Smart OCRv1.0Stop writing custom scripts to parse Textract BoundingBoxes. SmartOCR layers Enterprise Computer Vision and multi-modal engines to give you clean, schema-validated Structured JSON instantly, saving you months of engineering time.
Smart OCR routes every document across a curated stack of AI providers and local models, then returns Structured JSON AI Models validated against your schema.
{
"rawText": "string",
"confidenceScore": "number"
}{
"rawText": "Sony A7 IV Body qty 1 total 2498.00...",
"confidenceScore": 0.985
}Intelligent orchestration across specialized computer vision, spatial parsing, and multi-modal models. An AI-driven routing layer sends each document to the optimal engine — and automatically falls back if any engine encounters a timeout or layout degradation. No single point of failure in your extraction pipeline.
An LLM-backed normalization layer cleans, types, and reconciles every extracted field against your schema — fixing OCR noise, unifying date and currency formats, and returning structured values your services can trust out of the box.
Proprietary table-extraction algorithms detect table geometry and cell boundaries before routing, preserving row/column relationships for invoices, statements, and structured forms. Nested line items map cleanly into your typed JSON schema.
Bring your own JSON schema. Our Structured JSON AI Models map and validate fields against your contract — nested objects, typed values, required keys — so the response is safe to insert into your database without a post-processor.
PDFs containing embedded digital text are parsed natively in milliseconds, bypassing OCR entirely. Character-perfect text, lower latency, and no per-page OCR cost on the documents that don't need it.
Scoped API keys, per-key rate limiting, signed webhooks for async jobs, and audit logs on every request. Production controls without operational overhead.
Smart OCR is built for teams handling sensitive financial, medical, and legal documents. Privacy and isolation are defaults, not add-ons.
Documents are processed in memory and discarded from our servers immediately. Data routed to upstream AI providers is transmitted via secure APIs under strict enterprise agreements that prohibit model training on your data.
All traffic is encrypted in transit with TLS 1.2+. API keys are stored hashed at rest, requests are isolated per tenant, and provider credentials never leave our infrastructure.
Every API key and request operates in a logically isolated environment. Access credentials, schema configurations, and requests are separated using strict logical boundaries to ensure complete data privacy and zero cross-tenant access.
POST a file and a target schema to /v1/extract. Receive validated, type-safe JSON. No prompt engineering, no token math.
$ curl -X POST https://api.smartocr.dev/api/ocr/extract \
-H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_TOKEN" \
-F "file=@/path/to/document.pdf" \
-F 'schema={"rawText": "", "confidenceScore": 0}'Create an account today and instantly receive 10 free API credits to extract data from your first 10 documents. No credit card required.
Everything you need to know about Smart OCR vs. AWS Textract.
Raw AWS Textract returns unstructured layout blocks (blocks of words, coordinates, and lines) that require complex post-processing code to align into tables or key-value fields. Smart OCR layers enterprise computer vision with our Multi-Modal Document Engine and proprietary table-extraction algorithms to return clean, validated JSON according to your schema in a single call, eliminating the need to write custom parsing code.
Our routing engine continuously measures confidence scores. If the primary layout engine returns a low confidence threshold (which often happens with blurred images, non-standard layouts, or handwriting), the request is automatically retried with spatial layout analyzers and our Multi-Modal Document Engine to guarantee success.
No single OCR engine is best at everything. Enterprise computer vision excels at tabular layouts, spatial analyzers at dense handwriting, and our multi-modal engine at contextual language extraction. Smart OCR dynamically routes your document to the optimal engine based on quality indicators, and automatically falls back to secondary providers if the primary fails, ensuring 99.9% uptime and high accuracy without single-vendor lock-in.
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