Parseur is built around an email mailbox. You forward documents to a Parseur address and set up a parser to pull the fields, which is excellent for the same email format arriving every day and awkward for a pile of receipts you just want in a spreadsheet. ReceiptOCR reads receipts and invoices you upload directly, shows the fields for review, and exports Excel, CSV, or JSON, with a REST API when you need one. If your documents are recurring inbound emails, Parseur fits. If they are receipts and invoices, upload one below.
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Parseur is a strong tool with a specific center of gravity: structured emails and documents that arrive the same way, again and again. Its workflow is built for that. When your real input is receipts and invoices in mixed formats, the mailbox and template model adds steps rather than removing them.
Parseur gives you a mailbox and expects documents to arrive there. For inbound email that is elegant. For a folder of scanned receipts, forwarding each one to a parsing inbox is a detour around the thing you wanted, which was upload and download.
Parseur is at its best when every document matches a template you built. Receipts have no stable layout, so the model that makes recurring order confirmations effortless is a poor match for thermal paper photographed at an angle.
The pricing page shows tiers, Base up to 3,000 pages a month and Scale up to a million, but the dollar figures do not render publicly; you sign up to see high-volume pricing. The one number on the page is the annual-billing promotion, three months free.
Parseur parses invoices, emails, orders, and alerts. That breadth is useful, and it means the engine is not specifically tuned for the messy edge cases of retail receipts the way a receipt-first tool is.
ReceiptOCR is built for the case Parseur handles least directly: receipts and invoices in mixed formats that you want to upload, check, and export, with pricing you can read before you commit.
Drop receipts and invoices straight in. No forwarding to a parsing inbox, no template to build first, no waiting for an email to arrive before anything happens.
The engine reads a receipt or invoice it has never seen. Forty vendors with forty layouts come back as forty consistent rows, with nothing to configure.
Pay for the documents you process, with no per-seat fee and no forced annual commitment. The price is not hidden behind a signup wall.
Every extracted value is visible and editable before the file leaves. Faded and handwritten paper is exactly where a person still earns their keep.
Description, quantity, and unit price come back where the document carries them, not just the header total.
Download the spreadsheet, take JSON over a REST API, or export a QuickBooks-ready file to close the books.
From a folder of receipts to a spreadsheet, with no inbox to forward to and no template to author.
A single receipt or a whole month of invoices. PDFs, scans, and phone photos go in the same batch, and mixing vendors is expected, not a problem.
Tip: Include the crumpled receipt you would never build a template for. That is the input that separates a receipt-tuned engine from a general parser.
Review vendor, date, tax, total, and every line item on screen. Correct anything the engine flagged before it becomes a row in your books.
Download Excel, CSV, or a QuickBooks-ready file, or call the REST API and receive the same fields as JSON.
Built for US teams whose documents are receipts and invoices to be uploaded and exported, rather than a stream of identical inbound emails.
Clients hand over shoeboxes and PDFs, not a tidy inbox of matching emails. Upload, review, export is the job, and a parsing mailbox is a step in the wrong direction.
Supplier invoices arrive in dozens of layouts across email, portals, and scans. A template per sender does not scale the way reading an unseen layout does.
Retail receipts have no stable structure, so template matching is the wrong tool. A receipt-tuned engine handles the thermal paper and the phone photos.
A pile of receipts, an accountant at the other end, and no wish to configure a parsing pipeline or decode pricing hidden behind a signup.
Last updated July 2026.
Parseur is a document and email parsing tool built around a mailbox. You forward documents to a Parseur email address, build a parser to identify the fields, and it extracts them into structured data. It supports both AI and template engines and handles PDFs and uploads as well as email. It is a well-made product for the job it centers on. This page is for the buyer whose job is different: receipts and invoices to upload and export, not a daily stream of identical emails.
Parseur assigns you a mailbox and processes whatever lands there. Its signature workflow is inbound email: order confirmations, shipping alerts, lead notifications, and application forms that arrive in the same format every time. You create a template or let its AI draft one, and every matching message is parsed into columns automatically. Uploads and an API are supported, so you are not strictly limited to email, but the mailbox and template model is the heart of the product and the reason it is so good at recurring structured messages.
Parseur publishes plan names and page limits but not the paid dollar figures. Here is what is actually visible on the pricing page in July 2026. Confirm on parseur.com, and note that seeing the paid prices requires signing up.
| Parseur plan | Page limit | Listed price |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Up to 20 pages per month | $0 |
| Base | Up to 3,000 pages per month | Not shown publicly, behind signup |
| Scale | Up to 1 million pages per month | Not shown publicly, behind signup |
| Enterprise | Up to 10 million pages per month | Quote only |
The only price on the public page is the annual promotion, three months free when you pay yearly. The free plan covers 20 pages a month, which is a genuine try-before-you-buy but not enough for a working bookkeeper. To learn what Base or Scale costs, you have to create an account, which is worth knowing before you compare it against a tool that prints its price.
Parseur bills by page and states that one credit equals one page processed. Emails and spreadsheets count as a single page each regardless of length, while PDFs are counted by their total page count. So a ten-line order confirmation email is one page, and a three-page invoice PDF is three. If most of your volume is multi-page PDFs, count pages rather than documents when you estimate a plan.
Yes. Parseur has a permanent free plan of up to 20 pages a month, with credits that renew monthly, and it includes unlimited mailboxes and extracted fields. That is generous for testing a recurring email parser and thin for production receipt processing, where 20 pages disappears in a single expense report. The free tier is best read as an evaluation allowance rather than an ongoing workflow.
Parseur has an API, so email is not the only path in. You can send documents programmatically and retrieve parsed results. That said, the product is designed mailbox-first, and much of its value and documentation is oriented around forwarding and templates. If an API is your primary integration surface, a tool built API-first will feel more direct than one where the API sits beside a mailbox as a secondary route.
These tools solve adjacent problems. Parseur turns a stream of structured messages into data; ReceiptOCR turns a stack of receipts and invoices into a spreadsheet. Where they overlap is document parsing; where they differ is the intended input.
| Capability | Parseur | ReceiptOCR |
|---|---|---|
| Primary input | Forwarded emails and matching documents | Uploaded receipts and invoices |
| Setup before first result | Mailbox plus a template | Upload the document |
| Unseen receipt layouts | Best with a matching template | Read on the first document |
| Recurring identical emails | Excellent, its core strength | Not the target use case |
| Pricing visibility | Paid prices behind signup | Transparent pay-as-you-go |
| QuickBooks-ready export | Via integrations | Yes, a direct file |
| Free tier | 20 pages per month | Try before you buy |
Choose Parseur when your documents arrive as email and repeat. If the same shipping notification, lead form, or order confirmation lands in your inbox hundreds of times a week in an identical layout, Parseur was built for exactly that. Its template editor is mature, its mailboxes are unlimited on every plan, and the forward-and-forget workflow is genuinely elegant for structured inbound mail. A receipt-tuned uploader is the wrong tool for that job, and we will happily say so.
Choose it, too, when your parsing needs span document types well beyond receipts and invoices. Parseur is general by design, and that breadth is an advantage when you are pulling fields out of a wide variety of business messages.
If your documents are receipts and invoices you already hold, the mailbox is the part you can skip. For expenses, receipt OCR software reads them in a browser and the receipt to Excel converter lands them in a sheet. For vendor bills, invoice OCR software pulls header fields and line items, and the invoice PDF to Excel converter answers the PDF conversion job directly. Developers take the same fields as JSON from the receipt OCR API. If email receipts are part of your mix, the how-to on exporting email receipts to a spreadsheet covers that path, and the intelligent document processing overview maps the wider category.
Parseur publishes plan names and page limits but not the paid dollar figures, which sit behind signup. As of July 2026 the visible tiers are Free up to 20 pages a month, Base up to 3,000, Scale up to a million, and Enterprise up to 10 million by quote. The only price on the public page is the annual promotion of three months free.
Yes. Parseur has a permanent free plan of up to 20 pages a month with monthly renewing credits, unlimited mailboxes, and unlimited extracted fields. It is generous for testing a recurring email parser and thin for production receipt processing, where 20 pages can be a single expense report.
One credit equals one page processed. Emails and spreadsheets count as a single page each regardless of length, and PDFs are counted by their total page count. If your volume is mostly multi-page PDFs, estimate a plan by pages rather than by document count.
Parseur has an API in addition to its mailbox, so you can send documents and retrieve results programmatically. The product is designed mailbox-first, though, with much of its value oriented around email forwarding and templates, so an API-first tool feels more direct if the API is your main integration surface.
Parseur can parse receipts, but its strength is recurring structured emails matched to templates, and receipts have no stable layout. A receipt-tuned engine that reads an unseen layout on the first upload handles thermal paper and phone photos more reliably than a template-based mailbox parser.
A tool built for direct upload of receipts and invoices with review before export. ReceiptOCR reads unfamiliar receipt and invoice layouts, shows every field for correction, exports Excel, CSV, or a QuickBooks-ready file, prices pay-as-you-go with no per-seat fee, and offers a REST API when you want to integrate.
Parseur is a mailbox-first parser tuned for recurring inbound emails and matching documents, with paid prices behind signup. ReceiptOCR is an upload-first engine tuned for receipts and invoices, with transparent pricing and review before export. Choose Parseur for repeating structured email; choose ReceiptOCR for a stack of receipts headed to a spreadsheet.
Turn a pile of receipts into a clean spreadsheet.
Any bill layout straight into spreadsheet rows.
The same extracted fields as structured JSON.
The rules-based parser comparison, setup time included.
The developer API, made usable without code.
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