Restaurant Menu OCR API

Scan. Extract. Optimize. Veryfi's AI-powered Restaurant Menu OCR API instantly transforms restaurant menus into structured data with exceptional accuracy. Eliminate manual menu management and unlock powerful insights that drive revenue and customer satisfaction. Built for food delivery platforms, restaurant management systems, and hospitality solutions ready to automate operations and boost engagement.

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Restaurant Menu OCR API

Why Veryfi

Unlock a Wealth of Data in Restaurant Menus

Every restaurant menu contains dozens of critical data points that businesses desperately need—item names, prices, descriptions, categories, allergen information, nutritional details, and availability status—yet most organizations across the hospitality and food technology sectors still rely on painfully manual processes that consume 2-3 hours per menu digitization, create massive operational bottlenecks, and leave dangerous room for pricing errors and inventory mismatches. From food delivery platforms losing restaurant partnerships while waiting for manual menu updates, to POS system integrators struggling with multi-location chain onboarding, to market research firms chasing outdated competitor pricing data, the cost of manual restaurant menu processing extends far beyond wasted time—it directly impacts revenue accuracy, customer experience, and competitive positioning in an industry where menu changes happen daily.

Veryfi’s Restaurant Menu OCR API transforms this broken process by instantly extracting structured, actionable data from paper menus, digital images, and PDF documents with 99%+ accuracy, eliminating the need for manual data entry, phone calls to restaurant staff, and the endless back-and-forth that causes delivery delays and frustrated customers. Whether you’re processing hundreds of restaurant menu updates daily or thousands across franchise networks, our advanced machine learning technology scales effortlessly to turn restaurant menus into instant business intelligence, helping forward-thinking organizations across every vertical—from ghost kitchen operators ensuring real-time pricing synchronization to food analytics companies monitoring market trends—stop losing time and money to menu digitization delays and start gaining the competitive advantage that comes from automated, real-time restaurant menu data processing.

It’s Time to Build: Use Cases

Food Delivery Platforms

Stop losing restaurant partners to 3-day menu update delays. Manual menu digitization creates a 72-hour lag between restaurant updates and live listings, causing order failures and angry customers. Veryfi’s API instantly converts paper menus, PDFs, and photos into structured data, syncing menu changes in real-time across all platforms and eliminating the bottleneck that costs you restaurant partnerships.
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POS System Integrators

Restaurant onboarding shouldn’t take 2 weeks per location. Manual menu entry delays POS deployments and frustrates restaurant owners eager to start processing orders. Veryfi’s API instantly digitizes existing menus into your POS format, reducing integration time from weeks to hours and scaling your restaurant onboarding capacity by 10x.
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Market Research Companies

Chasing competitor pricing data with manual menu collection costs you deals and accuracy. By the time your team manually extracts menu data from 50+ restaurants, prices have already changed twice. Veryfi’s API automatically processes competitor menus in seconds, delivering real-time pricing intelligence that keeps your restaurant clients ahead of market trends.
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Multi-Location Restaurant Chains

Managing menu consistency across 100+ locations with manual processes guarantees pricing errors and customer complaints. Different locations, different prices, different items – chaos that damages brand reputation. Veryfi’s API instantly standardizes menu data across all locations, ensuring pricing consistency and enabling centralized menu management at scale.

Ghost Kitchen Operators

Multiple virtual brands with different menus create operational nightmares and pricing sync errors across delivery platforms. Manual menu management for 5+ brands means constant pricing discrepancies and order fulfillment failures. Veryfi’s API maintains real-time menu synchronization across all virtual brands and platforms, eliminating pricing errors that kill customer trust.
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Food Safety & Compliance

Manual allergen tracking from restaurant menus puts customers at risk and your organization in legal jeopardy. Missing or incorrect allergen information in menu databases causes dangerous customer reactions and regulatory violations. Veryfi’s API automatically extracts allergen data, ingredient lists, and nutritional information, ensuring compliance and customer safety across all restaurant partners.
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Restaurant Technology Platforms

Your SaaS platform’s growth is limited by manual menu onboarding that takes days per restaurant client. Every new restaurant signup requires hours of menu data entry, creating onboarding bottlenecks that hurt your customer acquisition and retention. Veryfi’s API enables instant menu import, transforming restaurant onboarding from a manual nightmare into an automated competitive advantage.

Food Analytics Companies

Competitive restaurant intelligence requires processing thousands of menus monthly – impossible with manual data collection. Market trend analysis, pricing studies, and menu innovation research depend on massive menu datasets that take months to compile manually. Veryfi’s API processes restaurant menus at scale, delivering the comprehensive food industry data your clients need for strategic decision-making.
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Franchise Management Systems

Ensuring brand consistency across 500+ franchise locations with manual menu auditing is impossible and expensive. Franchise violations, pricing discrepancies, and unauthorized menu items damage brand reputation and create legal liability. Veryfi’s API automatically monitors franchise menu compliance, instantly flagging violations and ensuring brand standards across your entire network.

+ Custom Menu Processing Solutions

Every business has unique menu digitization challenges. Whether you’re processing menus for inventory management, nutritional analysis, translation services, or specialized compliance requirements, Veryfi’s API can be customized for your specific workflow. Reach out to [email protected] and let’s automate your restaurant menu processing needs.
Request: Restaurant Menu Data Extraction
import requests
url = "https://api.veryfi.com/api/v8/partner/any-documents"
headers = {
'CLIENT-ID': '<API_KEY_VALUE>',
'AUTHORIZATION': '<API_KEY_VALUE>'
}
payload = {'file_url': 'https://cdn…'}
response = requests.post(url, headers=headers, data=payload)
print(response.json())
Response: Structured JSON
{
“restaurant_name”: “Restaurant Inc.”,
“created_date”: “2025-04-22 18:16:38”,
“id”: 5949754,
“menu_items”: [
{
“dish_name”: “Garlic Bread”,
“dish_price”: 5,
“menu_section”: “Appetizers”
},
{
“dish_name”: “Grilled Salmon”,
“dish_price”: 18,
“menu_section”: “Main Courses”
},
{
“dish_name”: “Tiramisu”,
“dish_price”: 6,
“menu_section”: “Desserts”
}
]
}

Restaurant Menu OCR API

Ship restaurant menu parsing in minutes, not months. Veryfi’s Restaurant Menu OCR API transforms messy menu images into clean, structured data with just a few lines of code.

✓ Production-ready AI – Pre-trained LLM that actually works on real menus
✓ SDKs for every stack – Launch faster in Python, Node.js, PHP, and more
✓ Visual dashboard – Test, tweak, and manage everything without touching code

Stop wrestling with menu layouts, fonts, and formatting quirks. Start building the features your users actually want.

Ready to ship? Get your API key and be processing menus in under 5 minutes.

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Restaurant Menu – Fields Supported

  • Restaurant Information
    • Restaurant Name: Restaurant Inc.
    • Restaurant Address: Not provided
    • Phone Number: Not provided
    • Operation Hours: Not provided
  • Menu Items
    • menu_items: [
    •   {
    •     dish_name: Garlic Bread,
    •     dish_price: 5,
    •     menu_section: Appetizers,
    •     dish_description: null
    •   },
    •   {
    •     dish_name: Bruschetta,
    •     dish_price: 7,
    •     menu_section: Appetizers,
    •     dish_description: null
    •   },
    •   {
    •     dish_name: Stuffed Mushrooms,
    •     dish_price: 8,
    •     menu_section: Appetizers,
    •     dish_description: null
    •   },
    •   {
    •     dish_name: Caesar Salad,
    •     dish_price: 9,
    •     menu_section: Salads,
    •     dish_description: null
    •   },
    •   {
    •     dish_name: Greek Salad,
    •     dish_price: 10,
    •     menu_section: Salads,
    •     dish_description: null
    •   },
    •   {
    •     dish_name: Caprese Salad,
    •     dish_price: 9,
    •     menu_section: Salads,
    •     dish_description: null
    •   },
    •   {
    •     dish_name: Grilled Salmon,
    •     dish_price: 18,
    •     menu_section: Main Courses,
    •     dish_description: null
    •   },
    •   {
    •     dish_name: Spaghetti Carbonara,
    •     dish_price: 15,
    •     menu_section: Main Courses,
    •     dish_description: null
    •   },
    •   {
    •     dish_name: Chicken Parmesan,
    •     dish_price: 17,
    •     menu_section: Main Courses,
    •     dish_description: null
    •   },
    •   {
    •     dish_name: Chocolate Lava Cake,
    •     dish_price: 7,
    •     menu_section: Desserts,
    •     dish_description: null
    •   },
    •   {
    •     dish_name: Tiramisu,
    •     dish_price: 6,
    •     menu_section: Desserts,
    •     dish_description: null
    •   },
    •   {
    •     dish_name: Cheesecake,
    •     dish_price: 6,
    •     menu_section: Desserts,
    •     dish_description: null
    •   }
    • ]
  • Document Metadata
    • Document ID: 5949754
    • Created Date: 2025-04-22 18:16:38
    • Updated Date: 2025-04-22 18:16:38
    • External ID: (user defined)
  • Image Information
    • Image URL: …/restaurant-menu/img.png
    • Thumbnail URL: …/restaurant-menu/img.png
    • OCR Score: 0.95 (95%)
    • Page Width: 1200 pixels
    • Page Height: 1691 pixels

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