Power Meter and Water Meter OCR

Reads the number off a photograph of an electricity or water meter and returns it as digits.

POST/v3/store/smart-city/power-meter-and-water-meter/file

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• Price1 ICper request
• Served92.8Kcalls

• v2.0
• Active

Input

OutputPOST /v3/store/smart-city/power-meter-and-water-meter/file

infer_time

0.16

label

024963

message

success

status

200

Every field, under ResponseOther endpoints: /base64 see Request

Request

curl -X POST https://api.iapp.co.th/v3/store/smart-city/power-meter-and-water-meter/file \
  -H "apikey: YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -F "file=@meter.jpg"

Response

200OK. The fields are explained under Response.

{
    "infer_time": 0.16,
    "label": "024963",
    "message": "success",
    "status": 200
}

Request

multipart/form-data to /file, or the image as Base64 to /base64. 1 IC per request.

Headers

apikeystringrequired

Your API key, created under API Keys in the control panel.

Body

filefilerequired

A clear photograph of the meter face.

Endpoint	Takes
/v3/store/smart-city/power-meter-and-water-meter/file	The file
/v3/store/smart-city/power-meter-and-water-meter/base64	The image as Base64

The legacy paths /meter-number-ocr, …/file and …/base64 answer at the same price.

Response

label is the reading as a string of digits; the response also carries infer_time in seconds, message and status.

label is the reading as a string of digits; the response also carries infer_time in seconds, message and status.

Details

Measured

Limits

• Round and rectangular meter faces; a sharp, straight-on photograph reads best.

Data handling

Images are processed in memory and not kept after the response. The service is GDPR and PDPA compliant.