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

Proof of delivery document (albaran in Spanish) detailing what was delivered. Used for inventory reconciliation and client billing.

supplier_name, supplier_nif, customer_name, document_number, issue_date, line_items, total_quantity, delivery_date, signature.

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 Delivery Note page. [See pricing](/tutorials/comparisons/volume-pricing).

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