Supported file formats

Images

• JPEG
• PNG
• TIFF
• BMP

Batch OCR

• Multi-page PDF
• ZIP
• Folder

Recognition results

• Text
• PDF
• Microsoft Word
• Microsoft Excel
• RTF
• JSON
• XML

Advanced Python OCR API Features

• Photo OCR - Extract text from smartphone photos with scan-level accuracy.
• Searchable PDF - Convert any scan into a fully searchable and indexable document.
• URL recognition - Recognize an image from URL without downloading it locally.
• Bulk recognition - Read all images from multi-page documents, folders and archives.
• Any font and style - Identify and recognize text in all popular typefaces and styles.
• Fine-tune recognition - Adjust every OCR parameter for best recognition results.
• Spell checker - Improve results by automatically correcting misspelled words.
• Find text in images - Search for text or regular expression within a set of images.
• Compare image texts - Compare texts on two images, regardless of the case and layout.
• Limit recognition scope - Limit the set of characters the OCR engine will look for.
• Detect image defects - Automatically find potentially problematic areas of image.
• Recognize areas - Find and read only specific areas of an image, not all text.
• 140+ Recognition Languages - Optimize recognition by letting the library detect language or define it for improved performance.
  • Extended Latin alphabet: English, Spanish, French, Indonesian, Portuguese, German, Vietnamese, Turkish, Italian, Polish, and 80+ more.
  • Cyrillic alphabet: Russian, Ukrainian, Kazakh, Serbian, Belarusan, Bulgarian.
  • Arabic, Persian, Urdu.
  • Chinese and Devanagari script, including Hindi, Marathi, Bhojpuri, and others.