Cloudmersive OCR is an API service for extracting text from images, scanned documents, and PDFs.

Provided free and as is, without warranty of any kind — including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and the accuracy or completeness of any result. See the licence. You are responsible for checking what this produces before relying on it.

Cloudmersive Ocr

Cloudmersive OCR is an API service for extracting text from images, scanned documents, and PDFs.

Base URL: https://api.cloudmersive.com
Auth: header:Apikey (pass your key via the apiKey input)

Operations

imageocr_imagelineswithlocation — POST /ocr/image/to/lines-with-location — Convert a scanned image into words with location
imageocr_imagewordswithlocation — POST /ocr/image/to/words-with-location — Convert a scanned image into words with location
imageocr_post — POST /ocr/image/toText — Convert a scanned image into text
pdfocr_pdftolineswithlocation — POST /ocr/pdf/to/lines-with-location — Convert a PDF into text lines with location
pdfocr_pdftowordswithlocation — POST /ocr/pdf/to/words-with-location — Convert a PDF into words with location
pdfocr_post — POST /ocr/pdf/toText — Converts an uploaded PDF file into text via Optical Character Recognition.

Inputs

apiKey — your cloudmersive-ocr API key
operation — one of the operations above
path parameters when an operation's path contains {...}
query — optional JSON object of query params
body — JSON object for create/update ops

Example

operation: imageocr_imagelineswithlocation
apiKey: <your key>

Publishes

The keys a later task may reference as {{taskName.key}}. Referencing anything not listed here resolves to nothing at run time.

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result
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Input Properties

Every property this tool accepts, from its own tool.iml.

Property	Type	Required	Default	Description
`apiKey`	string	yes	—	DEPRECATED — bind an API Key credential to the task with `credentialName` instead. A key pasted here is stored in the workflow definition in clear and appears in every export of it. Still honoured for workflows built before the change.
`operation`	string	yes	—	One of: imageocr_imagelineswithlocation, imageocr_imagewordswithlocation, imageocr_post, pdfocr_pdftolineswithlocation, pdfocr_pdftowordswithlocation, pdfocr_post
`body`	string	no	—	Request body as a JSON object string (for create/update operations).
`query`	string	no	—	Query-string parameters as a JSON object string, e.g. {"limit": 50}. Parsed and url-encoded onto the request.