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

Learn how to extract Customs Declaration data programmatically using Free vs Paid OCR API — Which Should You Choose?. Extract HS codes, values, duties, incoterms from DUA customs documents. Includes code, field mapping, and API integration.

Extracting Customs Declaration Data

Documento Unico Administrativo contains 54 fields in dense multi-page format.

Extracted Fields

declaration_number, customs_office, exporter, importer, hs_code, goods_description, gross_weight, invoice_value, incoterm, country_of_origin, duties, total_duties.

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

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.

Pricing

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

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