Extract structured data from any document—PDFs, scans, photos—without templates or manual setup. Built on Lido’s AI extraction engine.
Upload any document — PDF, scan, or photo — and get structured data back immediately. No setup, no templates, no waiting.
Snap a picture with your phone or upload an existing photo. Invoices, receipts, forms, and handwritten notes all work.
Photo OCR identifies printed and handwritten text, tables, and form fields using AI that understands document context.
Download extracted data in your preferred format or send it to downstream systems through the REST API.
Last updated: June 2026
Photo OCR is the automated extraction of data from documents—whether they arrive as PDFs, scanned pages, or photographs—into structured output formats including spreadsheets, CSV files, and JSON. For teams managing document-heavy workflows, photo ocr eliminates the manual keying that creates processing delays.
Previous extraction methods relied on predefined templates or manually configured rules for each document layout. While this worked for standardized documents from one source, it became impractical when handling documents from many different sources with varying formats. Template libraries grew into a maintenance project of their own.
Layout-agnostic AI extraction represents the current state of the art. Instead of depending on coordinates or training samples, the AI interprets each document contextually—recognizing that a value labeled “Total” is a total regardless of its position on the page. Lido applies this approach to process any document on the first upload without templates or training data.
Teams assessing photo ocr tools should focus on accuracy across diverse layouts, output format options, integration paths to downstream systems, and compliance credentials. Lido offers all of these with SOC 2 Type 2 compliance, HIPAA eligibility, and a REST API for programmatic integration.
“We process documents from over 200 sources with completely different layouts. This handled them all on the first upload without any configuration.”
“Manual data entry was eating 15 hours a week. We cut that to under an hour by letting the AI extract everything into a spreadsheet automatically.”
“The confidence scoring is what sold us. We set a 95% threshold and only review flagged fields instead of spot-checking everything.”
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Photo Ocr is the process of reading documents such as PDFs, scanned images, and photos, then extracting specific fields and converting them into structured data like spreadsheet rows, CSV, or JSON. Modern photo ocr tools use AI vision models that understand document layout and context, so they do not require templates or manual zone configuration.
AI-powered photo ocr handles invoices, receipts, purchase orders, bank statements, financial reports, tax forms, medical records, contracts, and virtually any other document type. The same extraction engine works across all formats without separate configurations.
AI-based photo ocr typically achieves 95 to 99 percent accuracy on well-structured documents. Confidence scoring flags uncertain fields for human review rather than guessing silently. Lido provides confidence scores on every extracted field so teams can set review thresholds appropriate for their requirements.
Supported output formats include Excel spreadsheets, Google Sheets, CSV files for import into accounting or ERP systems, JSON for API integrations, and XML for legacy systems. Lido also provides a REST API that returns structured JSON with field-level confidence scores.
Lido offers 50 free pages to test the platform. The Standard plan starts at $29 per month for 100 pages. Scale plans for teams start at $7,000 per year for up to 42,000 pages. Enterprise pricing is available for organizations with custom integration or compliance requirements.
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Built on Lido’s OCR engine
Built on Lido’s OCR engine
Built on Lido’s OCR engine
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