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Cloudmersive OCR API
Pleasanton, California, United States
What it is
Cloudmersive OCR API turns scanned documents and photos of documents or receipts into text using deep-learning OCR. Its product page lists support for more than 90 languages, including English, simplified and traditional Chinese, French, Spanish, German, and Italian. For document and receipt photos, the API can locate the item and adjust skew and rotation before recognition. Receipt extraction can return business name, address, phone number, total, and date. Image and photo endpoints offer Basic, Normal, and Advanced recognition modes, and OCR jobs may use multiple API calls, including for multipage PDFs. The free tier is free and includes 600 calls per month, a 3.5 MB maximum file size, and one call per second. A credit card is required to use a free-tier key with OCR endpoints, and free-tier plans allow one simultaneous request. Paid plans start at $19.99 a month. Deployment options include public and private cloud, on-premises, managed instances, PaaS, and government cloud.
For and against
For
- Recognizes text in 90+ languages.
- Can deskew and derotate document photos.
- Receipt extraction includes business contact and total fields.
- Client libraries cover eight programming languages.
- Offers cloud, on-premises, and managed deployments.
Against
- Free-tier OCR use requires a credit card.
- Free tier allows one simultaneous request.
- Free tier limits files to 3.5 MB.
- OCR operations may consume multiple API calls.
The verdict
Cloudmersive OCR API combines document and receipt recognition with photo preprocessing, multilingual support, and several deployment choices. The free tier has call, file-size, concurrency, and credit-card requirements to consider.
Who it suits
It suits teams that need document or receipt OCR through an API, including those working across multiple languages. The listed deployment options and client libraries may suit projects with varied hosting or development environments.
Plans and prices
Free Tier
600 Calls/Month · 1 Calls/Second · 3.5 MB Maximum File Size · Access to All APIs
Read 30 Sep 2026 · cloudmersive.com
Basic
10,000 Calls/Month · 2 Calls/Second · 1 GB Maximum File Size · Access to All APIs
Read 30 Sep 2026 · cloudmersive.com
Business
25,000 Calls/Month · 2 Calls/Second · 1 GB Maximum File Size · Access to All APIs
Read 30 Sep 2026 · cloudmersive.com
Business Premier
50,000 Calls/Month · 3 Calls/Second · 1 GB Maximum File Size · Access to All APIs
Read 30 Sep 2026 · cloudmersive.com
Business Advantage
100,000 Calls/Month · 4 Calls/Second · 2 GB Maximum File Size · Access to All APIs
Read 30 Sep 2026 · cloudmersive.com
Medium Business
250,000 Calls/Month · 5 Calls/Second · 2 GB Maximum File Size · Access to All APIs
Read 30 Sep 2026 · cloudmersive.com
Medium Business Premier
350,000 Calls/Month · 5 Calls/Second · 2 GB Maximum File Size · Access to All APIs
Read 30 Sep 2026 · cloudmersive.com
Medium Business Advantage
500,000 Calls/Month · 6 Calls/Second · 2 GB Maximum File Size · Access to All APIs
Read 30 Sep 2026 · cloudmersive.com
Enterprise
Unlimited* Calls/Month · Unlimited* Calls/Second · Unlimited Maximum File Size · Access to All APIs
Read 30 Sep 2026 · cloudmersive.com
On the record
- Call accounting
- API requests may consume different call volumes depending on operation complexity, and OCR requests may orchestrate multiple calls, such as OCR on a multipage PDF.cloudmersive.com · read 30 Sep 2026
- Client libraries
- The OCR page lists client libraries for C#, Java, Node.js, Python, PHP, .NET Core, Ruby, and Objective-C, plus a Drupal client link.cloudmersive.com · read 30 Sep 2026
- Company and headquarters
- Cloudmersive, LLC describes itself as based in Pleasanton, California, and its site lists an address at 4695 Chabot Drive, Suite 200, Pleasanton, California 94588, United States.cloudmersive.com · read 30 Sep 2026
- Compliance and regions
- The security page describes GDPR and CCPA support and in-region deployment options for North America, Europe, the United Kingdom, and Asia Pacific.cloudmersive.com · read 30 Sep 2026
- Concurrency limit
- The pricing FAQ says free-tier plans are limited to one simultaneous request at a time.cloudmersive.com · read 30 Sep 2026
- Deployment
- Cloudmersive describes public cloud, dedicated managed instances, private cloud, on-premises, PaaS, and government cloud deployment options.cloudmersive.com · read 30 Sep 2026
- Free tier requirements
- The API reference says using a free-tier key with OCR endpoints requires adding a credit card to the account for security reasons.api.cloudmersive.com · read 30 Sep 2026
- Languages
- The product page states support for 90+ languages, including English, simplified and traditional Chinese, French, Spanish, German, and Italian.cloudmersive.com · read 30 Sep 2026
- Photo preprocessing
- For document and receipt photos, the API can find the document or receipt, then deskew and derotate images to prepare them for OCR.cloudmersive.com · read 30 Sep 2026
- Purpose
- Deep Learning OCR APIs convert scanned documents and photos of documents or receipts into text.cloudmersive.com · read 30 Sep 2026
- Receipt extraction
- Receipt OCR extracts business data from receipt photos; the API reference lists business name, address, phone number, total, and date among its outputs.api.cloudmersive.com · read 30 Sep 2026
- Recognition modes
- Image and photo OCR endpoints offer Basic, Normal, and Advanced recognition modes; the reference says Normal uses 26–30 API calls and Advanced uses 28–30 API calls.api.cloudmersive.com · read 30 Sep 2026
- Security
- Cloudmersive says its stateless APIs do not retain payload data after a transaction and its endpoints use HTTPS with TLS 1.2 or later.cloudmersive.com · read 30 Sep 2026
