* * * OCR API FOR DEVELOPERS * * *
GREAT OCR
FOR PENNIES.
Send documents, get text back — 99.5% character accuracy on our public benchmark. No minimums, no sales calls, no surprises on your invoice.
1,333 PAGES PER DOLLAR · NO CREDIT CARD
PENNYOCR
YOUR FIRST BILL · DRAG TO RING IT UP
10,000 PAGES OCR'D$7.50
FIRST 100 PAGES FREE-$0.08
PLATFORM FEE$0.00
SEATS$0.00
SALES CALLS$0.00
TOTAL$7.43
$0.75 / 1,000 PAGES · THANK YOU
TRY IT RIGHT NOW — NO SIGNUP
3 FREE PAGES/DAY · PAGE 1 OF PDFS
NO FILE HANDY?
01 / THE API
ONE ENDPOINT.
POST a file, get JSON back. PDF, PNG, JPEG, WebP or TIFF — multipage PDFs billed per page. Done integrating before lunch.
curl https://api.pennyocr.com/v1/ocr \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $PENNYOCR_API_KEY" \
-F "file=@invoice.pdf"
# $0.75 per 1,000 pages, first 100 free02 / PRICE CHECK
HALF THE PRICE OF THE BIG CLOUDS.
Per 1,000 pages, public list prices, first tier. Same text out, half the invoice.
PENNYOCR$0.75
AWS TEXTRACT$1.50
GOOGLE CLOUD VISION$1.50
AZURE DOC INTELLIGENCE$1.50
YOU KEEP50%
03 / THE DETAILS
WHAT'S IN THE BAG.
Modern vision-language models on commodity GPUs — not 2009-era OCR. The savings go into the price.
FORMATS
PDF, PNG, JPEG, WebP, TIFF. Up to 50 MB and 500 pages per request.
HANDLES
Invoices, receipts, contracts, screenshots, skewed scans, tables, terrible handwriting — in English, Chinese and dozens of other languages.
BILLING
Pages × price, metered. No minimums, no seats, no platform fee, no "contact sales".
YOUR DATA
Processed and discarded. We don't train on it, and we don't keep your invoices.
IN YOUR BROWSER
PennyOCR Snip for Chrome — drag a box over anything on screen, get the text in your clipboard. Free on the Chrome Web Store.
SPEED
GPU-powered, about 3–5 seconds a page. Text back before your coffee cools.
04 / PRICING
$0.75/ 1,000 PAGES
Your first 100 pages are free, no card. Past that: prepaid credits that never expire. Key in your hands in two minutes.
GET YOUR API KEY →QUESTIONS? HELLO@PENNYOCR.COM — A HUMAN REPLIES FAST
05 / FAIR QUESTIONS
HOW IS IT THIS CHEAP?
Efficient open models, commodity GPUs, a ruthlessly simple stack, no enterprise sales team to feed.
IS THE ACCURACY GOOD?
99.5% character accuracy and 100% price recall on our public benchmark — methodology and per-document results included. Still skeptical? Try your worst document on the free tier and judge.
RATE LIMITS?
Generous by default. Doing something big? Email us — we like big.