Open Food Facts OCR API

Endpoints for optical character recognition on product labels.

Operations 1

GET /cgi/ingredients.pl OCR on Ingredients #

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OpenAPI Specification

open-food-facts-ocr-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Open Food Facts Open OCR API
  description: 'As a developer, the Open Food Facts API allows you to get information

    and contribute to the products database. You can create great apps to

    help people make better food choices and also provide data to enhance the database.


    **IMPORTANT**: Please read the API introduction before using this API.'
  termsOfService: https://world.openfoodfacts.org/terms-of-use
  contact:
    name: Open Food Facts
    url: https://slack.openfoodfacts.org/
    email: reuse@openfoodfacts.org
  license:
    name: 'data: ODbL'
    url: https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/summary/index.html
    x-identifier: ODbL-1.0
  version: '2'
servers:
- description: dev
  url: https://world.openfoodfacts.net
- description: prod
  url: https://world.openfoodfacts.org
- description: proxy (for doc purpose)
  url: http://localhost:8080
security:
- userAgentAuth: []
tags:
- name: OCR
  description: Endpoints for optical character recognition on product labels.
paths:
  /cgi/ingredients.pl:
    parameters: []
    get:
      summary: OCR on Ingredients
      operationId: get-cgi-ingredients.pl
      responses:
        '200':
          description: OK
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                title: ocr_on_product_response
                properties:
                  status:
                    type: integer
                    example: 1
      description: Open Food Facts uses optical character recognition (OCR) to retrieve nutritional data and other information from the product labels.
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/id'
      - name: code
        in: query
        description: Barcode of the product
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
          example: '4251105501381'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/process_image'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/ocr_engine'
      tags:
      - OCR
components:
  parameters:
    id:
      schema:
        type: string
        example: ingredients_en
      in: query
      name: id
      required: true
    ocr_engine:
      schema:
        type: string
        example: google_cloud_vision
      in: query
      name: ocr_engine
      required: true
    process_image:
      schema:
        type: string
        example: '1'
      in: query
      name: process_image
      required: true
  securitySchemes:
    cookieAuth:
      type: apiKey
      in: cookie
      name: session
      description: 'Session cookie containing user ID, username, and session token.

        The value is structured as: user_id&username&user_session&session_token

        e.g. "user_id&exampleuser&user_session&abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLM".

        The session token is obtained after successful login via the `/cgi/session.pl` endpoint.

        '
    userAgentAuth:
      description: Identification using the User-Agent header. This is recommended in all requests so that we can contact you if there are issues. If we cannot identify the source of problematic API queries, we may have to block them. User-Agent header in the format 'app_name/app_version (URL or contact info)'
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: User-Agent
externalDocs:
  description: '**IMPORTANT**: Please read the API introduction before using this API.

    '
  url: https://openfoodfacts.github.io/openfoodfacts-server/api/