Building invoice OCR pipelines at scale: switching from Azure Doc Intelligence to vision LLMs

thecurryguy24 · reddit · 2026-09-03

A developer building invoice/document extraction pipelines at scale shares their path: starting with Azure Document Intelligence for low setup cost, then moving to vision LLMs after accuracy issues, combined with rule-based handling for line items and page breaks. The thread asks how others choose between deterministic OCR and vision LLMs for complex multi-column documents, and how to evaluate extraction quality.

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