API Settings
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About OCR Engine Options
Select one or two OCR engines below. Each engine has different capabilities and performance characteristics.
About the models:
- Gemini 2.5 Pro: Higher accuracy, especially for handwritten text, can follow complex instructions, like parsing multiple species determinations. Can perform geolocation, search the internet to validate content, etc.
- Gemini 2.0 Flash: Fast processing with good accuracy for most specimens
- Gemini 1.5 Pro: Better at handwriting than Gemini 2.0 Flash, but will be deprecated in 2025, slower and more expensive than Gemini 2.0 Flash.
- Gemini 2.5 Flash: A bit disappointing at the moment. Handwriting performance seems worse than Gemini 2.0 Flash
- OCR Only: Extract text only (check box below)
OCR Engines (can select one or multiple):
Bypasses TextCollage and uses the uploaded image directly. Produces markdown files.
LLM Model for creating JSON:
Please use gemini-2.0-flash and reserve gemini-2.5-pro for the prompts that are optimized to take full advantage of its capabilities (e.g. SLTPvM_geolocate_flag_multispecimen.yaml).
SLTPvM_geolocate_flag_multispecimen.yaml will flag sheets that have more than one specimen (barcodes) and will automatically geolocate specimens that lack GPS coordinates in the label text
World Flora Online (WFO) Validation:
Enable taxonomic validation against the World Flora Online database for plant specimens. This adds botanical name verification and taxonomic information to the results.
Prompt Template:
Test with File Upload
Test with Image URL
Batch Process URLs
Upload a text file (.txt) with one URL per line or a CSV file (.csv) with URLs in a column.
Example CSV file format:
| url | description | category |
|---|---|---|
| https://example.com/image1.jpg | Specimen 1 | Category A |
| https://example.com/image2.jpg | Specimen 2 | Category B |
| https://example.com/image3.jpg | Specimen 3 | Category C |
Batch Process Local Images
Drop image files here or