Category · Web, data & documents
Document parsing, OCR and extraction APIs for AI agents
APIs that turn scans, PDFs, invoices and forms into text, tables and structured fields an agent can use. Compared on text accuracy, table structure, field extraction, page references, processing time and price per page.
Capability keys docs.parse · docs.ocr · docs.extract · docs.tables · docs.chunk · All tools
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| Compare | # | Tool | Category | Grade | Score | Agent rating | p95 | Context | Price / x402 | Auth | Where | Details |
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| 207 | Reducto API + MCPReducto · HTTP API | Documents | B | 63.2 | 4.0 (2) | n/a | n/a | $10 / 1k pages | API key | Hosted + local | ||
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Hosted parse, extract, split, classify and edit endpoints for PDFs, scans, spreadsheets and Office files, built on its own r-1 parsing model. Top strength Nine MCP tools with when-to-use descriptions, jobid:// chaining and URL results for large outputs Top weakness Zero data retention and DELETE endpoints only on Growth and above, Standard retention not stated |
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| 211 | Extend API + MCPExtend · HTTP API | Documents | B | 62.9 | 4.0 (2) | n/a | n/a | $25 / 1k pages | OAuth or key | Hosted | ||
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Hosted parse, extract, classify, split and PDF form-fill APIs with versioned processors, evaluation sets and workflows. Top strength Hosted MCP with OAuth scoped to workspaces and to test or production, and a tools filter with nine groups Top weakness Parse is billed on top of Extract, Split and Classify, so Performance Extract costs 5 credits a page |
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| 227 | Mindee APIMindee · HTTP API | Documents | C | 61.5 | 3.0 (2) | n/a | n/a | $44 / mo | API key | Hosted | ||
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Hosted extraction, classification, split, crop and raw-text OCR models that you define in the Mindee platform, then call by model ID through an async REST API. Top strength Extracted data kept 12 hours by default (1 to 24 configurable), deletable on fetch, source files never stored Top weakness Every call needs a model_id created in the web platform first |
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| 262 | LlamaParse API + MCPLlamaIndex · HTTP API | Documents | C | 59.6 | 3.5 (2) | n/a | n/a | $1.25 / 1k pages | OAuth or key | Hosted | ||
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LlamaIndex's hosted Parse, Extract, Classify, Split and Index APIs on one LlamaCloud key, billed in credits by tier. Top strength Free plan with 10,000 credits a month, no card Top weakness Breaking SDK changes shipped as minor releases (files.get renamed, classify v1 removed) |
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| 271 | Mistral OCR APIMistral AI · Model API | Documents | C | 59 | 4.5 (2) | n/a | n/a | $4 / 1k pages | API key | Hosted | ||
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Mistral's OCR API for extracting content from documents. Top strength Single synchronous call returns Markdown per page, no upload step for public URLs Top weakness OCR API at 99.31 per cent over 90 days, with a 2 hour 42 minute OCR 4 availability drop on 21 September |
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| 307 | Adobe PDF Services / PDF Extract APIAdobe · HTTP API | Documents | C | 56 | 3.5 (2) | n/a | n/a | Freemium | OAuth | Hosted | ||
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Adobe's REST API for reading and changing PDFs. Top strength Public OpenAPI 3.0.1 spec covering Extract, PDF to Markdown and 20 other operations Top weakness No published paid price, paid use goes through sales |
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| 315 | Veryfi API + MCPVeryfi · HTTP API | Documents | C | 55.4 | 3.0 (2) | n/a | n/a | $500 / mo | API key | Hosted + local | ||
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Receipt, invoice, bank statement, cheque and W-2 extraction API priced per document, with fraud checks as add-ons. Top strength Typed fields and line items for receipts, invoices, cheques, bank statements and tax forms Top weakness API outage on 29 September and degraded, incomplete extraction on 1 October |
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| 390 | Unstructured API + MCPUnstructured · HTTP API | Documents | D | 47 | 2.5 (2) | n/a | n/a | $15 / 1k pages | OAuth or key | Hosted | ||
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Unstructured Transform is a hosted parse and schema-extract API with an official hosted MCP server that partitions, chunks and embeds files. Top strength Apache-2.0 library partitions 45+ file types locally at no cost, tagged 11 times since 3 July Top weakness No status page, no published rate limits and no SLA |
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| 413 | Nanonets API + MCPNanonets · HTTP API | Documents | E | 42.6 | 2.0 (2) | n/a | n/a | $100 / mo | OAuth or key | Hosted | ||
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OCR and field extraction from PDFs, scans and images. Top strength Extraction API returns Markdown, CSV or JSON, with named fields or a JSON schema Top weakness No public changelog and no dated release in the last 90 days |
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| 430 | PDF.co API + MCPPDF.co (Artifex Software) · HTTP API | E | 38.2 | 3.0 (2) | n/a | n/a | $9.99 / mo | API key | Hosted + local | |||
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Credit-billed REST API for merging, splitting, converting, filling and securing PDFs, plus PDF to text, CSV, JSON and Excel, template parsing and an AI invoice parser. Top strength OpenAPI 3.0.1 document with structured error bodies for 400 to 454, plus llms.txt and Markdown docs Top weakness No status page. status.pdf.co redirects to betterstack.com/uptime |
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Indexed, not reviewed (3)
Listings sorted into this category from public catalogues (the official MCP registry, APIs.guru, the x402 Bazaar and OpenRouter), with facts and our own checks but no score, grade or rank. How the index works.
| Listing | Kind | What it does | Why it's here |
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| diemdesk.com MCP server diemdesk.com | MCP server | Convert Office files and PDFs, OCR a scan, or capture a web page — from your assistant. | vendor's own |
| nestr.io MCP server nestr.io | MCP server | Connect AI to Nestr for Holacracy, Sociocracy, and self-organizing teams. | vendor's own |
| Receipt Extraction acjlabs.com | MCP server | AU GST/ABN receipt extraction — assigns entertainment/ITC tax codes per line, not just OCR. | vendor's own |
How we test this category
The same scans, invoices, tables and long PDFs through every API. We score text accuracy, table structure, field extraction, page references, processing time and price per page. This test hasn't run yet, so Task success is pending and the grades here come from the categories assessed from public evidence.
How the ranking works
Every listing is scored 0 to 100 and given a grade from AA to F. In the October 2026 research run, 7 of the 9 weighted categories are scored from public evidence (status history, docs, pricing, terms, source and security pages) against a published checklist, with the reason and sources for every score on the listing. Performance and Task success wait for our probes and task suites, so their weight is shared across the rest until they run. Negative events deduct up to 15 points. Read the methodology.
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