How to set ocr language in the example php script

OCR.space Free OCR API
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Here is a new PHP code snippet. The code is from an OCR.space user, posted here with permission:

Problem:

cURL call to API ocr.space with PHP not going through?

Answer:

Problems were:

  • do not use json_encode()
  • change content type to Content-Type:multipart/form-data
  • set quotation marks around "false" and "true" values.

This works now:

$imageurl = "https://...imageurl.jpg";

$data = array(
    "language" => "ger",
    "isOverlayRequired" => "false",
    "detectOrientation" => "true",
    "scale" => "true",
    "filetype" => 'JPG',
    "url" => $imageurl,
);

$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($ch, array(
    CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.ocr.space/parse/image",
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
    CURLOPT_POST => 1,
    CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array('Content-Type:multipart/form-data', 'apikey:apikey:MYAPIKEY'),
    CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => $data,
));

$result = curl_exec($ch);

curl_close($ch);

$result_array = json_decode($result);

if(!empty($result_array->ErrorMessage))
{
    // catch errors https://docs.mathpix.com/#errors
    echo 'Problem: '.$result_array->ErrorMessage[0];
}
else 
{
    // recognized text
    $ocrresult = $result_array->ParsedResults[0]->ParsedText;
}

See also this C# post “No file uploaded or URL provided” when calling ocr.space API