OCRRouterGet API key

Extract text from an image

Pull all the text out of an image, keeping paragraphs, lists and tables in order, ready to reuse.

Result

Your Markdown or JSON shows up here.

3 free pages a day, no sign-up.

How it works

  1. Step 1
    Upload the image
  2. Step 2
    We detect each text block and its order
  3. Step 3
    Copy or download the extracted text

Why use this Extract text from image converter

Structure, not just characters

Text comes back in blocks in reading order, so multi-column layouts do not turn into mixed-up lines.

Tables as tables

A table in the image becomes a Markdown table you can paste into a spreadsheet or document.

Same result through the API

What you see here is one POST request away, so you can automate it once it works on your images.

What people use it for

Models that do this well

The free tool picks one for you. With the API you choose, and can set fallbacks so a failed page is retried on the next model.

1Mistral OCRFast document OCR that returns clean Markdown with tables and embedded images.mistral/mistral-ocr6 credits / page2Gemini FlashGeneral vision model with strong handwriting and layout understanding at a low price.google/gemini-flash3 credits / page3PaddleOCR-VLOpen-source document model from Baidu. Excellent on Chinese, Japanese and Korean.paddle/paddleocr-vl2 credits / page4Amazon TextractAWS OCR with form key-value pairs, tables and per-word confidence scores.aws/textract6 credits / page

Do it with the API

Converting more than a few files? The same conversion is one request. Pick any model, or let auto choose.

Get API key

curl https://api.ocrrouter.ai/v1/ocr \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OCRROUTER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "auto",
    "file_url": "https://example.com/invoice.pdf",
    "format": "markdown"
  }'

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