Vision OCR
Free tierExtract text, tables, and key-value pairs from any document.
About this API
Upload an image or PDF and receive structured text with bounding boxes and confidence scores. Trained on invoices, receipts, IDs, and handwritten forms across 94 languages, with layout-aware table reconstruction.
Common use cases
Quickstart
Every Zephiel API uses the same base URL, the same key header, and the same error envelope.
curl -X GET "https://zephiel.com/api/v1/vision-ocr/ocr" \
-H "X-Zephiel-Key: $ZEPHIEL_API_KEY" \
-H "Accept: application/json"Example response
{
"pages": 1,
"language": "en",
"fields": {
"invoice_number": "INV-20841",
"total": 4820.5,
"currency": "USD",
"due_date": "2026-09-14"
},
"confidence": 0.973
}/v1/vision-ocr/ocrExtract text from an image or PDF/v1/vision-ocr/tablesReconstruct tables into JSON rows/v1/vision-ocr/documents/invoiceParse an invoice into typed fieldsAll endpoints return JSON and accept the X-Zephiel-Key header. Rate limits are enforced per plan and reported in X-RateLimit-Remaining.
Plans can be changed or cancelled at any time. Overage is charged per 1,000 requests rather than hard-blocking your traffic.
Free
100 requests/mo
5 req/min
Free
- JSON output format — included
- HTTPS encryption — included
- API key authentication — included
- Standard endpoints — included
- Community support — included
- CSV output format — not included
- Email support — not included
- Usage analytics and alerts — not included
- 99.9% uptime SLA — not included
- Webhooks — not included
- Priority support — not included
- Custom rate limits — not included
- 99.99% uptime SLA — not included
- Dedicated success manager — not included
- SSO / SAML — not included
- Custom SLA, DPA, and BAA — not included
- Private deployment option — not included
- Volume pricing — not included
Starter
10,000 requests/mo
60 req/min
$25/month
- JSON output format — included
- HTTPS encryption — included
- API key authentication — included
- Standard endpoints — included
- Community support — included
- CSV output format — included
- Email support — included
- Usage analytics and alerts — included
- 99.9% uptime SLA — included
- Webhooks — not included
- Priority support — not included
- Custom rate limits — not included
- 99.99% uptime SLA — not included
- Dedicated success manager — not included
- SSO / SAML — not included
- Custom SLA, DPA, and BAA — not included
- Private deployment option — not included
- Volume pricing — not included
Most popular
Pro
250,000 requests/mo
600 req/min
$100/month
- JSON output format — included
- HTTPS encryption — included
- API key authentication — included
- Standard endpoints — included
- Community support — included
- CSV output format — included
- Email support — included
- Usage analytics and alerts — included
- 99.9% uptime SLA — included
- Webhooks — included
- Priority support — included
- Custom rate limits — included
- 99.99% uptime SLA — included
- Dedicated success manager — not included
- SSO / SAML — not included
- Custom SLA, DPA, and BAA — not included
- Private deployment option — not included
- Volume pricing — not included
Enterprise
Unlimited requests
Custom
$350/month
- JSON output format — included
- HTTPS encryption — included
- API key authentication — included
- Standard endpoints — included
- Community support — included
- CSV output format — included
- Email support — included
- Usage analytics and alerts — included
- 99.9% uptime SLA — included
- Webhooks — included
- Priority support — included
- Custom rate limits — included
- 99.99% uptime SLA — included
- Dedicated success manager — included
- SSO / SAML — included
- Custom SLA, DPA, and BAA — included
- Private deployment option — included
- Volume pricing — included
4.8
12 reviews
Laura Bennett
Director of Engineering
Now handles kyc document capture too
We adopted Vision OCR for invoice processing and ended up using it for kyc document capture as well. Same key, no new contract, no second integration.
Henrik Solberg
Backend Lead
Support answered properly
Asked Meridian AI about an edge case in Vision OCR and got an explanation from someone who had clearly read the code, not a link to the FAQ.
Priya Sundaram
Staff Engineer
Quietly reliable
Vision OCR has not surprised us once in eight months of production traffic. That is the highest compliment I can pay a dependency.
Kwame Boateng
Integrations Lead
One key made the difference
Adding Vision OCR took ten minutes because the credential already existed. The vendor onboarding we skipped would have taken longer than the integration.
Tunde Alabi
Principal Engineer
Solved Invoice processing for us
We brought Vision OCR in for Invoice processing and it has not needed revisiting since. The response shape matched the documentation on the first call, which is rarer than it should be.
Ibrahim Diallo
Head of Platform
Predictable enough to plan around
Vision OCR takes about 890ms, which is fine for the work it does. What matters is that the number barely moves — we queue the call and our timeouts have not fired once.
Nadia Haddad
Principal Engineer
Free tier covered the whole prototype
I built the entire receipt digitization flow against Vision OCR before anyone had to approve a purchase order. By the time we paid, we already knew it worked.
Diego Navarro
Tech Lead
Replaced a fragile in-house extraction job
We had a script doing archive search that broke every few months and only one person understood. Vision OCR replaced it in an afternoon and nobody maintains it now.
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