OCR

Read what’s on the car, not what the camera wished it saw.

Extract text from photos (dash, documents, stickers, part numbers, plates/VIN) with layout-aware results.

Best for

Common places this service fits well.

  • Import workflows
  • Inventory intake
  • Document parsing
  • Plate/VIN capture

Inputs

What you provide.

  • Photo (JPG/PNG/WebP)
  • Optional: region hints, language hints

Outputs

What you get back.

  • Text + confidence per field
  • Line-level positions
  • Normalization-ready tokens

Notes

Implementation details and product intent.

  • Built to behave on real photos: glare, perspective, cluttered backgrounds.

Try plate/VIN OCR

Upload a plate or VIN photo and see the recognized text.

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Max size 8 MB. For production, use your own storage or URLs.

Limited demo. For higher volume and auth, sign up and use your API key.

Output
JSON viewer and cURL you can copy.
// Run the demo to see a live
// JSON response here.
// For full docs, sign up and
// open the API reference.

Part of a pipeline?

Plate and VIN text feeds directly into normalization and downstream valuation.

  1. Photo input
  2. 1OCR
  3. 2Normalize
  4. 3Valuation
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