Convert image to text (perform OCR) in PHP? - rest7/api GitHub Wiki

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) in PHP using free API:

<?php
$url = 'http://server.com/image.png';
$data = json_decode(file_get_contents('http://api.rest7.com/v1/ocr.php?url=' . $url . '&format=txt'));

if (@$data->success !== 1)
{
    die('Failed');
}
$txt = file_get_contents($data->file);
file_put_contents('text.txt', $txt);