OCR API and download package for your own server. Every page comes back as text with a box and a confidence for every word. https://ocr-software.com/ en Wed, 11 Nov 2026 08:31:41 +0000 Wed, 11 Nov 2026 08:31:41 +0000 1440 Wire The history of optical character recognition in 13 short scenes with a voice: the 1913 optophone, OCR-A, Kurzweil, Tesseract, large language models, today. https://ocr-software.com/about/ Mon, 09 Nov 2026 14:29:49 +0000 OCR-SOFTWARE https://ocr-software.com/about/ Text reader, page orientation, layout, table grid and an image-to-text model: what each does in the pipelines, its measured score with the run, where it is weak, its licence. https://ocr-software.com/blog/inside-our-ocr-pipelines/ Mon, 09 Nov 2026 14:29:49 +0000 OCR-SOFTWARE https://ocr-software.com/blog/inside-our-ocr-pipelines/ Seven OCR models read the same public café receipt and invoice. Same spot, seven readings, the print beside each, and for every model what it did well and where it slipped. Run smoke-hart. https://ocr-software.com/blog/seven-ocr-models-same-hard-pages/ Mon, 09 Nov 2026 14:29:49 +0000 OCR-SOFTWARE https://ocr-software.com/blog/seven-ocr-models-same-hard-pages/ Write to info@ocr-software.com about a contract, a server of your own, a pipeline for your pages or a fault in the download, and see what the first message needs. https://ocr-software.com/contact/ Sun, 08 Nov 2026 11:15:33 +0000 OCR-SOFTWARE https://ocr-software.com/contact/ Read your first page with curl in five minutes, then go on to production: pinned pipelines, limits, error codes, retries and confidence per word. https://ocr-software.com/docs/api-guide/ Sun, 08 Nov 2026 11:15:33 +0000 OCR-SOFTWARE https://ocr-software.com/docs/api-guide/ Which OCR output format for which job: JSON, plain text, Markdown, hOCR and searchable PDF, each with its strength, its limit and a page of its own. https://ocr-software.com/docs/formats/ Sun, 08 Nov 2026 11:15:33 +0000 OCR-SOFTWARE https://ocr-software.com/docs/formats/ Self-hosted OCR API with word boxes and confidence: install, first curl call, pinned pipelines, output formats, limits and every error code. https://ocr-software.com/docs/ Sun, 08 Nov 2026 11:15:33 +0000 OCR-SOFTWARE https://ocr-software.com/docs/ Install the OCR API on your own Linux server with an NVIDIA card: download, check SHA-256, seven commands, first page. Which cards work is listed. https://ocr-software.com/docs/install/ Sun, 08 Nov 2026 11:15:33 +0000 OCR-SOFTWARE https://ocr-software.com/docs/install/ Every OCR pipeline in one table with its version: what it is best for and what it returns. You pin one per call, so the same page is read the same way. https://ocr-software.com/docs/pipelines/ Sun, 08 Nov 2026 11:15:33 +0000 OCR-SOFTWARE https://ocr-software.com/docs/pipelines/ Every endpoint of the OCR API with parameters, bodies, responses, fields, errors and a call to copy, generated from the OpenAPI file. https://ocr-software.com/docs/reference/ Sun, 08 Nov 2026 11:15:33 +0000 OCR-SOFTWARE https://ocr-software.com/docs/reference/ Pick a pipeline, formats and features. The finished call appears as curl, Python and JavaScript. Your key is read from an environment variable. https://ocr-software.com/docs/request/ Sun, 08 Nov 2026 11:15:33 +0000 OCR-SOFTWARE https://ocr-software.com/docs/request/ Fair Use beim gehosteten Dienst von ocr-software.com: Grenzen, Beispiele und was wir bei Überschreitung tun. https://ocr-software.com/legal/de/fair-usage/ Sun, 08 Nov 2026 11:15:33 +0000 OCR-SOFTWARE https://ocr-software.com/legal/de/fair-usage/ SaaS-Bedingungen der Helm & Nagel GmbH für den gehosteten Dienst von ocr-software.com. https://ocr-software.com/legal/de/saas/ Sun, 08 Nov 2026 11:15:33 +0000 OCR-SOFTWARE https://ocr-software.com/legal/de/saas/ Fair use of the hosted ocr-software.com service: limits, examples and what we do when they are passed (translation; the German text is binding). https://ocr-software.com/legal/fair-usage/ Sun, 08 Nov 2026 11:15:33 +0000 OCR-SOFTWARE https://ocr-software.com/legal/fair-usage/ SaaS terms for the hosted service of ocr-software.com (translation; the German text is binding). https://ocr-software.com/legal/saas-terms/ Sun, 08 Nov 2026 11:15:33 +0000 OCR-SOFTWARE https://ocr-software.com/legal/saas-terms/ 24 weaknesses found in the OCR service's own code and fixed, self-rated, with the test for each. What was searched for and not found. https://ocr-software.com/legal/security/ Sun, 08 Nov 2026 11:15:33 +0000 OCR-SOFTWARE https://ocr-software.com/legal/security/ On-premise OCR in four steps, from the first test page to production on your own hardware or a managed server in Germany, then operations, updates and support. https://ocr-software.com/offer/own-server/ Sun, 08 Nov 2026 11:15:33 +0000 OCR-SOFTWARE https://ocr-software.com/offer/own-server/ Procurement asks for the data processing agreement before the first page is sent. The standard DPA under Art. 28 GDPR comes with its security annex, and yours can be talked through. https://ocr-software.com/own-dpa/ Sun, 08 Nov 2026 11:15:33 +0000 OCR-SOFTWARE https://ocr-software.com/own-dpa/ Pick your job: PDF to text, tables, splitting a scan stack, redaction, translation, chat with scans. The same page gives the same result, with a box and a confidence per word. https://ocr-software.com/solutions/ Sun, 08 Nov 2026 11:15:33 +0000 OCR-SOFTWARE https://ocr-software.com/solutions/ A dense test table of 194 lines, read by a pipeline: 190 lines equal the text, four differ. Every cell comes with its box; the grid is rebuilt from the boxes. https://ocr-software.com/blog/tables-which-tools-keep-the-grid/ Sat, 07 Nov 2026 09:09:47 +0000 OCR-SOFTWARE https://ocr-software.com/blog/tables-which-tools-keep-the-grid/