VIN OCR
Extract the Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) from an image using OCR
Ever needed to quickly identify a vehicle's VIN from an image? Whether it's for verifying vehicle details or tracking, the VIN OCR API allows you to extract the VIN from an image (either a URL or base64 string) using optical character recognition (OCR) and computer vision. This API is capable of recognizing VINs from a wide range of vehicles, ensuring accurate and detailed vehicle information retrieval.
This endpoint allows you to retrieve a vehicle's VIN.
Required attributes
- Name
key- Type
- string
- Description
Your CarsXE API key.
- Name
body- Type
- string
- Description
POST body that's a URL to an image or the base64 string of the image.
Response attributes
- Name
success- Type
- boolean
- Description
Whether the algorithm has been able to successfully analyze the VIN from the image.
- Name
vin- Type
- string
- Description
The extracted VIN number from the image.
- Name
confidence- Type
- number
- Description
The confidence score, which is a probability value (between 0 and 1) indicating how certain the algorithm is that the extracted VIN is correct.
- Name
message- Type
- string
- Description
String detailing error if any.
Frequently asked questions
Request
curl --location 'https://api.carsxe.com/v1/vinocr?key=CARSXE_API_KEY' \
--header 'Content-Type: text/plain' \
--data 'https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/5663423/30922082-64edb4fa-a3a8-11e7-873e-3fbcdce8ea3a.png'Response
{
"success": true,
"vin": "JHLRD77874C026456",
"box": {
"xmin": 257,
"xmax": 1673,
"ymin": 635,
"ymax": 793
},
"confidence": 0.9834251403808594,
"candidates": [
{
"vin": "JHLRD77874C026456",
"confidence": 0.9834251403808594,
"box": {
"xmin": 257,
"xmax": 1673,
"ymin": 635,
"ymax": 793
}
}
]
}