README.md

FREE OCR

A Python package to perform OCR for free.

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Installation

pip install free_ocr

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Usage

from free_ocr import ocr

api_key = "your-together-ai-api-key"  # Together AI API key
file_path = "./trader-joes-receipt.jpg"  # path to your image

markdown = ocr(file_path, api_key=api_key)
print(markdown)

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Original Resources

This package is based on the free Llama 3.2 endpoint from Together AI, which parses images and returns Markdown content.

• Web Llama OCR demo: LlamaOCR.com

• llama-OCR Official Repo: github.com/Nutlope/llama-ocr