Extract Cmr with Free vs Paid OCR API — Which Should You Choose?

A CMR (Convention Merchandises Routiers) is the international consignment note used for road freight across Europe. 24 standardized fields covering sender, receiver, carrier, goods, weight, signatures.

Upload your CMR (PDF or photo). System auto-detects document type and selects the best model. Handwritten CMRs use Gemini native PDF vision.

The most popular free OCR tool is Tesseract, an open-source engine maintained by Google. It provides 70-80 percent character accuracy on clean typed text but lacks document layout understanding, table extraction, and field-level parsing. Google Document AI has a free tier of 500 pages per year, but only covers basic OCR without logistics-specific schemas.

From 0.002 EUR per Cmr page. [See pricing](/tutorials/comparisons/volume-pricing).

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