diff --git a/docs/api.md b/docs/api.md
index 7cfb1812f..018f71260 100644
--- a/docs/api.md
+++ b/docs/api.md
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ Figures out what words are in `image`, where the words are in `image`, etc.
 
 - `image` see [Image Format](./image-format.md) for more details.
 - `options` a object of customized options
-  - `rectangles` an array of objects to specify the regions you want to recognized in the image, each object should contain top, left, width and height, see example below.
+  - `rectangle` an object to specify the regions you want to recognized in the image, should contain top, left, width and height, see example below.
 - `jobId` Please see details above
 
 **Output:**
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ const { createWorker } = Tesseract;
   await worker.loadLanguage('eng');
   await worker.initialize('eng');
   const { data: { text } } = await worker.recognize(image, {
-    rectangles: [{ top: 0, left: 0, width: 100, height: 100 }],
+    rectangle: { top: 0, left: 0, width: 100, height: 100 },
   });
   console.log(text);
 })();