Cloudmersive OCR API

Name: Cloudmersive OCR API
Brand: Cloudmersive OCR API
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For Agents

Extract text and structured data from images, PDFs, and photographs - including business cards, receipts, and forms - using a Cloudmersive Apikey.

Install Jentic One Beta

Connect the Cloudmersive OCR API to your agent

Jentic One is a self-hosted execution layer for AI agents. It lets your agent call the Cloudmersive OCR API, or any other public or private API you need. You set the rules, the agent never sees your credentials, and every call is logged.

Two steps, two machines. Install the instance in a safe environment, then register your agent from wherever it runs.

Step 1: Jentic One Host machine

# On the machine that will host your Jentic One instance:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh

Step 2: Agent machine

# On the machine where your agent runs (keep this separate from the instance):
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh
jentic register       # connects your agent to your Jentic One instance

Jentic One is in public beta. The setup above keeps your agent separate from the instance, which is what you want before using real credentials: an agent running as the same OS user as Jentic One can read its stored keys directly. Just evaluating? A single local install is fine to start. See the secure deployment guide for the tiers.

Capabilities

What an agent can do with Cloudmersive OCR API.

Convert an image to plain text via /ocr/image/toText

Return text with bounding box locations at /ocr/image/to/lines-with-location and /ocr/image/to/words-with-location

Extract text from PDF pages via /ocr/pdf/toText

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Use Cases

Patterns agents use Cloudmersive OCR API for, with concrete tasks.

★ Scanned Document Digitisation

Convert a backlog of scanned PDFs into searchable text for archival or compliance. POST /ocr/pdf/toText for plain text output, or use /ocr/pdf/to/lines-with-location when downstream systems need bounding boxes for highlight rendering. Long files use the async job pattern via /ocr/pdf/get-job-status.

POST a PDF to /ocr/pdf/toText and write the returned text into the document index keyed by file ID.

Mobile Receipt and Business Card Capture

Turn phone-camera photos of receipts and business cards into structured records. /ocr/photo/recognize/business-card returns parsed name, title, company, phone, and email; /ocr/photo/recognize/form (and the advanced variant) extract filled-in form values. Suitable for expense or CRM import flows.

POST a phone photo to /ocr/photo/recognize/business-card and write the parsed contact into the CRM.

Layout-Preserving Text Extraction

Reconstruct document layout by combining word-level OCR with bounding boxes. /ocr/image/to/words-with-location returns each word with its coordinates so renderers can position text on a canvas, build searchable highlights, or feed downstream NLP that needs spatial context.

POST an image to /ocr/image/to/words-with-location and reconstruct the layout in a frontend overlay using the returned coordinates.

AI Agent OCR Workflows

Let a Jentic-powered agent extract text from an attachment without writing OCR plumbing. The agent searches Jentic for 'extract text from a PDF' or 'OCR a business card', loads the matching Cloudmersive operation, and executes it. The Apikey header is injected from your Jentic One instance.

Search Jentic for 'extract text from a scanned PDF', load the Cloudmersive pdfToText operation, and execute it with the source file.

Key Endpoints

20 endpoints — the cloudmersive ocr api converts scanned images and pdf pages into machine-readable text.

METHOD

PATH

DESCRIPTION

POST

/ocr/image/toText

Extract plain text from an image

POST

/ocr/image/to/words-with-location

Extract words with bounding boxes

POST

/ocr/image/to/lines-with-location

Extract lines with bounding boxes

POST

/ocr/pdf/toText

Extract text from a PDF

POST

/ocr/pdf/to/words-with-location

Extract PDF text with bounding boxes

GET

/ocr/pdf/get-job-status

Check async PDF OCR job status

POST

/ocr/photo/recognize/business-card

Parse a business card photo

POST

/ocr/photo/recognize/form/advanced

Extract form field data with advanced detection

POST

/ocr/image/toText

Extract plain text from an image

POST

/ocr/image/to/words-with-location

Extract words with bounding boxes

POST

/ocr/image/to/lines-with-location

Extract lines with bounding boxes

POST

/ocr/pdf/toText

Extract text from a PDF

POST

/ocr/pdf/to/words-with-location

Extract PDF text with bounding boxes

Why Jentic?

Three things that make agents converge on Jentic-routed access.

Credential isolation

Your Cloudmersive Apikey is stored once, encrypted, by your own Jentic One instance and injected at execution time. It never enters the agent's prompt, logs, or context.

Intent-based discovery

Agents search Jentic by intent such as 'extract text from a PDF' or 'parse a business card', and Jentic returns the matching Cloudmersive operation with its input schema so the agent calls the right endpoint without browsing the reference docs.

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FAQs

Specific to using Cloudmersive OCR API through Jentic.

What authentication does the Cloudmersive OCR API use?

The API uses an Apikey header. Generate the key in the Cloudmersive dashboard and pass it on every request as Apikey: <key>. Through Jentic, the key is stored encrypted in the vault and never enters the agent's context.

Can the Cloudmersive OCR API extract text from a PDF?

Yes. POST a PDF to /ocr/pdf/toText for plain text, or to /ocr/pdf/to/words-with-location and /ocr/pdf/to/lines-with-location for output with bounding box coordinates. Long documents use the async pattern via /ocr/pdf/get-job-status.

Does the Cloudmersive OCR API recognise business cards and forms?

Yes. /ocr/photo/recognize/business-card parses name, title, company, phone, and email from a card photo; /ocr/photo/recognize/form and /ocr/photo/recognize/form/advanced extract filled-in form values, with the advanced variant tuned for noisier captures.

How do I OCR an image through Jentic?

Run jentic search 'extract text from an image', load the Cloudmersive imageToText operation, and execute it with the source image. Jentic injects the Apikey header from the stored credential.

What are the rate limits for the Cloudmersive OCR API?

Rate limits depend on the Cloudmersive plan tier. The free tier allows a small monthly quota across all endpoints, while paid plans raise the per-minute and per-month ceilings. Check the Cloudmersive dashboard for the exact limits applied to your Apikey.

Can I get word-level coordinates for layout reconstruction?

Yes. /ocr/image/to/words-with-location and /ocr/pdf/to/words-with-location return each word with its bounding box, suitable for rendering highlight overlays or feeding NLP that needs spatial context.

Can I limit what my agent is allowed to do with the Cloudmersive OCR API?

Yes. Because you run Jentic One yourself, your own rules decide which Cloudmersive OCR operations and credentials the agent may use. The API passes the document in the request body rather than pinning an id in the URL path, so you scope the agent by the specific operations you import, such as extracting plain text from an image via /ocr/image/toText, reading a PDF via /ocr/pdf/toText, or parsing a business card via /ocr/photo/recognize/business-card. The agent can only reach the OCR operations you include, and your stored Apikey is injected at execution time without ever entering the agent's context.

Cloudmersive OCR API

Connect the Cloudmersive OCR API to your agent

Capabilities

Start building with Cloudmersive OCR API

Use Cases

Key Endpoints

Why Jentic?

Related APIs

FAQs