I need an AI API for OCR and invoice extraction

If you need an AI API for OCR + invoice extraction, here are the best options depending on your priorities:

Top choices

1. Google Cloud Document AI

• Strong for invoices, receipts, and general document extraction
• Very good OCR accuracy
• Prebuilt invoice parser available
• Best if you want enterprise-grade accuracy and structured output

2. AWS Textract

• Great OCR and form/table extraction
• Has a dedicated AnalyzeExpense API for invoices/receipts
• Good if you already use AWS

3. Azure AI Document Intelligence

(formerly Form Recognizer)

• Excellent for invoices
• Prebuilt invoice model
• Good balance of ease of use and accuracy

4. Mindee

• Developer-friendly invoice extraction API
• Easy to integrate
• Good for quick implementation and clean JSON output

5. Veryfi

• Specialized in receipts and invoices
• Fast and API-focused
• Often used for expense automation

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Best recommendation by use case

• Best overall: Google Document AI
• Best for AWS users: AWS Textract
• Best for Azure users: Azure Document Intelligence
• Best simple API for developers: Mindee
• Best for expense/receipt workflows: Veryfi

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What to compare

When choosing, check:

• OCR accuracy on scanned/low-quality docs
• Invoice fields extracted:
  • vendor name
  • invoice number
  • invoice date
  • due date
  • subtotal / tax / total
  • line items
• JSON output quality
• Pricing per page
• Support for PDFs, images, and multi-page docs
• Language support
• Batch processing and webhook support

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If you want a fast starter choice

If you want something reliable and easy to try:

• Azure AI Document Intelligence or Google Document AI for invoice extraction
• Mindee if you want the simplest developer experience

If you want, I can also give you:

1. a feature comparison table,
2. sample API calls, or
3. a recommendation based on your budget / cloud provider / language needs.