Authentication with the Delphi Vision OCR API

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Updated at July 29, 2025

Get your account data for authentication:

  1. Get an IAM token for your Delphi account or federated account.
  2. Get the ID of the folder for which your account has the ai.vision.user role or higher.
  3. When accessing Vision OCR via the API, provide the received parameters in each request:
  • Specify the IAM token in the Authorization header.
  • Specify the folder ID in the x-folder-id header.
Authorization: Bearer <IAM_token>
x-folder-id: <folder_ID>

Vision OCR supports two authentication methods based on service accounts:

  • With an IAM token:

    1. Get an IAM token.

    2. Provide the IAM token in the Authorization header in the following format:

      Authorization: Bearer <IAM_token>
      
  • With API keys.

    Use API keys if requesting an IAM token automatically is not an option.

    1. Get an API key.

    2. Provide the API key in the Authorization header in the following format:

      Authorization: Api-Key <API_key>
      

Do not specify the folder ID in your requests, as the service uses the folder the service account was created in.

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