Calling UIPath OCR from postman

[Venu_S]

I have an ocr end point and an api key, how do i make a call from postman to submit a file and get the ocr output.

[postwick (Paul Ostwick)]

I don’t think the OCR endpoint is intended to be used as an external API, it’s for automation activities to use.

[Venu_S]

Thanks for the response @postwick , i was going through this documentation and its presented as a ‘public’ end point. Also, its just a rest call right and i have the api key to access it.

Document Understanding - Public endpoints

[Anil_G (Anil Gorthi)]

@Venu_S

If you have api key and end point as stated there it is public and can be used to get data but it can be used on in activities

If you need to use those api externally as service you can use it…that is via api through postman …but for that first you need du license and create an extrrnal app…the endpoints you need to hit and the steps to create application and permissions needed are outlined in the below link

Document Understanding - Public endpoints

Thw link is same as what you have given but if you scroll to the bottom you would see this info

Hope this helps

Cheers

[postwick (Paul Ostwick)]

@Venu_S

its just a rest call right

No, it probably isn’t. There’s a lot more to it than that.

[Venu_S]

Thanks @Anil_G , i did look at this but it talk more about onboarding an external application. and not realy the format of the input to the OCR, is that something that is available. i have been trying to see if there is a swagger end point also but cant seem to find it.

[Anil_G (Anil Gorthi)]

@Venu_S

It talks about the swagger and how to get it as well…

In the swagger you would have all the details

And also to use those endpoints it is mandatory to create an external applicationa nd get the appid and secret so it is also important

Just fyi…if you go to du page or ai center you eould get the option to see the swagger as well which is mentioned in the same link tgat is given above

Cheers