Nepali OCR API
Read Nepali Devanagari text from government forms, IDs and printed documents.
Result
Your Markdown or JSON shows up here.
What makes Nepali hard for OCR
- Conjuncts and the connecting headline
- Nepali digits alongside Western ones
- Low-quality scans of official forms
Script: Devanagari.
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 Nepali 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