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Re: Failed to use MathpixOCR JSON API with curl.

From: Jeremy Nicoll via curl-users <curl-users_at_cool.haxx.se>
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2021 10:44:58 +0100

On Wed, 9 Jun 2021, at 04:15, Hongyi Zhao via curl-users wrote:
> According to the instruction given on the MathpixOCR API official
> website here, <https://docs.mathpix.com/#request-parameters>, as shown
> below:
>
> curl -X POST https://api.mathpix.com/v3/text \
> -H 'app_id: YOUR_APP_ID' \
> -H 'app_key: YOUR_APP_KEY' \
> -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
> --data '{ "src": "data:image/jpeg;base64,'$(base64 -i limit.jpg)'" }'
>
> I use the following code with my own app_id and app_key to test the
> OCR accuracy of MathpixOCR:
>
> $ curl -x socks5://127.0.0.1:18888 -X POST
> https://api.mathpix.com/v3/latex -H 'app_id: my_app_id' -H
> 'app_key: my_app_key' -H 'Content-Type: application/json'
> --data '{ "url": "data:image/jpg;base64, '$(base64 -i
> schrodinger.png)'" }'
> {"error":"SyntaxError: Unexpected end of JSON

Does it matter that despite the webpage saying that the --data value
should start with "src", you used "url"?

Have you tried checking the syntax of your JSON parameters, either
at an online JSON unscrambling/formatting page, or in your own code?


> From my point of view, the test example
> of mine is exatly same with the official sample code.

It clearly is not. But I have no idea if the difference matters.


-- 
Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.
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Received on 2021-06-09