Guides and pricing comparisons on OCR, AI document data extraction, and intelligent document processing for teams evaluating tools.
PaddleOCR-VL-1.6 leads table reconstruction at 94.76 TEDS. Among commercial APIs, the cheaper Gemini tier beats the expensive one, and asking for a table costs six to twenty times what the text costs.
Read articleGoogle's Invoice parser bills $0.10 per count, and a count is up to ten pages. Form Parser bills $0.03 a page. The crossover lands between three and four pages, which means most US teams processing short invoices are on the more expensive processor.
Read articleA Textract bill that beats its estimate is nearly always a meter problem, not a volume problem. Here are the five mechanics behind it, computed from Amazon's own price list file, and how to spot each one in Cost Explorer.
Read articleThere is no product called Azure OCR. There are two services that read text on two different meters, plus a legacy API Microsoft warns against, and the cheapest published Azure text rate belongs to the one you should not build on.
Read articleThe two models sit next to each other in the Azure docs and differ by 6.7 times in price. Read returns text, Layout adds tables and markdown, and the choice looks obvious until you find the one capability that exists only on the cheap model.
Read articleTextract detects tables well and hands you none of them as a spreadsheet. It returns a graph of Block objects, and AWS answers the CSV question with a code sample. Here is what the response really contains, the one documented behavior that quietly ruins most exports, and what the TABLES feature costs against plain text.
Read articleMarkItDown is the default recommendation for turning documents into markdown for LLMs, and it works beautifully until someone hands you a scan. Here is exactly what the shipped code does with a PDF, what its README means by OCR, and what it costs to fix.
Read articleMistral built its reputation on open weights, so teams assume the OCR model is downloadable too. It is not. Here is what Mistral actually publishes, why the weights matter for data residency and cost, and the break-even volume where self-hosting a document model finally wins.
Read articleThey are the same service. Microsoft renamed Azure Form Recognizer to Azure AI Document Intelligence in July 2023, but the API redesign that came with v3.0 did change real things in your code: bounding boxes became polygons, every endpoint moved under documentModels, and custom models now expire.
Read articleA Document Transaction is the unit Adobe bills PDF Services API in. Extract gets 5 pages per transaction, OCR gets 50, and Accessibility Auto-Tag burns 10 per single page. Here is exactly how the counting works.
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