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Select files from your computer, or just drag and drop into the upload box. Supports PNG, JPG, PDF files.

Extract Text from Image

Our image to text converter tool recognizes the content in your image file and converts it into editable text.

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Download your converted image to text file within seconds.

What is OCR  technology?

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology converts different documents, such as scanned paper documents, handwritten notes, pictures captured by a digital camera, or images into editable and searchable data.

OCR is the most efficient way to convert images, physical documents or pictures to machine-readable formats such that they can then be edited on Word, Excel, Docs or Sheets. Most online image to text converters use OCR to convert non-editable file formats (e.g. TIFF, PNG or JPG) to editable outputs. This is why OCR becomes necessary to extract text from image.

Applications of Image to Text Conversion

Image to Text conversion tools can transform and streamline business operations across sectors and industries by effortlessly extracting data from scanned documents.

Business Automation

Image to text conversion technology enhances business automation by streamlining the data entry and document management processes. By converting paper documents and scanned images into editable, searchable digital formats, image to text conversion eliminates the need for manual data entry, significantly reducing errors and labor costs.

Finance Sector

The financial sector can benefit greatly from image to text conversion technology by enabling professionals and accountants to focus on high-priority tasks. Automating the process of extracting text from images makes financial data processing more efficient and less prone to error.

Health Industry

Organizations in the medical field manage a large volume of paper medical records, health insurance forms, and medical declarations. Image to text softwares provide a solution by converting all form of data be it patient data, treatment history, insurance payments, or diagnosis information, into digitally accessible formats, enhancing process efficiency in medical data management.

Newspaper, Media and Education

It is now more important than ever to digitise old records and printed texts. Our image to text conversion tool is adept at seamlessly converting pictures, printed articles, images, clippings, textbooks, and historical documents into editable text files with high accuracy and precision.

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Why Nanonets Image OCR is better ?

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Receive documents from multiple channels
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We are impressed with the intelligence in the product when it comes to data extraction. This opens up for many new areas where we can help our customers, like detection of fraud. We have been having a tight and transparent dialogue with Nanonets. Our customers are very pleased with the product as well as the technical support we together with Nanonets have been able to provide.

Per Defalva

Founder, DigitalEngine (Sweden), ex-CIO PwC Sweden

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Image to Text using Image OCR API

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import requests import base64 url = "https://app.nanonets.com/api/v2/OCR/FullText" payload={'urls': ['MY_IMAGE_URL']} files=[ ('file',('FILE_NAME',open('FILE_PATH','rb'),'application/pdf')) ] headers = {} response = requests.request("POST", url, headers=headers, data=payload, files=files, auth=requests.auth.HTTPBasicAuth('REPLACE_API_KEY', '')) print(response.text)
var axios = require('axios'); var FormData = require('form-data'); var fs = require('fs'); var data = new FormData(); data.apend('urls','FILE_URL') data.append('file', fs.createReadStream('FILE_PATH')); var config = { method: 'post', url: 'https://app.nanonets.com/api/v2/OCR/FullText', headers: { 'Authorization': 'Basic ' + Buffer.from("REPLACE_API_KEY" + ":").toString('base64'), ...data.getHeaders() }, data : data }; axios(config) .then(function (response) { console.log(JSON.stringify(response.data)); }) .catch(function (error) { console.log(error); });
var axios = require('axios'); var FormData = require('form-data'); var fs = require('fs'); var data = new FormData(); data.apend('urls','FILE_URL') data.append('file', fs.createReadStream('FILE_PATH')); var config = { method: 'post', url: 'https://app.nanonets.com/api/v2/OCR/FullText', headers: { 'Authorization': 'Basic ' + Buffer.from("REPLACE_API_KEY" + ":").toString('base64'), ...data.getHeaders() }, data : data }; axios(config) .then(function (response) { console.log(JSON.stringify(response.data)); }) .catch(function (error) { console.log(error); });
var client = new RestClient("https://app.nanonets.com/api/v2/OCR/FullText"); client.Timeout = -1; var request = new RestRequest(Method.POST); request.AddHeader("Authorization", "Basic " + Convert.ToBase64String(Encoding.Default.GetBytes("REPLACE_YOUR_API_KEY:"))); request.AddFile("file", "FILE_PATH"); IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request); Console.WriteLine(response.Content);
curl --location --request POST 'https://app.nanonets.com/api/v2/OCR/FullText' \ -u 'REPLACE_API_KEY:' \ --form 'file=@"FILE_PATH"'
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Once you create your account, click on My Account > API Keys to get your key. This key will allow you to authenticate Image to Text API requests.

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Want to Use our Python Package ?

Our Python Library gives you added control and options to perform OCR and extract tables and text from images in desired formats instantly.

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Key Features

User-friendly online OCR interface
Convert .jpg, .bmp, .png or .PDFs to text
No registration or signup needed
Free, low latency OCR API with unlimited requests
State of the art OCR accuracy - best in class
Supports 42+ languages for text recognition
Secure conversion - all data is removed
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