Computer Vision (OCR) pricing

Question

Hello,
I am trying to estimate a price for using Azure OCR services. I have documents with many pages of printed tables of numbers. I need to "read" all the numbers from these pages. If, for example, I have a page with 40 rows and 5 columns each row, what will be the price for using the OCR function? Would each number ("cell") count as a transaction, each row (as a line of text) or each page?

Thank you,

Answer 1

hello @MariusApopei-2063 !

Welcome to Microsoft QnA!

If you have a document with 100 pages, and each page has a table similar to what you described (40 rows, 5 columns of numbers), you would send 100 transactions to the OCR API if you process each page as a separate image.

0-1M transactions - $1 per 1,000 transactions

Dont forget :

The cost would then be based on the number of transactions and the pricing tier you are using. Azure offers a free tier with a limited number of transactions per month, as well as paid tiers for higher usage levels.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/purview/ocr-learn-about
Estimate your bill

When you first start using OCR, limit usage to just a few people and applicable workloads. After a short while, you can view your bill in Azure and see the usage statistics & charges for each day. From there, you can extrapolate the costs for your full set of users. In addition, you can use the "workload" tag in Azure cost management to see the breakdown of usage per workload.

You can monitor your Microsoft Syntex pay-as-you-go usage in Microsoft Cost Management for Azure. You must have at least read access to the resource group that you specified for Microsoft Syntex. Note that usage information might take up to 24 hours to appear in Cost Management.

To see the charges applied to the Syntex meters

1. Sign in to Microsoft Cost Management for Azure.
2. Under Cost Management, select Cost analysis.
3. Select Add filter, choose Product from the list, and then choose the product (listed below) that you want to filter on.
4. Select Add filter, choose Tag from the list, and then choose the tag (listed below) that you want to filter on.

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