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import requests
import base64

url = "https://app.nanonets.com/api/v2/OCR/FullText"

payload={'urls': ['MY_IMAGE_URL']}
files=[
  ('file',('FILE_NAME',open('FILE_PATH','rb'),'application/pdf'))
]
headers = {}

response = requests.request("POST", url, headers=headers, data=payload, files=files, auth=requests.auth.HTTPBasicAuth('REPLACE_API_KEY', ''))

print(response.text)

var axios = require('axios');
var FormData = require('form-data');
var fs = require('fs');
var data = new FormData();
data.apend('urls','FILE_URL')
data.append('file', fs.createReadStream('FILE_PATH'));

var config = {
  method: 'post',
  url: 'https://app.nanonets.com/api/v2/OCR/FullText',
  headers: { 
    'Authorization': 'Basic ' + Buffer.from("REPLACE_API_KEY" + ":").toString('base64'), 
    ...data.getHeaders()
  },
  data : data
};

axios(config)
.then(function (response) {
  console.log(JSON.stringify(response.data));
})
.catch(function (error) {
  console.log(error);
});

var axios = require('axios');
var FormData = require('form-data');
var fs = require('fs');
var data = new FormData();
data.apend('urls','FILE_URL')
data.append('file', fs.createReadStream('FILE_PATH'));

var config = {
  method: 'post',
  url: 'https://app.nanonets.com/api/v2/OCR/FullText',
  headers: { 
    'Authorization': 'Basic ' + Buffer.from("REPLACE_API_KEY" + ":").toString('base64'), 
    ...data.getHeaders()
  },
  data : data
};

axios(config)
.then(function (response) {
  console.log(JSON.stringify(response.data));
})
.catch(function (error) {
  console.log(error);
});

var client = new RestClient("https://app.nanonets.com/api/v2/OCR/FullText");
client.Timeout = -1;
var request = new RestRequest(Method.POST);
request.AddHeader("Authorization", "Basic " + Convert.ToBase64String(Encoding.Default.GetBytes("REPLACE_YOUR_API_KEY:")));
request.AddFile("file", "FILE_PATH");
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);
Console.WriteLine(response.Content); 

curl --location --request POST 'https://app.nanonets.com/api/v2/OCR/FullText' \
-u 'REPLACE_API_KEY:' \
--form 'file=@"FILE_PATH"' 

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