* * * MATHPIX ALTERNATIVE * * *
A Mathpix Alternative.
Mathpix is genuinely the best at one thing: equations to LaTeX. If your corpus is math-heavy, pay them happily. If you're running ordinary documents — receipts, invoices, contracts, scans, tables — through Mathpix at specialist prices, PennyOCR does that job at $0.75 per 1,000 pages.
START FREE — 100 PAGES
$0.75 / 1,000 PAGES
1,333 PAGES PER DOLLAR · NO CREDIT CARD
01 / TRY IT
ONE ENDPOINT.
POST a file, get JSON back — the extracted text, per page and joined. PDF, PNG, JPEG, WebP or TIFF.
curl https://api.pennyocr.com/v1/ocr \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $PENNYOCR_API_KEY" \
-F "file=@scan.pdf"
# $0.75 per 1,000 pages, first 100 free02 / USE CASES
WHO SHOULD SWITCH.
BUSINESS DOCUMENTS
Receipts, invoices, contracts, forms — markdown with tables at commodity prices, not specialist prices.
MIXED CORPORA
Route the 2% math-heavy pages to Mathpix and the other 98% to us. Your finance team will notice.
SIMPLE INTEGRATION
One multipart POST, or point any OpenAI SDK at our /v1/chat/completions.
WHEN MATHPIX WINS
LaTeX output, chemistry, handwritten equations, scientific PDFs. That's their turf and they're excellent on it.
03 / PRICE CHECK
HALF THE PRICE OF THE BIG CLOUDS.
Per 1,000 pages, public list prices, first tier.
PENNYOCR$0.75
AWS TEXTRACT$1.50
GOOGLE CLOUD VISION$1.50
AZURE DOC INTELLIGENCE$1.50
YOU KEEP50%
DOES PENNYOCR HANDLE MATH AT ALL?
Inline math in ordinary documents comes through reasonably; dense equation pages are Mathpix territory. We'd rather tell you that than have you find out.
HOW DO PRICES ACTUALLY COMPARE?
Check Mathpix's current per-page conversion rates and put them next to $0.00075/page. For non-math documents the gap is usually 10–30×.
CAN I TRY BEFORE SWITCHING?
100 pages free every month, no card. Run your real documents through both.
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