Free OCR API seems down

OCR.space Free OCR API
1

Just FYI, tried both ocr.space and free API:

ocrParsedResult: 
 { ParsedResults: [],
  OCRExitCode: 6,
  IsErroredOnProcessing: true,
  ErrorMessage: [ 'Timed out waiting for results' ],
  ProcessingTimeInMilliseconds: '34419' }
2

Maybe the free OCR API was overloaded during your test. The online ocr page uses the free OCR API, too (Technically it is just a front-end for the OCR API).

Currently all works fine, see http://status.ocr.space/ and OCR.Space API Status

3

That’s possible, but when it was down I checked the status page and it was showing everything was UP, so just thought I’d report it. What is the timeout for the status page anyway? Thanks!

4

Alright seems that it’s down again but when I check the status page it still says UP. However, looking at it closely, the status page hasn’t been updated for over 10 minutes, perhaps that’s the issue, thanks!

5

The free OCR API has sometimes short downtimes due to overload/too many users. In the PRO API this issue does not happen (many more servers and capacity).

The status update updates every 10 minutes.

6

I see, the status page says that it updates every 5 minutes, perhaps you should update that then, thanks!

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7

My mistake, the refresh used to be 10 minutes. But meanwhile the team lowered it to 5 minutes :slight_smile:

8

I see, so yeah when I reported the issue the status page was not up-to-date. Perhaps that’s something you guys can look into, thanks!