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API Guidelines

• The READ API can be used to "read" handwritten or machine-printed text data from an image and return the digitized text.
• Image size restrictions: Image size (width * height) limit: 100,000 pixels
• Image formats: Accepted image formats are jpeg, jpg, gif, png
• The public API Demo only supports 1 request per second and 1,000 requests per day
• API timeout: 30 seconds
• Character limit: The max number of characters extracted from the supplied image is 1024 characters
• Casing: The response extracted text will be in lower case. The READ engine is case agnostic.
• Vertical text: The API doesn't rotate or align the image and cannot read vertical text.
• Text skewing: The underlying machine learning model that the API uses was trained against +/- 5 degrees of text skewing to help ensure accurate transcriptions.
• Storage: The API doesn't store/save the supplied images.
• Character set: The API can transcribe numeric and alphanumeric characters, it cannot transcribe accents or roman numerals.
• Training: No training is necessary by consull training is done offline based on a dataset curated by Vidado.