From the team

July 4, 2026

File intelligence API: why companies are replacing their file agents with one API call

You don't need to build a file agent. You need an API that already is one — extraction, reasoning, cross-referencing, and 107+ formats in a single endpoint.

July 3, 2026

The Drive AI vs Reducto vs Extend: honest comparison for 2026

Three document APIs, three different approaches. Here's what each does best, where each falls short, and which one fits your use case.

July 2, 2026

Best document extraction APIs for developers in 2026

A developer's guide to choosing a document extraction API. We tested 8 APIs on real documents — here's what actually works.

July 1, 2026

Cross-document analysis: compare information across multiple files with one API call

Your agent has 5 documents. It needs to find contradictions, track changes, and reconcile data. Here's how to do it without orchestrating dozens of tool calls.

June 30, 2026

PDF to markdown API: 5 approaches compared for 2026

From open-source libraries to managed APIs — which PDF-to-markdown approach actually preserves tables, headers, and structure?

June 28, 2026

Document processing for AI agents: why you don't need to build a file agent anymore

Every AI team builds the same file-handling pipeline. Format detection, parsing, extraction, validation — six months of engineering you can replace with three API endpoints.

June 26, 2026

Build vs buy: when to roll your own document processing pipeline

The honest math on building document extraction in-house vs. using an API. Spoiler: the break-even point is further away than you think.

June 24, 2026

OCR is dead: how vision language models changed document processing

Tesseract extracts characters. Vision models understand documents. The shift from OCR to visual document intelligence is already here.

June 22, 2026

How to extract tables from complex PDFs in 2026

Merged cells, multi-page tables, nested headers — the approaches that actually work on real-world financial and legal documents.

June 20, 2026

Website to structured data: the missing API for AI applications

Your agent needs to read a webpage and extract specific fields. Here's why scraping + parsing is the wrong approach, and what to use instead.

June 18, 2026

107 file formats, one API: universal file intelligence

PDFs, spreadsheets, images, video, audio, code files, and live websites — all handled by a single endpoint with the same schema interface.

June 16, 2026

The true cost of document processing: per-page pricing breakdown for 2026

What does it actually cost to process documents at scale? We break down per-page pricing across 7 APIs, including hidden costs most vendors don't mention.

June 13, 2026

The $100 invoice that broke 4 extraction APIs

We crafted an invoice where the line items don't add up. Every extraction tool returned the wrong answer. Only one approach caught it.

June 12, 2026

Extraction vs. Reasoning

Your document pipeline pulls the numbers. But does it check if they're right?

June 10, 2026

How to extract structured data from PDFs with Python in 2026

From pdfplumber to LLM-powered extraction — the approaches that work, the ones that don't, and when to use an API instead.

June 8, 2026

We sent a 500-page SEC filing to every document API. Here's what came back.

Berkshire Hathaway's 10-K tested against extraction and reasoning APIs. Real outputs, real accuracy, no spin.

June 6, 2026

Building AI agent tools: how to give your agent file understanding

Your agent encounters a PDF attachment, a spreadsheet, a URL. Here's how to make it understand any of them with one tool definition.

June 4, 2026

Multi-page tables in PDFs: why every extraction tool breaks (and how to fix it)

Tables that span pages are the #1 failure mode in document extraction. Here's what actually works.

June 2, 2026

OCR accuracy in 2026: what actually works on scanned documents

Tesseract, Google Vision, GPT-4 vision, and hybrid approaches compared on real scanned invoices, receipts, and contracts.

May 30, 2026

What your AI agent actually sees when you send it a PDF

A raw PDF is useless to an agent. Here's what happens between upload and structured output — and where most pipelines lose information.

May 28, 2026

LlamaParse vs The Drive AI: document parsing vs document reasoning

LlamaParse converts documents to text for RAG. The Drive AI extracts structured data and reasons over documents. Different tools for different jobs.

May 25, 2026

AWS Textract alternatives for AI agents in 2026

Textract extracts text and tables from documents. But AI agents need more — typed schemas, confidence scores, computed answers, and website support.