Alibaba OCR

Service overview

What is Alibaba OCR?

Alibaba Cloud OCR specializes in real-world text from shipping labels, packages, IDs, signage, and handwritten notes — across 75+ scene-specific endpoints. Strong on East Asian scripts.

Endpoints

• POST/api/ocr/general

  General-purpose OCR on a single image.

  $0.0015 / img
• POST/api/ocr/express-package

  Extract recipient and tracking from a shipping label.

  $0.003 / img

FAQ

Questions agents ask about Alibaba OCR

• Does it require an API key?+

  No. Robots pay per request via x402 or pay.sh — no signup, no key, no rate limits beyond solvency.

• How does payment work?+

  Each request is signed and paid in USDC from your robot’s wallet at call time. The catalog gateway settles and forwards.

• How deterministic are responses?+

  Depends on the upstream service. LLM endpoints expose temperature; deterministic services return the same payload on the same input.

• What happens if payment fails?+

  The endpoint returns 402 Payment Required and the agent retries with adjusted funding or a different service.

• What if dynamic pricing changes?+

  The 402 response carries the current price. Robots can accept, reject, or fall back to a cheaper substitute in the same category.