SDK Overview

LeapOCR provides official SDKs for popular programming languages, each designed to provide idiomatic APIs and excellent developer experience.

Choose Your SDK

JavaScript/TypeScript

Full type safety for Node.js and browsers

Python

Async-first client with complete type hints

Go

Type-safe client with idiomatic Go API

REST API

Direct HTTP API access for any language

Quick Start Comparison

JavaScript/TypeScript

import { LeapOCR } from "leapocr";

const client = new LeapOCR({ apiKey: process.env.LEAPOCR_API_KEY });
const job = await client.ocr.processURL("https://example.com/doc.pdf");
const result = await client.ocr.waitUntilDone(job.jobId);

Python

import asyncio
from leapocr import LeapOCR, ProcessOptions, Format

async def main():
    async with LeapOCR(os.getenv("LEAPOCR_API_KEY")) as client:
        result = await client.ocr.process_and_wait(
            "https://example.com/doc.pdf"
        )

asyncio.run(main())

Go

import "github.com/leapocr/leapocr-go"

client, _ := ocr.New(os.Getenv("LEAPOCR_API_KEY"))
job, _ := client.ProcessURL(ctx, "https://example.com/doc.pdf")
result, _ := client.WaitUntilDone(ctx, job.ID)

REST API

curl -X POST https://api.leapocr.com/ocr/uploads/url \
  -H "X-API-Key: your-api-key" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"url": "https://example.com/doc.pdf"}'

Installation

JavaScript/TypeScript

npm install leapocr
# or
yarn add leapocr
# or
pnpm add leapocr

Python

pip install leapocr
# or
uv add leapocr

Go

go get github.com/leapocr/leapocr-go

Common Concepts

All SDKs share these core concepts. See the Concepts section for details:

Processing Models: Choose from standard-v1, english-pro-v1, or pro-v1
Output Formats: Structured, markdown, or per-page structured
Custom Schemas: Define extraction requirements

Next Steps

Choose your SDK from the cards above
Follow the SDK-specific installation guide
Review the Getting Started guide
Explore Common Use Cases

Open Source

All SDKs are open source and available on GitHub:

leapocr-js - JavaScript/TypeScript SDK
leapocr-python - Python SDK
leapocr-go - Go SDK

Contributions are welcome! See each repository's CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines.

SDK Overview

JavaScript/TypeScript

Python

Go

REST API

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