocrapi
Overview
OCR.Space provides OCR extraction — key-based.
⚠️ Status (verified 2026-08): a guessed path returned HTTP 404
Cannot GET /parse/image(structured) — the API is alive; route paths differ. Check the docs for valid routes.
What it provides
curl "https://api.ocr.space/parse/image?apikey=YOUR_KEY&url=https://example.com/file.png"Notes
- OCR from images/PDFs.
- Route paths per the docs.
FAQ
Is OCR.Space free? Free tier with limits; more is paid.
Why 404? Our 2026-08 guess path was wrong (verified) — check the docs.
What does it do? OCR extraction.
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