# Chronicling America OCR API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/chroniclingamerica/chroniclingamerica-ocr-api/  
**Provider:** Chronicling America — https://apis.io/providers/chroniclingamerica/  
**Base URL:** https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov  
**Documentation:** https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/about/api/

Chronicling America OCR API is one of 6 APIs that [Chronicling America](https://apis.io/providers/chroniclingamerica/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. Tagged areas include OCR. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.

Endpoints for retrieving OCR text from digitized newspaper pages.

## Machine-readable artifacts (4)

- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/chroniclingamerica/refs/heads/main/openapi/chroniclingamerica-ocr-api-openapi.yml
- **Documentation** — https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/about/api/
- **TermsOfService** — https://www.loc.gov/legal/
- **PrivacyPolicy** — https://www.loc.gov/legal/privacy-policy/

## Other Chronicling America APIs (5)

- [Chronicling America Batches API](https://apis.io/apis/chroniclingamerica/chroniclingamerica-batches-api/)
- [Chronicling America Issues API](https://apis.io/apis/chroniclingamerica/chroniclingamerica-issues-api/)
- [Chronicling America Pages API](https://apis.io/apis/chroniclingamerica/chroniclingamerica-pages-api/)
- [Chronicling America Search API](https://apis.io/apis/chroniclingamerica/chroniclingamerica-search-api/)
- [Chronicling America Titles API](https://apis.io/apis/chroniclingamerica/chroniclingamerica-titles-api/)

## Tags

OCR

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/chroniclingamerica/chroniclingamerica-ocr-api/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/chroniclingamerica/.