an invoice OCR API

Interest over time From data

Hacker News stories mentioning invoice ocr extraction (topic read as “invoice OCR”), by year — 50 in total, currently rising.

1. 1 2021
2. 1 2022
3. 2 2023
4. 11 2024
5. 22 2025
6. 13 2026

This counts discussion on Hacker News, not global search demand. For developer tooling the two move together; for a local service business they do not.

Who is already building this From data

• chiupam/invoiceOCR is an active Python project with 51 stars and a last push on 2026-07-31. It is built on Tencent Cloud OCR for invoice recognition and management, including auto extraction, image processing, project classification, and export.

  • github chiupam/invoiceOCR 2025-03-21

• datpham0412/invoice-processor has 39 stars and last pushed on 2025-07-03, so it is stale. It is a full-stack invoice processing and purchase-order matching system using Azure Form Recognizer OCR, Azure Blob Storage, React,.NET 6, and Docker Compose.

  • github datpham0412/invoice-processor 2025-05-22

• Veryfi has several maintained SDKs for its OCR API: veryfi-nodejs has 32 stars and last pushed on 2026-04-09, veryfi-python has 30 stars and last pushed on 2026-05-14, and veryfi-go has 24 stars with a last push on 2026-07-24.

  • github veryfi/veryfi-nodejs 2021-06-30
  • github veryfi/veryfi-python 2020-04-22
  • github veryfi/veryfi-go 2021-05-20

• Veryfi also has smaller client libraries that are still maintained, including veryfi-php with 15 stars and last push on 2025-11-26, veryfi-ruby with 8 stars and last push on 2026-07-03, veryfi-kotlin with 6 stars and last push on 2026-02-10, and veryfi-swift with 11 stars but a last push on 2025-08-11.

  • github veryfi/veryfi-php 2021-11-02
  • github veryfi/veryfi-swift 2021-07-26
  • github veryfi/veryfi-ruby 2021-09-03
  • github veryfi/veryfi-kotlin 2021-12-21

• There are also smaller open-source invoice OCR projects such as jyothish-ram/invoice_ocr_api with 3 stars and last push on 2024-09-10, timhaiz/invoice-manager with 3 stars and last push on 2025-09-18, and natgluons/AI-docs-analyzer-API with 3 stars and last push on 2025-05-26.

  • github jyothish-ram/invoice_ocr_api 2024-09-09
  • github timhaiz/invoice-manager 2025-09-06
  • github natgluons/AI-docs-analyzer-API 2025-05-26

What people actually say From data

• "I have an inconsistent result when extracting a table from a Czech invoice." One user says the cloud API works, but local OCR fails on the same invoice.

  • githubissues Table extraction succeeds on Cloud API but fails locally for one Czech invoice — need OCR bypass to Google OCR 2025-10-08

• "I need reliable table extraction for Czech invoices." This is a direct complaint about accuracy on a real invoice format.

  • githubissues Table extraction succeeds on Cloud API but fails locally for one Czech invoice — need OCR bypass to Google OCR 2025-10-08

• "Some of the text could not be recognised and extracted." The user is describing OCR misses on invoice fields in OpenAI Vision.

  • discourse GPT 4 Vision Model misrepresentation of text from an Invoice (OCR Task) 2024-05-02

• "I need to extract multiline data from mulitpage PDF to the populate excel sheet" A n8n user is struggling with multi-page invoice-like PDFs and spreadsheet extraction.

  • discourse Need to extract multiline data from mulitpage PDF to the populate excel sheet 2025-07-03

• "The whole idea for this came from my old job as a consultant... it felt like every other project involved scraping data from images—passports, receipts, driver's licenses, you name it." This HN founder voice shows document extraction is a repeated pain, not a one-off.

  • hackernews Show HN: I built a tool to create custom OCR APIs in minutes, no training needed 2025-11-11

People asking to be sold to From data

• "I need reliable table extraction for Czech invoices." That is an explicit need for a better product, not just a complaint.

  • githubissues Table extraction succeeds on Cloud API but fails locally for one Czech invoice — need OCR bypass to Google OCR 2025-10-08

• "I would definitely like to" use something that avoids waiting for invoices to go unpaid and then filing later. The speaker is asking for a pre-filing invoice workflow.

  • intent I joined landlord groups to persuade them to be better people to their tenants 2024-05-04

• "Does anyone know of an open source tool that reliable extracts data from PDF invoices?" This is a direct request for a solution.

  • intent Show HN: BillBuddy – Automated Invoice Processing 2017-10-11

• "I’m looking at selling my own adverts and I have advertisers wanting to give me their money and copy. Does anyone know of a system to automate that stuff?" This is a broader automation want, but it is still first-hand willingness to adopt software for paperwork-heavy workflows.

  • intent So you were thinking of using adsense to generate income? Think again 2010-08-16

• "We tried using GPT-4 Vision and various OCR APIs to automate our Accounts Payable." The founder says they already tried alternatives and still hit a hard edge case on the remaining 10%.

  • hackernews Show HN: API that falls back to humans when AI is unsure 2026-01-12

Competitor strength From data

Counted, not judged. Only projects that expose a hard number — stars, downloads, last commit — appear here, so they stop looking identical to each other. Products with no public metrics are discussed above instead of being given a row they cannot fill.

• 4 open source
• 2 active
• 1 dead
• 1 slow
• 17 first-hand complaints
• 8 stated wants
• 4 communities discussing it

Domain names From data

Checked live against the registry, built from the subject of the idea rather than the first words of the sentence. A literal check is a fact; a brandable suggestion would be noise.

• invoiceocr.com taken
• invoiceocr.io available
• invoice.com taken
• getinvoice.com taken