Prompt
What OCR API should I use if I need bounding boxes and coordinates?
Latest observation
If you need bounding boxes / word or line coordinates, pick an OCR API that returns layout information, not just extracted text.
Good options:
1. Google Cloud Vision OCR
- Returns bounding boxes for pages, blocks, paragraphs, words, and symbols.
- Strong accuracy and easy to use.
- Good default choice for general OCR.
2. AWS Textract
- Returns bounding boxes for words, lines, tables, forms, and key-value pairs.
- Best if you need document structure in addition to OCR.
- Great for invoices, receipts, forms, and business docs.
3. Azure AI Vision / Document Intelligence
- Returns bounding boxes and rich layout data.
- Strong for structured documents and form extraction.
- Document Intelligence is especially useful for PDFs and business documents.
4. ABBYY OCR / Vantage / FlexiCapture
- Very strong on enterprise document OCR.
- Provides detailed coordinates and layout.
- Often used in higher-end document processing pipelines.
5. Tesseract
- Open-source and free.
- Can provide bounding boxes, but accuracy and layout handling are usually weaker than cloud APIs.
- Good if you want local/offline OCR.
Quick recommendation
- General OCR with boxes: Google Cloud Vision
- Forms/tables/invoices: AWS Textract or Azure Document Intelligence
- Enterprise-grade OCR: ABBYY
- Free/local: Tesseract
If you want, I can also recommend the best one based on your exact use case:
- scanned PDFs
- photos of documents
- invoices/receipts
- handwriting
- multi-language OCR
Observation history
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