/v1/ocr
Recognize text from an image
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curl "https://api.oanor.com/ocr-api/v1/ocr" \ -H "x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."
await fetch("https://api.oanor.com/ocr-api/v1/ocr", {
headers: { "x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..." }
});
$ch = curl_init("https://api.oanor.com/ocr-api/v1/ocr");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ["x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."]);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$out = curl_exec($ch);
import requests
requests.get(
"https://api.oanor.com/ocr-api/v1/ocr",
headers={"x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..."}
)
Example response
A real response from this endpoint, captured by the latest health check.
{
"data": {
"text": "Mild Splendour of the various-vested Night!\nMother of wildly-working visions! hail\nI watch thy gliding, while with watery light\nThy weak eye glimmers through a fleecy veil;\nAnd when thou lovest thy pale orb to shroud\nBehind the gather’d blackness lost on high;\nAnd when thou dartest from the wind-rent cloud\nThy placid lightning o’er the awaken’d sky.",
"language": "eng",
"confidence": 92,
"line_count": 8,
"word_count": 58
},
"meta": {
"timestamp": "2026-05-31T02:37:14.816Z",
"request_id": "8125c00b-8fba-46f3-a42b-34cb489fc6bc"
},
"status": "ok",
"message": "Text recognized",
"success": true
}