# MiniChan OCR — NVIDIA NIM MiniMax-M3 Image Text Extraction

> MiniChan OCR — NVIDIA NIM MiniMax-M3 Image Text Extraction is a paid API for AI agents from minichan.vercel.app, paid per call via x402, $0.15/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Extracts and recognizes text from an image URL using NVIDIA NIM-powered MiniMax-M3 multimodal AI

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://minichan.vercel.app/api/ocr
- Price: $0.15/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/minichan-ocr-nvidia-nim-minimax-m3-image-text-extraction-1ba8cad9
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_kwbnARIkytJlauzoFVs_2

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 minichan-ocr-nvidia-nim-minimax-m3-image-text-extraction-1ba8cad9 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you read and extract all the text from this image for me? Here's the URL: https://example.com/document-scan.jpg

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to extract text from an image URL using a powerful 428B multimodal MoE model and are comfortable paying per call in USDC via x402. Ideal for agents already operating in the Base/x402 payment ecosystem who want high-quality OCR without managing their own vision model infrastructure.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or inaccessible image URL returns an error
- Image with no readable text may return empty or minimal output
- Unsupported image format may cause processing failure
- Network timeout if image URL takes too long to fetch
- NVIDIA NIM backend unavailability causing 5xx errors

## How this service works

NVIDIA NIM MiniMax-M3 (428B MoE) powered API for AI agents. 15 multimodal endpoints — text, vision, code, reasoning, creative. Pay with USDC on Base via x402.

## Output

Returns an object containing the recognized text extracted from the provided image, powered by the MiniMax-M3 428B multimodal model via NVIDIA NIM. Costs $0.15 USDC per call.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "required": [
  "image_url"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "image_url": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "URL of the image to analyze"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object"
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/minichan-ocr-nvidia-nim-minimax-m3-image-text-extraction-1ba8cad9/health.json
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