Detect and unskew a photo of a document

https://api.cloudmersive.com/ocr/preprocessing/image/unskew

Detect and unskew a photo of a document (e.g. taken on a cell phone) into a perfectly square image. Great for document scanning applications; once unskewed, this image is perfect for converting to PDF using the Convert API or optical character recognition using the OCR API.

Access Token Required: API Key

Responses

{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "id": "abc123",
    "created_at": "2025-01-01T00:00:00Z"
  }
}

{
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "VALIDATION_ERROR",
    "message": "Invalid request parameters"
  }
}

Language

CredentialsAPI KEY

API Key

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cURL Request

curl --request POST \
     --url 'https://api.cloudmersive.com/ocr/preprocessing/image/unskew' \
     --header 'accept: application/json' \
     --header 'content-type: application/json'

Response

{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "id": "abc123",
    "created_at": "2025-01-01T00:00:00Z"
  }
}

POST