vs AWS Textract

PaperOffice AI vs AWS Textract

Hyperscaler OCR vs. EU stack: extraction, evidence and WORM without a pipeline kit — 1 access path for REST and MCP.

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At a glance

69ready document types
21invoice fields out of the box
up to 200custom fields
35output languages
from €6.00per 1,000 pages

Made for real business. Not for hype.

In the same account

More than extraction

Extract

AI OCR with bounding boxes — 69 types, fields with location.

from €6 per 1,000 pages
HITL review

Seamless in the job path — task and document also on mobile.

Web + Mobile
Sign

SES signatures from the same credit balance.

SES from the balance
WORM archive

Audit-proof filing and audit trail.

included

Comparison table

Details for AWS Textract from a public vendor pricing page, as of 08/2026.

Criterion	PaperOffice	AWS Textract
Bounding boxes (word/line level)	Yes (word/line level, Surya OCR)	Yes (geometry per feature)
Sandwich PDF / searchable archive PDF	Yes — searchable archive PDF	n/a
Click-to-evidence / visual validation (HITL)	Yes — click-to-evidence / HITL	HITL via Amazon A2I
Structured IDP fields (ready types)	69 ready document types incl. DATEV/ZUGFeRD/XRechnung	Detect / Expense / Forms / Tables
DMS/archive included (WORM, audit, legal hold)	Yes — WORM, audit trail, legal hold	n/a
E-signatures on the same document	Yes — on the same document in the archive	no
Native MCP server (tool count)	Yes — 300+ API/MCP Tools	n/a
EU inference on owned hardware	Yes — owned EU GPU hardware	AWS regions — vendor cloud
Self-service without cloud setup	Yes — token in minutes	AWS account + IAM/S3 setup
Pricing model	One credit balance for all features: from €6.00–€60.00 per 1,000 pages by quality tier	Detect Document Text (OCR only): $1.50 per 1,000 pages (first 1 million/month), then $0.60 (US West region per official sample; check EU region eu-central-1 separately)
List price per 1,000 pages	Basic €20.00 / Premium €60.00 / Ultra €200.00 per 1,000 pages (2/6/20¢)	Detect $1.50/1k; Expense $10/1k; Forms+Tables $65/1k (USD)
Billing	from €6.00 per 1,000 pages (Elite) — same scale on every tier	n/a

Source: https://aws.amazon.com/textract/pricing/, retrieved 08/2026.

AWS Textract is a trademark of its respective owner. PaperOffice is not affiliated with or endorsed by AWS Textract. Competitor details are based on publicly available sources (as of 08/2026) and are provided without warranty.

Pricing model with qualification tiers

Our prices are public — including partner terms.

Unit: Price per 1,000 pages

Tier	Elite Partner (−70%)	Partner (−40%)	Enduser
Basic	€6.00	€12.00	€20.00
Premium	€18.00	€36.00	€60.00
Ultra	€60.00	€120.00	€200.00

Billing is internal in credits; amounts follow the selected currency (base: list price).

Elite terms after qualification — criteria and program are public: Pricing · Partner program

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When is AWS Textract the better choice?

Teams already deep in AWS (IAM, S3, Lambda) that only need raw extraction often stay with Textract — Detect Document Text is about $1.50/1,000 pages on the official price list. Textract is an extraction API in the AWS stack.

When extraction plus archive, HITL and MCP in one stack matter, PaperOffice is the better fit.

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Key differences

AWS Textract

AWS Textract: extraction specialist. The result stays in that product context.

PaperOffice AI

Document platform with API: result in the archive, one credit balance, hosted in the EU, MCP for AI agents.

Three decision axes

What happens to the result?

The result from AWS Textract stays in that product context. PaperOffice keeps extraction and archive on the same document.

Contracts & billing

Detect Document Text (OCR only): $1.50 per 1,000 pages (first 1 million/month), then $0.60 (US West region per official sample; check EU region eu-central-1 separately). With PaperOffice result, archive and further processing live in one account with one credit balance.

Where do your data run?

AWS Textract returns the result in its own product model. PaperOffice runs its own EU servers and files the result in an audit-proof way.

Integrated in minutes

Copy llms-full.txt
https://api.paperoffice.ai/latest/docs/llms-full.txt
Paste into Claude, Cursor or your agent
Say what you want to build — the agent delivers the finished integration.

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Integrate manually (Python)

Invoice extraction

curl -X POST "https://api.paperoffice.ai/latest/job/add/workflow" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer po_sk_xxx" \ -F "file=@./invoice.pdf" \ -F "model=premium" \ -F "idp_collection=invoice" # danach job_result pollen (job_id aus Response)

import requests api_token = "po_sk_xxx"
file_path = "invoice.pdf" create = requests.post( "https://api.paperoffice.ai/latest/job/add/workflow", headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {api_token}"}, files={"file": open(file_path, "rb")}, data={"model": "premium", "idp_collection": "invoice"},
)
print(create.json())

Sample response (truncated)

{ "status": "success", "job_id": "job_…", "result": { "fields": { "invoice_number": "…" } }
}

Full parameters: llms-full.txt / Postman.

FAQ

Is PaperOffice a AWS Textract alternative?

Yes. PaperOffice AI can be evaluated as an alternative to AWS Textract — along extraction, processing on own servers in the EU, DMS/WORM and MCP, API-first.

What does PaperOffice cost compared to AWS Textract?

Basic 2¢, Premium 6¢, Ultra 20¢ per page — PaperOffice’s full price list is public. Figures for AWS Textract are in the comparison table; source and retrieval date sit directly below the table.

What specifically sets AWS Textract apart from PaperOffice?

AWS Textract primarily solves the core job described on this page. PaperOffice keeps extraction, archive (WORM), permissions, HITL and MCP on the same document — with a public per-page price list.

How do I migrate from AWS Textract to PaperOffice?

Typical cutover from AWS Textract: send the same files to PaperOffice workflows (e.g. idp_collection=invoice), run in parallel, then cut over. llms-full.txt: job/workflow.

Where is data processed — differently from AWS Textract?

On our own servers in the EU — including audit-proof filing and an audit trail. Where AWS Textract processes data is documented by the vendor.

Which extraction types does PaperOffice cover versus AWS Textract?

Ready IDP pipelines (incl. invoice) plus DMS/HITL/MCP versus AWS Textract — not raw extraction only. Fastest with llms-full.txt.