# 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-minichwaan.vercel.app, paid per call via x402, $0.15/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Extracts and recognizes text from images using NVIDIA NIM's MiniMax-M3 428B multimodal model, returning OCR results via a pay-per-call API

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://app-minichwaan.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-77dcff33
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_Y4C0tBWVtqnH9BX3egr3R

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-77dcff33 -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 to extract text from images using a state-of-the-art 428B parameter multimodal model and want to pay per-call in USDC on Base without API key subscriptions. It is well-suited for agents that need occasional OCR without committing to a traditional OCR service contract, and benefits from NVIDIA NIM's high-quality vision-language capabilities.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or inaccessible image URL returns an error
- Image URL pointing to a non-image resource fails to OCR
- Very low resolution or heavily distorted images may yield poor text extraction
- Unsupported image formats may cause processing errors
- Network timeout if image URL is slow to fetch
- Payment failure if USDC balance is insufficient for the $0.15 per call fee

## 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 OCR-extracted text found in the provided image, powered by the MiniMax-M3 428B multimodal model. The response includes the recognized text content parsed from the image at the supplied URL.

## 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-77dcff33/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
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