Mindee ships pre-trained APIs for specific documents. If you want general PDF extraction with a correctness check, this is the simpler fit.
Mindee provides ready-made APIs for common documents like invoices, receipts and IDs, returning typed fields out of the box, plus a studio for training custom document types. If your documents fit those templates, that's convenient.
pdftojson takes the general approach: send any PDF and get clean structured data back in five formats, with a reconciliation check for bank statements and a free in-browser tool.
Mindee ships ready-made APIs for invoices, receipts and IDs, so you get typed fields without building anything.
You can train custom document types in their studio when the pre-built APIs don't cover your format.
| pdftojson | Mindee | |
|---|---|---|
| Focus | General PDF extraction plus reconciliation | Pre-trained APIs (invoice, receipt, ID) |
| Free in-browser tool | Yes | No |
| Bank-statement reconciliation | Yes — built in | Field extraction, no balance check |
| Output formats | JSON, Markdown, CSV, XML, Text | Typed JSON fields per document type |
| Pricing | Flat $29/mo | Per-page / per-API |
| Best for | PDF to structured data you can trust | Specific document types with typed fields |
If your documents are exactly invoices, receipts or IDs, Mindee's typed APIs give you named fields with no setup, and that's genuinely handy. pdftojson is the better fit when your documents vary, or when you want the raw structured data across formats rather than a fixed field set.
For bank statements it also reconciles the transactions against the opening and closing balances and flags any that don't add up, which a field extractor won't catch.
It returns the document's structured content across JSON, Markdown, CSV, XML or text rather than a fixed set of named fields. For bank statements it returns typed transactions plus a reconciliation result.
When your documents are exactly the types it has pre-trained APIs for and you want named fields out of the box. pdftojson is more general and adds a correctness check for financial documents.
Yes, through the API with OCR. The free in-browser tool handles text-based PDFs.
A flat $29/mo Developer plan with a free tier, billed per page processed.