Bengali OCR API
Read Bengali (Bangla) text from books, forms and IDs, with conjuncts and vowel signs kept intact.
Result
Your Markdown or JSON shows up here.
What makes Bengali hard for OCR
- Many conjunct forms
- Vowel signs on both sides of a consonant
- Old print with broken headlines
Script: Bengali-Assamese script.
Call it from your code
curl https://api.ocrrouter.ai/v1/ocr \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $OCRROUTER_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "google/gemini-flash",
"file_url": "https://example.com/invoice.pdf",
"format": "markdown"
}'Best models for Bengali text
1Gemini FlashGeneral vision model with strong handwriting and layout understanding at a low price.
google/gemini-flash3 credits / page2Google Document AIGoogle Cloud OCR with layout parsing and specialised processors.google/document-ai3 credits / page3GPTGeneral vision model. Good at messy scans and following extraction instructions.openai/gpt11 credits / page