I need a document OCR service that supports PDFs, TIFFs, and multipage files in one endpoint

If you want a single OCR endpoint that handles PDFs, TIFFs, and multipage documents, you have a few solid options depending on whether you want a managed API or to build your own.

Good service options

1. Google Cloud Vision OCR

• Supports PDFs and TIFFs via async batch processing
• Good for multipage documents
• Can extract text from scanned docs
• Best if you already use Google Cloud

2. AWS Textract

• Supports PDFs and TIFFs
• Great for forms, tables, and document structure
• Handles multipage files
• Best for structured document extraction, not just plain OCR

3. Azure AI Document Intelligence

• Supports PDFs and TIFFs
• Strong OCR plus layout/document analysis
• Good multipage support
• Best if you want OCR plus richer document understanding

4. ABBYY FineReader / ABBYY Vantage

• Strong OCR accuracy
• Supports PDFs, TIFFs, and multipage scans
• Often used in enterprise workflows

5. Self-hosted open source

• Tesseract OCR with PDF/TIFF preprocessing
• Works with multipage files if you build the pipeline
• More control, but more engineering effort

What to look for

Make sure the service supports:

• Single endpoint or one API flow for all file types
• Async processing for large multipage files
• Text output formats like plain text, JSON, hOCR, searchable PDF
• Image preprocessing for skew, rotation, noise
• Batch support if you process many files

Recommendation

If you want the simplest enterprise-grade option, I’d usually recommend:

• Azure AI Document Intelligence for general document OCR
• AWS Textract if you need tables/forms
• Google Vision OCR if you mainly need text extraction

If you want, I can also give you:

1. a comparison table of these services,
2. a sample API design for a single endpoint,
3. or a self-hosted architecture for PDFs + TIFFs + multipage OCR.