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Can modern AI tools extract tables from scanned PDFs cheaply, or am I better off paying for legacy OCR software right now?

ChatGPTgpt-61 query10/31/2026
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The searches the AI actually ran for this prompt.

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Can modern AI tools extract tables from scanned PDFs cheaply, or am I better off paying for legacy OCR software right now?
1 real search · 1 real-search pass
2026 AI table extraction scanned PDF OCR tools pricing Azure Document Intelligence Google Document AI AWS Textract open source Tesseract CamelotGoogle ↗
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Badge and edge weight = share of passes that produced the query. Hover a query for its intent and routing format.

Query classes

Google's semantic query class for every sub-query: what kind of answer each search is after, simulated vs real.

ChatGPT real searches (1)
Short factOther / navigationalComparison100%ConsequenceReasonDefinitionInstructionYes / no

Classes come from the query-classifier (a local Laya model). 1 of 1 calls are low-confidence (under 50%) — hover a query in the table to see its confidence.

Searches and sources

ChatGPT1 real searches · gpt-6
2026 AI table extraction scanned PDF OCR tools pricing Azure Document Intelligence Google Document AI AWS Textract open source Tesseract Camelot Google ↗
  1. Document AI · cloud.google.com
  2. Textract Pricing Page · aws.amazon.com
  3. PDF Editor Software Price · pdf.abbyy.com
  4. Process documents with Gemini layout parser  |  Document AI  |  Google Cloud Documentation · docs.cloud.google.com
  5. Document AI pricing · cloud.google.com
  6. Google Document AI · cloud.google.com
  7. Amazon Textract · aws.amazon.com
  8. ABBYY FineReader · pdf.abbyy.com
  9. PaddleOCR on GitHub · github.com

Queries

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2026 AI table extraction scanned PDF OCR tools pricing Azure Document Intelligence Google Document AI AWS Textract open source Tesseract Camelot
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