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Solve image captcha

Post an image body and receive text from it. Text can only contain digits, letters, special characters and a space. GIF animations are supported, up to 500kb. Custom captchas like "find a cat in this series of images and enter its number" are not supported.

Task object

PropertyTypeRequiredDefault valuePurpose
typeStringYesImageToTextTaskDefines the type of task.
bodyStringYesFile body encoded in base64. Make sure to send it without line breaks. Do not include 'data:image/png,' or similar tags, only clean base64!
phraseBooleanNofalse
caseBooleanNotrue
numericIntegerNo0
mathBooleanNofalse
minLengthIntegerNo0
maxLengthIntegerNo0
commentStringNoAdditional comments for workers like "enter red text". The result is not guaranteed and is totally up to the worker.
websiteURLStringNoOptional parameter to distinguish source of image captchas in spending statistics.

Request example

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#pip3 install anticaptchaofficial

from anticaptchaofficial.imagecaptcha import *

solver = imagecaptcha()
solver.set_verbose(1)
solver.set_key("YOUR_API_KEY_HERE")

# Specify softId to earn 10% commission with your app.
# Get your softId here: https://anti-captcha.com/clients/tools/devcenter
solver.set_soft_id(0)

captcha_text = solver.solve_and_return_solution("captcha.jpeg")
if captcha_text != 0:
    print "captcha text "+captcha_text
else:
    print "task finished with error "+solver.error_code

Task solution object

PropertyTypePurpose
textStringText from image captcha
urlStringWeb address where we'll store the captcha for the next 24 hours, after which it will be removed.

Response example

{
    "errorId":0,
    "status":"ready",
    "solution":
    {
        "text":"deditur",
        "url":"http://61.39.233.233/1/147220556452507.jpg"
    },
    "cost":"0.000700",
    "ip":"46.98.54.221",
    "createTime":1472205564,
    "endTime":1472205570,
    "solveCount":"0"
}