Chinese OCR API
Read Simplified and Traditional Chinese from scans, screenshots and photos, including vertical text.
Rezultat
Ovdje će se prikazati vaš Markdown ili JSON.
What makes Chinese hard for OCR
- Thousands of visually similar characters
- Vertical and mixed horizontal layouts
- Chinese mixed with English and numbers
Script: Simplified and Traditional Han characters.
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": "paddle/paddleocr-vl",
"file_url": "https://example.com/invoice.pdf",
"format": "markdown"
}'Best models for Chinese text
1PaddleOCR-VLOpen-source document model from Baidu. Excellent on Chinese, Japanese and Korean.
paddle/paddleocr-vl2 credits / page2Gemini FlashGeneral vision model with strong handwriting and layout understanding at a low price.google/gemini-flash3 credits / page3Mistral OCRFast document OCR that returns clean Markdown with tables and embedded images.mistral/mistral-ocr6 credits / page