Adobe Creative Suite OCR API

Apply optical character recognition to scanned PDFs

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adobe-creative-suite-ocr-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: Adobe Creative Suite Adobe Firefly Accessibility OCR API
  description: The Adobe Firefly API provides access to Adobe's generative AI capabilities for creating and editing images, vectors, and video from natural language prompts. Built on Adobe's Firefly family of creative generative models, which are trained on licensed and public domain content. Supports text-to-image generation, generative fill, generative expand, generating similar images, object compositing, and video generation. All generation operations are asynchronous.
  version: 3.0.0
  termsOfService: https://www.adobe.com/legal/terms.html
  contact:
    name: Adobe Developer Support
    url: https://developer.adobe.com/support/
  license:
    name: Adobe Developer Terms
    url: https://www.adobe.com/legal/developer-terms.html
servers:
- url: https://firefly-api.adobe.io/v3
  description: Adobe Firefly API v3 production server
security:
- bearerAuth: []
tags:
- name: OCR
  description: Apply optical character recognition to scanned PDFs
paths:
  /operation/ocr:
    post:
      operationId: ocrPDF
      summary: Adobe Creative Suite OCR PDF
      description: Applies optical character recognition (OCR) to a scanned or image-based PDF, making the text content searchable and selectable. Supports multiple locales for improved recognition accuracy with non-English documents.
      tags:
      - OCR
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/OCRRequest'
      responses:
        '201':
          description: OCR operation accepted
          headers:
            Location:
              description: URL to poll for operation status
              schema:
                type: string
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/OperationSubmitted'
        '400':
          description: Bad request - invalid asset reference or locale
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
        '401':
          description: Unauthorized - invalid or missing bearer token
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
      x-microcks-operation:
        delay: 0
        dispatcher: FALLBACK
components:
  schemas:
    OperationSubmitted:
      type: object
      description: Response returned when an operation has been accepted
      properties:
        jobID:
          type: string
          description: Unique identifier for the submitted operation job
          example: urn:aaid:AS:UE1:operation:abc123
    OCRRequest:
      type: object
      description: Request body for applying OCR to a PDF
      required:
      - assetID
      properties:
        assetID:
          type: string
          description: Asset ID of the scanned PDF to OCR
          example: urn:aaid:AS:UE1:23c30ee0-2e4d-46d6-87f2-087832fca718
        ocrLang:
          type: string
          description: BCP 47 locale for OCR language model selection
          example: en-US
    ErrorResponse:
      type: object
      description: Standard error response
      properties:
        code:
          type: string
          description: Machine-readable error code
          example: example_value
        message:
          type: string
          description: Human-readable error message
          example: example_value
        requestId:
          type: string
          description: Unique identifier for the failed request
          example: asset_abc123
  securitySchemes:
    bearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      bearerFormat: JWT
      description: OAuth 2.0 access token obtained from Adobe IMS