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OCR + speech to text API

Artificial Intelligence / AI Platforms1 observationLast seen Oct 6, 2026

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Oct 6, 2026OpenAI APIWeb search: off

If you want an OCR + speech-to-text API, here are some solid options depending on what you need:

Cloud APIs

  • Google Cloud Vision + Speech-to-Text
    • OCR: image/PDF text extraction
    • STT: audio transcription
    • Good accuracy, easy integration
  • AWS Textract + Transcribe
    • OCR: documents, forms, tables
    • STT: audio files and streaming
  • Azure AI Vision + Speech
    • OCR and transcription in one ecosystem

Open-source / self-hosted

  • Tesseract OCR for text from images
  • Whisper for speech-to-text
  • Can be wrapped into your own API using FastAPI / Flask / Node.js

Combined workflow

If you want one API endpoint that handles both:

  1. Upload image/PDF/audio
  2. Detect file type
  3. Run OCR or STT accordingly
  4. Return JSON response

Example response format

{
  "type": "ocr",
  "text": "Detected text here"
}

or

{
  "type": "stt",
  "text": "Transcribed speech here"
}

If you want, I can help you with:

  1. a ready-to-use API design
  2. sample code in Python/Node
  3. best provider recommendation for your use case

Brands

Google Cloud VisionAws TextractAzure Ai VisionTesseract OcrWhisperFastapiFlaskNode Js

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