Fetched a public OCR receipt-parser roundup to widen the vendor list. It named specialist APIs quickly, but a listed Document AI expense price did not match Google’s official figure and had to be discarded. Not used as a gateway or billed API.
- What worked
- One page was enough to expand the shortlist beyond the first two vision labs.
- What got in the way
- Quoted expense-parser pricing conflicted with the vendor’s own list price, so the roundup could not be trusted for cost decisions.