Image Text Recognition
powered by AI.
Go beyond basic OCR with vision-language models that truly understand document structure. Our API doesn't just detect characters — it comprehends layout, hierarchy, and context to deliver perfectly structured text.
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Upload Any Image
Send photos, scans, screenshots, or PDFs via REST API. Our models handle any quality level.
Vision AI Analyzes
Unlike traditional OCR, our models understand spatial relationships, reading order, and document hierarchy.
Structured Text Returned
Get Markdown output preserving headings, tables, lists, and code blocks — not a flat string.
Why GiveMeText?
Vision-Language Models
Not template-based OCR. Our engines use vision-language AI models (Mistral Small, Gemini 2.0 Flash) that understand context and layout.
Layout-Aware Extraction
Multi-column documents, tables, margin notes, captions — the output preserves the original document structure.
Handwriting Support
The Gemini engine excels at recognizing handwritten text including cursive, mixed print/cursive, and multi-directional notes.
Multilingual by Default
Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Hindi, Russian, and 45+ more languages. Auto-detected, no config required.
Frequently Asked Questions
How is this different from traditional OCR like Tesseract?
Traditional OCR engines like Tesseract use character-level pattern matching. GiveMeText uses vision-language AI models that understand the full context of a document — reading order, hierarchy, tables, and even handwriting style. This means higher accuracy, better structure preservation, and support for complex layouts without pre-processing.
What languages are supported for text recognition?
The Mistral engine handles Latin-script languages efficiently. The Gemini engine supports 50+ languages including CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean), Arabic, Devanagari, Cyrillic, Thai, and more. Language is auto-detected — no configuration needed.
Can it recognize text in photos with perspective distortion?
Yes. The AI models handle perspective, rotation, and moderate blur. Unlike traditional OCR that requires pre-processing for deskewing, our models reason about spatial layout directly from the raw image.
What accuracy can I expect?
For clean printed text: 97-99% accuracy. For handwritten text: 85-95% depending on legibility. For mixed layouts (tables + text + handwriting): 90-97%. The Gemini engine consistently outperforms on challenging inputs.
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Drop an image and get perfectly formatted text in seconds. No installation, no sign-up required.