Auto-Reader · OCR API Auto-Reader · OCR API
Arabic- and Japanese-first OCR + translation API — manga-aware, and read panel-by-panel in the app — with broad Asian-script coverage and 13+ auto-detected languages · العربية واليابانية أولاً
Real API, real GPU. OCR an image, translate text, or clean up messy OCR — switch tools with one click.
Drop a PDF or images — get selectable text, Markdown, a translation, structured data (invoice, receipt, ID), or the same document back with a selectable-text layer. Runs on your free key; PDFs up to 20 pages (10 when translating).
Drop a PDF, images, or a comic archive (CBZ/CBR/CBT) here or
Need a searchable PDF, Word or EPUB? Shrink & make searchable below, or the /v1/book API.
Every endpoint speaks JSON, returns in one round trip, and is documented in an OpenAPI spec your tools can read.
Image in, text out — boxes, confidence, reading order, and a copy-ready layout that preserves the page's line structure. lang=auto detects the script. Add format=markdown or format=chunks for RAG-ready output straight into your embedding pipeline.
A whole PDF in one call — per-page OCR and optional translation, billed by actual pages. No 50k-character minimums.
Every line translated with shared context in one round trip. format=overlay returns the page with the original text erased and the translation laid over it as selectable text.
100+ languages with business controls: formality (فصحى or casual), context, and per-key glossary — your terminology, enforced.
OCR-artifact cleanup or spelling/grammar fixes with minimal edits — line breaks preserved, nothing rephrased.
A whole book or your lecture notes in: get back a searchable PDF (text selectable, design untouched), Word, EPUB, Markdown — or a fully translated book with every page re-typeset. Handwriting in beta.
Make a scanned PDF much smaller for email while it stays visually crisp — and it becomes searchable (the text turns selectable) in the process. High-quality or Email-share presets.
Grammarly-style fixes for OCR'd notes in 100+ languages: proofread, rephrase, change tone, simplify, shorten, or summarize — minimal-surprise edits.
Summarize a scanned contract, extract fields from a receipt, classify a document — one call after OCR.
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Drop a scanned PDF (or page images). We shrink it for email while keeping the page design crisp, and add a selectable text layer so it's searchable. Instant & free up to 8 pages without a key; 20 pages once you add an email; and up to 250 pages with credits (bigger jobs run in the background, billed per page — we show the cost first). Office files (PPT, Word) — coming soon.
Drop a PDF or images here or · 8 pages free · 20 with an email · up to 250 with credits
Signed in? Reduces run on your key — your free daily allowance is spent first, then credits (1 credit/page; vectorize bills 2×). Keyless stays free up to 8 pages.
Copy, paste, run. The same key works for every endpoint.
One key, every device. Fast OCR, translation, rewriting and file-shrinking wherever you work — your PC, your phone, or right inside your email flow.
Get your free key →Export it as an env var so every call below just works.
bash: export NSK_KEY=nsk_live_xxx PowerShell: $env:NSK_KEY="nsk_live_xxx"
Any image, any language — lang=auto detects the script.
curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer $NSK_KEY" -F "[email protected]" -F "lang=auto" https://api.auto-reader.com/v1/ocr
Per-page OCR for a multi-page document, in one call.
curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer $NSK_KEY" -F "[email protected]" https://api.auto-reader.com/v1/document
Smaller file, still crisp — and it becomes searchable.
curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer $NSK_KEY" -F "[email protected]" -F "quality=email" -o small.pdf https://api.auto-reader.com/v1/reduce
100+ languages, straight JSON in and out.
curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer $NSK_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"text":"مرحبا","target_lang":"en"}' https://api.auto-reader.com/v1/translate
Grammarly-style fixes, minimal-surprise edits.
curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer $NSK_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"text":"...","action":"proofread"}' https://api.auto-reader.com/v1/rewrite
Share sheet a photo/PDF → Get Contents of URL (Method POST, Request Body = Form, add a file field = Shortcut Input, Header Authorization: Bearer nsk_live_…, URL https://api.auto-reader.com/v1/ocr) → Get Dictionary Value text → Copy. Android: an HTTP Shortcuts app POST does the same.
lang=ar) to skip auto-detect/v1/reduce for size (instant; 8 pages without a key, 20 with an email, up to 250 with credits) and /v1/book for big jobsIdempotency-Key header to dedupe repeats (free 24h replay)/v1/translate/batch (20% off)1 credit = 1 OCR page ≈ SAR 0.004 (~$0.001). Translation runs on our own GPU-hosted LLM and costs 7 credits a page — a fraction of DeepL, with the OCR included. Pages already in the target language bill as plain OCR.
| Per translated page (OCR included) | Free tier | Base fee | Document minimums |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auto-Reader OCR — ~$0.0075 | 500 OCR pages/day | none | billed by actual pages |
| DeepL API — ≈ $0.0375 + base fee | 500k chars/month | $5.49/mo | min 50,000 chars charged per file |
| Google Vision OCR — $1.50/1,000 (no translation) | 1,000/month | none | — |
DeepL per-page estimate assumes ~1,500 characters/page at their $25/1M characters API rate. Self-hosted, built for PDPL, and your images never train anything without your consent.
An agent can go from discovering this API to its first OCR call in one step — no email, no human in the loop.
One POST /signup — no email, no captcha — returns a working trial key. Agents onboard themselves.
A plain-text manifest tells any LLM exactly what we do, how to authenticate, and where the spec lives.
Full machine-readable spec at /openapi.json — code generators and agents build clients without reading docs.
Plug api.auto-reader.com/mcp into Claude, Cursor or any MCP client for instant OCR + translation tools — claude mcp add --transport http auto-reader-ocr https://api.auto-reader.com/mcp.
Fire a real keyed request from the browser. Get a key below, paste it here — the equivalent curl is generated for you.
Bring your own tools: OpenAPI spec · import it into Postman or any client generator · llms.txt for your agent
Email optional: with one you get 500 credits/day free, without one an instant 50/day test key. Upgrade any time — no card required.
With an email your key gets 500 credits/day free immediately — no confirmation step. Without one, an instant 50/day trial key. Images are processed transiently and not stored by default (PDPL; training storage is opt-in).
Bought credits and don’t see them? Paste the key you purchased with — the balance updates within seconds of payment.
Prefer the app? Read books, comics and documents aloud on the go —