Multilingual OCR API

Overview

The Multilingual OCR API extracts text from image files supporting multiple languages including Arabic, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Vietnamese and more. It returns the recognized text in plain text format. It uses a unified JSON request format, accepting either URL references or base64-encoded image data.

Authentication

The API supports two authentication methods:

API Key: Pass your API key as a query parameter ?key=YOUR_API_KEY

Extract Multilingual Text from Image

Extract text from an image file using multilingual OCR technology, supporting multiple language recognition.

Request

POST /api/multilingual-ocr

Parameters:

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
document	object	Yes	Document object
document.type	string	Yes	Fixed value "image_url"
document.image_url	string	Yes	Image URL or base64 data
filename	string	No	Filename (recommended for base64 data)
key	string	No	API key (query parameter, optional for logged-in users)

Supported Languages:

Arabic (العربية)
French (Français)
German (Deutsch)
Italian (Italiano)
Japanese (日本語)
Korean (한국어)
Portuguese (Português)
Russian (Русский)
Spanish (Español)
Vietnamese (Tiếng Việt)

Examples:

Using Image URL:

curl -X POST "https://llmocr.com/api/multilingual-ocr?key=YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "document": {
      "type": "image_url",
      "image_url": "https://llmocr.com/image.jpg"
    }
  }'

Using Base64 Image Data:

curl -X POST "https://llmocr.com/api/multilingual-ocr?key=YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "document": {
      "type": "image_url",
      "image_url": "data:image/jpeg;base64,/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQEA..."
    },
    "filename": "my-image.jpg"
  }'

Response

Parameters:

Parameter	Type	Description
id	string	Database record ID
filename	string	Filename
content	string	Multilingual text content extracted from image (plain text format)
format	string	Output format, fixed as "text"
timestamp	number	Processing completion timestamp
payload	string	API endpoint URL

Example:

{
  "id": "67891",
  "filename": "foreign-text.jpg",
  "content": "Bonjour! Comment allez-vous?\n\nこんにちは、元気ですか？\n\nHola, ¿cómo estás?\n\nGuten Tag! Wie geht es Ihnen?",
  "format": "text",
  "timestamp": 1640995200000,
  "payload": "https://llmocr.com/api/multilingual-ocr?key=YOUR_API_KEY"
}

LLMOCR

API Documentation

Quick Start

Overview

Authentication

Extract Multilingual Text from Image

Request

Response