# 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 app-minichi.vercel.app, paid per call via x402, $0.15/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-13).

Extracts and transcribes text from images using the MiniMax-M3 428B multimodal model via NVIDIA NIM, payable in USDC on Base.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://app-minichi.vercel.app/api/ocr?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.15/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/minichan-ocr-nvidia-nim-minimax-m3-image-text-extraction-2055b843
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_yJ-wO0QUpTDb6rzo0xG3N

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-2055b843 -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/receipt.jpg

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need high-quality OCR powered by a large multimodal model (MiniMax-M3 428B) and can pay per-call in USDC on Base via x402. Ideal for agents in crypto-native or Web3 workflows that already handle x402 payments, or when you need a capable vision model for complex, dense, or handwritten text rather than simple document OCR.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or inaccessible image URL returns an error or empty result
- Image contains no readable text — model may return empty or minimal output
- Unsupported image format may cause processing failure
- Network timeout if image URL is slow to load
- Payment failure via x402/USDC results in 402 response before processing begins

## 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 a JSON object containing the text extracted from the provided image, as recognized by the MiniMax-M3 428B multimodal model via NVIDIA NIM. May include structured text blocks, lines, or a combined transcript depending on the model output.

## 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-2055b843/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from app-minichi.vercel.app](https://www.zero.xyz/host/app-minichi.vercel.app/llms.txt)