Comparison
VisionParse vs Tesseract
The engine we run ourselves as the default. If you are willing to host and tune it, it costs nothing and never sends a document anywhere.
Open source (Apache 2.0) · every figure below comes from their own documentation, linked and dated · last checked 2026-08-08
Where Tesseract is the better choice
- Free forever, with no per-page cost at any volume.
- Runs entirely offline — nothing leaves your machine, which no hosted service can offer.
- You control the version, the language packs and the tuning.
- No account, no rate limit, no vendor to depend on.
Where we are
- Nothing to install, tune or keep running — the same engine, already configured.
- AI extraction names the fields — vendor, total, line items — and cross-foots the numbers, a check Tesseract does not attempt.
- Webhooks, an API and a dashboard around the engine rather than a command line.
- We publish where it fails; you would have to discover those yourself.
Side by side
| VisionParse | Tesseract | |
|---|---|---|
| Text extraction price | $19/month for 2,000 pages — $9.50 per 1,000 | Free (Apache 2.0)The code in this repository is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License")source, checked 2026-08-08 |
| Structured field extraction | 1 AI credit a document; 250 included on the $19 plan | Outputs text and layout — hOCR, TSV, ALTO, PAGE — but no named fields such as vendor, total or line itemsTesseract supports various output formats: plain text, hOCR (HTML), PDF, invisible-text-only PDF, TSV, ALTO and PAGE.source, checked 2026-08-08 |
| Free tier | 100 pages a month with an account; 5 conversions a day with none | Entirely free; you provide the hardwareThe code in this repository is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0source, checked 2026-08-08 |
| Languages | 161 recognition languages, counted on the production host | More than 100 out of the boxTesseract has unicode (UTF-8) support, and can recognize more than 100 languages "out of the box".source, checked 2026-08-08 |
| Where it runs | Hosted API, documents processed in Frankfurt, Germany | Self-hosted only — a command-line program you installTesseract is a command-line program.source, checked 2026-08-08 |
| What happens to your documents | Uploads deleted within the hour on every plan; never used to train models | Nothing leaves your machineOur reading, not their words: Tesseract ships only as a locally installed command-line program with no hosted component. The project makes no statement about network behaviour because there is no service to make one about.source, checked 2026-08-08 |
What this page does not claim
We have never run a document through Tesseract, so there is no accuracy comparison here and no chart showing us winning. Our own figures are measured and reproducible — the method is on the benchmark, including the cases where our default engine gets things wrong. Tesseract's figures are theirs, quoted from their documentation with the date we read it.
Most comparison pages of this kind include an accuracy table. Ours cannot, honestly, so it does not.
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