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description: An introduction to OCR BigVision API Documentation.
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# Welcome

## About OCR API

Automate your repetitive tasks using our BigVision OCR as a Service API, whether it is a converting simple image-to-text job, or extracting values of certain documents, we can do it for you. Finish your tasks with the efficiency and speed you have never encountered before.&#x20;

OCR API helps the business to verify and validate their customer with their scanned offline document.

## First Step

* For an overview of what apps are, refer to OCR API
* To start making an app, refer to Endpoint.
* If you have any questions, [create a support ticket](https://wa.me/081213364902).

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## OCR API Solution

### Text Recognition

Text recognition can automate tedious data entry for credit cards, receipts, and business cards. With the Cloud-based API, you can also extract text from pictures of documents, which you can use to increase accessibility or translate documents. Apps can even keep track of real-world objects, such as by reading the numbers on trains.

{% content-ref url="analytics/text-recognition-image" %}
[text-recognition-image](analytics/text-recognition-image)
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### Text Similarity

This API is a semantic sentence similarity API optimized on short sentences. With this API you will be able to compare two sentences and get a score of their semantic similarity. It works even if the two sentences don't have any word in common.

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[text-similarity-image](analytics/text-similarity-image)
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### KTP Extract

Optical Character Recognition service to extract KTP (Indonesia Citizen ID Card) to minimize human error and auto categorized.

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[ktp-extract](analytics/ktp-extract)
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