Tamil OCR API
Read Tamil text from documents, signboards and books, with vowel signs attached to the right consonants.
Result
Your Markdown or JSON shows up here.
What makes Tamil hard for OCR
- Vowel signs written before or around the consonant
- Similar looking letters at small sizes
- Tamil mixed with English
Script: Tamil 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 Tamil 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