OCR.space API
Low-cost OCR API with a large free tier. Returns text, word boxes and searchable PDFs.
- Model ID
- ocrspace/ocr-space
- Type
- OCR API
- Price
- 1 credits / page ($1.00 per 1,000 pages)
- Typical speed
- 1.5 s / page
- Inputs
- PDF, images
- Languages
- 20+ languages
- Max pages per request
- 100
- Output
- Markdown, JSON with positions
- Supports
- TablesBounding boxesMultilingual
curl https://api.ocrrouter.ai/v1/ocr \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $OCRROUTER_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "ocrspace/ocr-space",
"file_url": "https://example.com/invoice.pdf",
"format": "markdown"
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OCR.space speed and reliability
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OCR.space pricing
OCR.space costs 1 credits per page. One dollar buys 1,000 credits, so 1,000 pages cost $1.00. You only pay for pages that return a result.
New accounts get 200 free credits, enough for about 200 pages with this model. See pricing for credit packs.
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