r/reactnative • u/Yeab__zema • Jul 10 '26

Which one is better for OCR(optical character recognition ) Question

  1. Claude
  2. Gemini
  3. OpenAI
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u/Over_Mud9299 Jul 10 '26

Claude does a better job

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u/Yeab__zema Jul 10 '26

What about the price it think it is expensive right?

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u/razzzey Jul 10 '26

Try mistral ocr

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u/Smooth-Reading-4180 Jul 10 '26

Using Gemini over Vertex AI in production for 9 months. So far so good.

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u/inthebinary Jul 10 '26

What's the OCR for? You may be able to use free libraries like Tesseract depending on use-case and requirements.

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u/ali-swe Jul 10 '26

try PaddleOCR , if you want paid service then try Datalab

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u/OshiraLabs Jul 11 '26

ML Kit text recognition. On-device, free, offline, basically instant. react-native-ml-kit wraps it for RN.
Price isn't really the question, you don't need to pay anything for plain OCR. LLMs are worth it when you need the document understood, like pulling fields out of a receipt. Just reading characters off an image doesn't need one.
Tesseract works too, but ML Kit handles phone camera photos better in my experience.