* * * TEXTRACT ALTERNATIVE * * *
An AWS Textract Alternative.
Textract charges $1.50 per 1,000 pages for text — and about $15 per 1,000 when you need table structure. PennyOCR returns markdown with tables included at $0.75 per 1,000, with prepaid billing and no IAM ceremony. For plain text-and-tables pipelines, that's a 2–20× cost cut.
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=@invoice.pdf"
# $0.75 per 1,000 pages, first 100 free02 / USE CASES
WHY PEOPLE SWITCH.
TABLES INCLUDED
Textract Tables is a separate ~$15/1k feature. Our markdown carries the tables at no extra charge.
NO AWS CEREMONY
No IAM roles, no SDK config, no console safari. One key, one endpoint.
PREDICTABLE BILLS
Prepaid credits with a hard 402 stop — no surprise line item on next month's AWS bill.
WHEN TEXTRACT WINS
Forms/Queries key-value extraction, AWS-native compliance scopes, or S3-triggered pipelines you already run. Legit reasons to stay.
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%
SEE THE FULL COMPARISON?
Side-by-side table at pennyocr.com/vs/pennyocr-vs-aws-textract.
DO YOU HAVE FORMS/QUERIES?
Not yet — structured field extraction is on the roadmap. Markdown plus your own parsing covers most invoice/receipt pipelines today.
ACCURACY PROOF?
Our measured benchmark is public (99.5% character accuracy incl. degraded scans, 100% price recall) and the free tier exists so you can verify on your documents.
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