# OCR extract text from image

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**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X\
**Tags:** beginner\
**Created:** [April 11, 2025, 4:06pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/ocr-extract-text-from-image/3733684 "2025-04-11T16:06:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![quiqulp2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ac91a4/32.png) [@quiqulp2](https://community.thunkable.com/u/quiqulp2)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2025, 4:06pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/ocr-extract-text-from-image/3733684/1 "2025-04-11T16:06:24Z")

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Hello, I need to create an application that’s quite simple to describe: two buttons, each taking a picture of images containing text. The text from each image must be extracted, and then the app should indicate whether the extracted texts match or not. Is it possible to do this with Thunkable? Thank you very much.

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**Author:** ![matt\_conroy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/matt_conroy/32/150843_2.png) [@matt\_conroy](https://community.thunkable.com/u/matt_conroy)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2025, 6:07pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/ocr-extract-text-from-image/3733684/2 "2025-04-11T18:07:09Z")

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Hi quiqulp2, welcome to Thunkable! 🎉

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Always be sure to search our Forums before posting, this topic has many previous posts you can use for guidance.  
[https://community.thunkable.com/search?q=OCR](https://community.thunkable.com/search?q=OCR)

In short, yes, this can be done via API. Are you familiar with API calls? They are a fairly advanced topic so if you are new, this may be quite complicated.

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**Author:** ![quiqulp2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ac91a4/32.png) [@quiqulp2](https://community.thunkable.com/u/quiqulp2)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2025, 6:37pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/ocr-extract-text-from-image/3733684/3 "2025-04-11T18:37:51Z")

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![pieza2](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/3/a/3afa9d39edf63d8165e8562991ec4c879bb617d2.jpeg)  
 ![pieza](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/b/0/b0fefe4da8653998cbc3b3dba80a3bc46360d6d4.jpeg)  
Hello matt, first of all thanks for your reply. i wanted to try with these two images. My idea is to check if they are identical by extracting text from them. It is possible with Thunkable? any idea/ suggestion? i am stucked…

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**Author:** ![matt\_conroy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/matt_conroy/32/150843_2.png) [@matt\_conroy](https://community.thunkable.com/u/matt_conroy)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2025, 6:44pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/ocr-extract-text-from-image/3733684/4 "2025-04-11T18:44:08Z")

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I don’t know enough about the APIs involved–you’d want to search the forums for previous topics and get an idea of how those Creators did their apps.

If you can grab the data from the API, it may be as simple as then comparing the response. Do the numbers in Image A match what is in Image B. If they do, do this. If they don’t, do something else.

Two good docs to check out in this likely case:

> **[Web APIs Blocks | Thunkable Docs](https://docs.thunkable.com/blocks/advanced-app-features/web-api)**

> **[Control Blocks | Thunkable Docs](https://docs.thunkable.com/blocks/blocks/control#if-do-and-if-do-else)**

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/0/f/0f59f292712368bce16ff80133ae10de8a6f27e8.png) [@system](https://community.thunkable.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2025, 6:44pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/ocr-extract-text-from-image/3733684/5 "2025-07-10T18:44:45Z")

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