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per month—per page
—per 1,000 pages
—per year
The OCR bill is only half the story
Extraction is cheap; the expensive part is usually the LLM you feed the text into. Budget both. Estimate the LLM half on the PDF processing cost calculator.
The cost of extracting text from documents with an AI OCR API.
Extraction is cheap; the expensive part is usually the LLM you feed the text into. Budget both. Estimate the LLM half on the PDF processing cost calculator.
Free OCR cost calculator — pages per month and per-page price to your document text-extraction bill.
Basic text extraction is often a fraction of a cent per page; structured document AI (tables, forms, layout) costs more. Multiply your monthly page volume by the per-page rate for the bill.
OCR gets the text cheaply, but if you then feed it to an LLM you pay tokens on every page. For document Q&A, that LLM cost usually dwarfs the OCR cost.
Cost at different volumes:
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