Azure document AI accuracy I would categorize as high not "mid". Including hand writing. However for the $1.5/1000 pages, it doesn't include layout detection.

Azure document AI accuracy I would categorize as high not "mid". Including hand writing. However for the $1.5/1000 pages, it doesn't include layout detection. The $10/1000 pages model includes layout detection (headers, etc.) as well as key-value pairs and checkbox detection. I have continued to do proofs of concept with Gemini and GPT, and in general any new multimodal model that comes out but have it is not on par with the checkbox detection of azure. In fact the results from Gemini/GPT4 aren't even good enough to use as a teacher for distillation of a "small" multimodal model specializing in layout/checkbox. I would like to also shout out surya OCR which is up and coming. It's source available and free for under a certain funding or revenue milestone - I think $5m. It doesn't have word level detection yet but it's one of the more promising non-hyper scaler/ heavy commercial OCR tools I'm aware of.