Integrate reliable Document AI in your automation workflows with just a few lines of code

Easily convert unstructured documents into clean, structured data with a high-performance OCR and document processing API—built for speed, accuracy, and seamless integration into your stack.

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Pick the OCR service you can rely on

Eliminate inconsistent OCR results, complex integrations, and fragmented tools. ABBYY Document AI API is purpose-built to deliver reliable and consistent data extraction for enterprises. Backed by over 35 years of expertise and trusted by organizations worldwide, we provide the dependable results your essential business processes demand.

Seamless APIs, built for developers and business-critical document automation

Precision you can count on

Extract data from real-world business documents—like invoices, POs, and contracts—with industry-leading accuracy. Optimized for complex layouts, edge cases, and noisy input.

Built for developers

Plug-and-play APIs and SDKs that slot right into your architecture. RESTful endpoints, flexible JSON outputs, and robust documentation make integration painless—so you can deploy faster and stay focused on solving higher-level problems.

Automation at scale

Batch process unstructured data, normalize formats, and feed it directly into your downstream systems—from RPA bots to analytics pipelines. Designed to reduce manual steps and speed up throughput without compromising data quality.

Zero hallucinations

Unlike LLMs that can fabricate results, our purpose-built AI extracts only what’s there—no guessing, no invented data. That means your workflows and models run on clean, verifiable inputs.

Ready to scale

From pilot to production—scale with confidence. Our solution supports high-volume workloads, complex multi-doc scenarios, and enterprise-grade SLAs, all with flexible deployment and licensing options.

Built by experts, trusted by engineers

With over 35 years of experience in document processing and OCR, ABBYY delivers rock-solid tools that developers rely on to power real-world automation. Our tech is proven in production—so you can focus on building, not debugging.

Key capabilities

Image-to-text conversion

Extract searchable text from documents using state-of-the-art OCR technology. Supports multiple languages including English, German, French, Japanese, and Chinese, as well as multilingual documents. Text is delivered in structured JSON or text-only JSON formats.

Pre-trained field extraction

Access pre-trained extraction models designed for critical documents, including invoices, receipts, waybills, "proof-of" documents, and tax forms. Simplify integration into downstream workflows without additional training.

Document conversion

Transform scans and images of documents into searchable formats like PDF, PDF/A-3a, or HTML for greater versatility and usability.

Developer-friendly integration

Leverage SDKs available in Python, C#, TypeScript, and Java. Our intuitive API and developer-friendly and intuitive documentation ensure smooth setup and easy collaboration.

Data consistency and compliance

Benefit from a platform designed to preserve data integrity and support regulatory compliance, ensuring process transparency.

Purpose-built for business process automation

Build workflows tailored to your business needs. Designed specifically for automation teams, our API handles multi-language, handwritten, and complex document layouts with ease.

How to use the API

• Get started quickly
• Upload and process documents
• Output structured data

Get started quickly

Once you have a Vantage tenant, it’s easy to set up API access.

Upload and process documents

Send your business documents to the API for processing using pre-configured extraction models.

Output structured data

Receive reliable and structured data as JSON to feed directly into your automation or AI workflows.

Intelligent document processing pipeline

Document input

Ingest documents from multiple channels—mobile devices, email, shared folders, network scanners, and direct connections to business systems via API or pre-built connectors—ensuring seamless integration into your workflows, no matter how documents enter your organization. This flexibility empowers you to efficiently support diverse business processes, adapting to your specific needs and streamlining operations from every entry point.

Image enhancement

The quality of document images can vary significantly due to issues like poor lighting and distortions from mobile cameras—or come with multiple auxiliary elements such as patterned backgrounds, protection marks, field markings, lines, and guides that obscure important information.

ABBYY’s AI-powered image enhancement algorithms optimize each image for accurate data extraction. The AI corrects distortions and separates text from the background, cleaning up even the most complex and visually busy documents—such as IDs, birth certificates, and forms—to achieve reliable results and high straight-through processing rates.

OCR / ICR

AI has transformed the ability to read and interpret content previously deemed impossible to process, dramatically expanding the use cases for automation. ABBYY IDP uses advanced AI-based optical character recognition (OCR) and intelligent character recognition (ICR) technologies to digitize printed and handwritten text, preparing it for further processing. These technologies can recognize the logical structure of the whole document, including complex elements such as tables, enabling document classification, data extraction, and high-quality export to digital formats.

Document classification & assembly

Automate document classification and routing with AI classification models that analyze both text and image features through multimodal learning to recognize and organize documents. Once classified, documents are automatically assigned an AI extraction model for processing. By incorporating human-in-the-loop input, the models learn from user corrections and automatically adjust, continuously improving their performance over time.

Data extraction & validation

Extract data from structured, semi-structured, or unstructured business documents using advanced AI and machine learning that mimic human understanding. ABBYY IDP reads and understands documents in over 200 languages and effortlessly handles complex tables, handwriting, checkmarks, barcodes, signatures, and more.

Automatic validation cross-checks information against databases and ensures compliance with built-in validation rules. Our low-code design approach gives you the flexibility to use pre-trained models available in the ABBYY Marketplace, tweak these ready-to-use models for the unique needs of your organization, or train custom models tailored to your specific documents.

LLM

Combine purpose-built AI with the flexibility of Large Language Models (LLMs) to enhance document workflows. This hybrid approach enables advanced summarization, contextual reasoning, and automated communication, unlocking new efficiencies in a secure and scalable environment.

Human in the Loop (HITL) & continuous learning

Keep refining your processes through human-in-the-loop (HITL) review, which lets subject matter experts manually check and correct document classes as well as extracted data through a convenient interface. This optional step is crucial when 100% accuracy is required or when a document doesn’t meet the specific validation rules established for each AI model. Each time a correction is made, the AI models improve through continuous learning and get more accurate.

Quality analytics

The advanced quality analytics provided by ABBYY Document AI provide a clear understanding of your document processing performance and track improvements in straight-through processing rates over time. With actionable insights and tailored recommendations, you can pinpoint the root causes of problems and take effective actions to improve data extraction quality of the models for superior business outcomes within your IDP workflow.

Data output

ABBYY Document AI automatically exports data in the required format to meet your needs—whether JSON, CSV, XML, or others. The data is then sent seamlessly to your automation systems and business applications through simple REST API or pre-built connectors into your downstream processes.

Document AI API—frequently asked questions

What makes ABBYY Document AI API different?

Unlike general-purpose LLMs and open-source models, ABBYY Document AI API is purpose-built for business-critical use cases, offering pre-trained models, high accuracy, and hallucination-free results.

Which document types are supported?

The API supports common document types like invoices, bank statements, receipts, and contracts, designed for enterprise automation projects.

How can I test the API?

Contact ABBYY to request a tenant in ABBYY Vantage. Once you have a tenant account, you can create user accounts and API clients for authentication.

Can I rely on ABBYY for long-term solutions?

With over 35 years of experience, ABBYY is a trusted provider of document processing solutions. Our technology is built to evolve and scale with your business needs.

Where can I explore the Document AI API?

The Document AI API is a REST API that can be used with any programming language. This gives you the flexibility and freedom to use the programming language of your choice while still leveraging the powerful features of the Document AI API.