Prompt
what API should I use for image to text
Latest observation
If you want to turn an image into text, you usually want an OCR API.
Good API options
- Google Cloud Vision API – very accurate, widely used
- AWS Textract – great for documents/forms/tables
- Microsoft Azure Computer Vision / OCR – solid OCR support
- Tesseract OCR – open-source, runs locally
- OpenAI vision models – useful if you want OCR plus understanding/summarizing the image
Which to choose?
- Printed text in images: Google Vision or Tesseract
- Scanned documents / receipts / forms: AWS Textract or Azure
- Need text extraction + interpretation: OpenAI vision models
- Need free/local: Tesseract
Simple recommendation
If you just need image → text, start with:
- Google Cloud Vision API for easy high-quality OCR
- Tesseract if you want something local and free
If you want, I can also give you:
- a comparison table
- sample code
- or the best API for your specific use case
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