Reducto vs Tencent Cloud OCR

Reducto provides document parsing, extraction, splitting, classification, and editing to turn files into structured data with citations. Its r-1 parsing model handles layout, tables, figures, and formatting, returning granular citations. The platform supports more than 30 file types, including PDFs, images, spreadsheets, slides, and text documents; its multilingual parsing covers more than 100 languages, including mixed-language documents. Teams can build document pipelines with an API, Python, Node.js and Go SDKs, a CLI, an MCP server, or the visual Studio tool. The MCP server is listed as working with Claude, Cursor, and VS Code. Standard includes 150 USD in free usage, then pay-as-you-go pricing based on products and pages processed: r-1 Parse is 10 USD per 1,000 pages and Extract is 20 USD per 1,000 pages. Reducto states that it is SOC 2 Type II audited and HIPAA compliant. Growth and Enterprise have custom pricing; Enterprise offers VPC and on-prem deployments, and both tiers include a zero data retention agreement.

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