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title: "Read text from a picture · OpenVibe.Vision"
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# Read text from a picture · OpenVibe.Vision

HTML: [Read text from a picture · OpenVibe.Vision](https://openvibe.vision/read)

Read · local first

# Read the words in a picture

Receipts, signs, screenshots and labels: the words come back in reading order. Read on this host, free, and the picture is not stored.

  Choose a picture to read

or drop or paste one · read as soon as it is chosen

Try an example

[Ask about it instead](/ask)

 Language and AI fallback 

 Language 

 If the local reader finds no text, ask OpenVibe.AI (needs a sign-in) 

The fallback runs only after the local pass, and only for a signed-in account.

   Use this from the API

Food calls `POST /api/v1/receipt` for store, line items and total. Plain text is `POST /api/v1/ocr`, with `fallback=1` only when a signed-in person asks for it.