# Entropy.rip Tesseract OCR

> Entropy.rip Tesseract OCR is a paid API for AI agents from entropy.rip, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).

Extracts text from an uploaded image using Tesseract OCR, returning recognized text along with image dimensions and format metadata.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://entropy.rip/api/ocr/tesseract
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/entropy-rip-tesseract-ocr-9fc5f3e8
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_FH4BjOOKPNRpB94OSdM3Z

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability entropy-rip-tesseract-ocr-9fc5f3e8 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you extract all the text from this PNG image of a scanned invoice? Use English as the language.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a low-cost ($0.01/call), simple, per-image OCR operation using Tesseract on PNG, JPEG, or GIF files up to 10 MB, especially when multi-language support via Tesseract language codes is needed and cloud-vendor lock-in is undesirable.

## Known failure modes

- Image exceeds 10 MB size limit — returns an error
- Unsupported image format (non-PNG/JPEG/GIF) — returns an error
- Invalid or unsupported Tesseract language code — may return empty text or error
- Poor image quality or low contrast text — returns degraded or empty recognized text
- Corrupt or malformed image binary — returns a parsing or decoding error

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## Output

A JSON object containing the recognized text string extracted from the image, the image width and height in pixels, the image format (e.g. 'png'), and the language code used for recognition.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "image": {
   "type": "string",
   "format": "binary",
   "description": "Image file to OCR (PNG, JPEG, or GIF; max 10 MB)"
  },
  "language": {
   "type": "string",
   "default": "eng",
   "description": "Tesseract language code"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "text": "Recognized text",
  "width": 640,
  "format": "png",
  "height": 480,
  "language": "eng"
 }
}
```

## More

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