OCRRouterGet API key

Convert a photo to text

Take a photo of a page, sign or whiteboard with your phone and turn it into text you can edit.

Result

Your Markdown or JSON shows up here.

3 free pages a day, no sign-up.

How it works

  1. Step 1
    Take a photo or pick one from your gallery
  2. Step 2
    Upload it
  3. Step 3
    Copy the text

Why use this Photo to text converter

Built for real-world photos

Vision models handle uneven light, slight blur and curved pages better than classic scanner OCR.

Works from your phone

The page runs in the mobile browser, so you can photograph and upload without installing an app.

Signs and labels too

Not just documents: menus, posters, product labels and street signs can be read.

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.

1Gemini FlashGeneral vision model with strong handwriting and layout understanding at a low price.google/gemini-flash3 credits / page2GPTGeneral vision model. Good at messy scans and following extraction instructions.openai/gpt11 credits / page3ClaudeGeneral vision model with careful reading of long, dense documents.anthropic/claude14 credits / page4Mistral OCRFast document OCR that returns clean Markdown with tables and embedded images.mistral/mistral-ocr6 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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