Reducto Overview

Reducto is a powerful Document Ingestion API designed to help businesses, from startups to Fortune 10 enterprises, unlock the value trapped in their unstructured data. It provides a suite of tools that allow AI to read, understand, and even write in documents just like a human would. By converting messy, real-world documents into clean, structured, and LLM-ready data, Reducto streamlines complex workflows and powers the next generation of AI applications.

The platform is built on a sophisticated combination of layout-aware computer vision models and advanced Vision-Language Models (VLMs). This dual approach allows Reducto to first understand the visual structure of a document—identifying text regions, tables, figures, and layouts—and then interpret the content in context. Its unique Agentic OCR acts like a human editor, reviewing and correcting outputs in real-time to achieve near-perfect accuracy, even on challenging edge cases like complex tables or low-quality scans.

How to use Reducto

Reducto is designed as a developer-first API, making it easy to integrate into existing applications and workflows. The process is straightforward:

Get an API Key: Sign up on the Reducto website or contact their sales team to get an API key and access a trial.
Choose an Endpoint: Select the appropriate API endpoint based on your needs: Parse (to read and understand document structure), Split (to separate multi-document files), Extract (to pull structured data based on a schema), or Edit (to fill in forms and documents).
Make an API Call: Send your document (e.g., PDF, PNG, DOCX) to the chosen endpoint via a simple API request.
Receive Structured Output: Reducto processes the document and returns a clean, structured JSON output. This data is now LLM-ready and can be fed directly into other AI models, databases, or business applications like Databricks and Elasticsearch for tasks like semantic search or data analysis.
Automate Workflows: By combining endpoints, users can create powerful, end-to-end agentic workflows. For example, use 'Extract' to gather information from multiple sources and then use 'Edit' to automatically populate a summary report or a new form.

Core Features of Reducto

Agentic OCR: A self-correcting OCR system that uses VLMs to review and fix errors in real-time, ensuring exceptionally high accuracy.
Layout-Aware Parsing: Goes beyond simple text extraction to understand document structure, including tables, figures, lists, and sections.
Structured Data Extraction: Pulls specific data points from documents with schema-level precision, perfect for invoices, forms, and financial reports.
Intelligent Document Splitting: Automatically separates long documents or batched files into meaningful, individual units without manual pre-processing.
Document Editing API: A groundbreaking 'Edit' endpoint that allows AI to programmatically fill in form fields, checkboxes, and table cells.
Broad File Format Support: Natively handles a wide range of formats, including PDF, PNG, JPEG, TIFF, DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, HTML, and more.
Advanced Processing: Includes features like intelligent chunking for RAG, figure and table summarization, graph extraction, and automatic page rotation.
Enterprise-Grade Security & Compliance: SOC2 and HIPAA compliant, offering features like on-premise/VPC deployment, zero data retention, and custom SLAs for enterprise clients.

Use Cases for Reducto

Reducto is trusted by leading AI companies and enterprises across various industries:

Financial Services: Hedge funds and investment firms use Reducto to parse complex financial disclosures and extract critical data from tables for analysis.
Healthcare: Companies like Anterior leverage Reducto to accelerate prior authorization processes by extracting patient data from unstructured medical records with over 99% accuracy.
Insurance: Automating the extraction of data from claim submission forms, reducing manual processing time and errors.
AI & Automation Platforms: Tools like Stack AI and Gumloop integrate Reducto as their document ingestion engine to power enterprise automation workflows for their customers.
Legal Tech: Parsing contracts, legal briefs, and discovery documents to extract key clauses, dates, and entities.

Advantages of Reducto

Reducto offers significant advantages over traditional OCR and document processing solutions:

Unmatched Accuracy: The Agentic OCR and VLM-based correction mechanism delivers near-perfect results, minimizing errors and the need for manual review.
Comprehensive Understanding: It doesn't just read text; it understands layout, context, and semantics, making the output truly useful for AI applications.
End-to-End Solution: From parsing and extraction to the new editing capability, Reducto provides a complete toolkit for agentic document workflows.
Scalable and Reliable: Built on battle-tested infrastructure with 99.9%+ uptime, it's ready for production use at any scale.
Developer-Friendly: A clean, well-documented API makes integration fast and simple.

Pricing and Plans

Reducto offers a flexible, credit-based pricing model suitable for different scales of operation:

Free Plan: Includes 500 credits per month, providing access to all basic functionality and API endpoints. Ideal for developers, testing, and small-scale projects.
Growth Plan: Priced at $100/month for 5,000 credits. This plan includes everything in the Free tier plus Studio Access, priority Slack support, and enhanced security features like a Business Associate Agreement (BAA) and Zero Data Retention.
Enterprise Plan: Custom pricing for large-scale deployments. It includes all Growth features plus advanced security (SSO, SAML), on-premise/VPC deployment options, custom processing pipelines, and dedicated support with tailored SLAs.

A credit is typically equivalent to one page of a document or 5,000 spreadsheet cells. Simpler pages are discounted, while advanced features like Agentic OCR may consume more credits.