OpenParser

OpenParser is an OCR service that converts documents into structured data. It uses PaddleOCR-VL-1.6, an open-weight vision-language model, to extract text, tables, and form fields from PDFs and images. The API returns results as markdown, JSON blocks, and HTML tables. New accounts receive $10 in free credits.

Designed for developers building document automation workflows, OpenParser offers pay-per-page pricing starting at $1 per thousand pages. The service includes a playground for testing documents, an API console for monitoring usage, and the ability to switch between OCR models (Mistral, Azure, Google, Textract) on the same endpoint. The creator built it after finding existing providers either too expensive or unreliable for production use.