Name: ocr
Price: 0.20 USDC
Availability: InStock

$ man ocr

agentutility / mediakit / ocr

PRICE / CALL

$0.20

USDC · base mainnet · scheme: exact

METHOD

POST

CLUSTER

mediakit

CATEGORY

uncategorized

STATUS

● live

NAME

ocr — ocr / optical character recognition / scanned document extractor / image-pdf to text

synonym alias of pdf-to-markdown — reuses the canonical handler.

SYNOPSIS

POST https://x402.org/v1/ocr
     Content-Type: application/json
     X-PAYMENT:    <signed-transferWithAuthorization>

     { ... }

↳ first call → 402 Payment Required. Sign USDCtransferWithAuthorization, retry with theX-PAYMENT header.

DESCRIPTION

OCR / optical character recognition / scanned document extractor / image-PDF to text. Run OCR on scanned PDFs and image-based documents. Datalab Marker engine — preserves layout, tables, math. Returns clean Markdown or plain text. 30 pages max.

INPUT — request schema

property	type	description	req?
pdf_url	string	Public URL of a PDF file (http or https). Must be directly fetchable, not behind auth or a viewer redirect. Max 30 pages.	required
output_format	string	'markdown' (default — best for LLM downstream), 'html' (preserves more layout structure), or 'json' (per-page blocks with type + bbox). enum: markdown · html · json	optional

OUTPUT — response shape

field	type	description
markdown	string	Extracted text from the document in Markdown format, preserving headings, tables, and math layout.
page_count	string	Number of pages processed from the input PDF or image document.
source_url	string	URL of the source PDF or image file that was passed in for OCR processing.

EXAMPLES — two ways to call

EXAMPLE 1 · curl

curl -X POST https://x402.org/v1/ocr \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{ }'

first response = 402 Payment Required with payment requirements; sign + retry with X-PAYMENT.

EXAMPLE 2 · mcp

# install once
claude mcp add x402 --command "npx x402-deployer-mcp"

# then ask Claude Code:
# "use the ocr tool to ..."

MCP server handles payment automatically — your coding agent just calls the tool by name.

METADATA

tags: ocrmediakitpdf-extractionscanned-documentsimage-to-textmarkdown-extractiontable-extractiondatalab-marker
methods: POST
cluster: mediakit
price: $0.20 USDC per call

ADJACENT — other endpoints in mediakit

endpoint	description	price
convert-pdf	Convert PDF to Markdown, HTML, JSON, or structured text via Datalab Marker.	$0.20
pdf-to-markdown	AI PDF extractor: PDF to Markdown / HTML / structured JSON via Datalab Marker.	$0.20
pdf-to-text	PDF to text / extract text from PDF.	$0.20
pdf2md	PDF to Markdown converter.	$0.20
extract-tables	Extract tables from PDF / table extractor / PDF to CSV / spreadsheet from PDF.	$0.10
mp4-to-mp3	MP4 → MP3 audio extractor.	$0.10
pdf-extract-tables	PDF table extractor / table from PDF / scanned-table parsing / financial-table OCR / multi-page table consolidator / Datalab Marker tables.	$0.10
pdf-to-jpg	PDF to JPG / PNG / WEBP image converter.	$0.10

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