# Reducto

> High-accuracy document ingestion API — parsing, agentic OCR, table and figure extraction, and splitting that turns messy PDFs into LLM-ready data for RAG.

Reducto is a hosted document ingestion API for production RAG and document pipelines. It parses PDFs, images, spreadsheets, and slides into LLM-ready data — combining specialized OCR with vision-language models for accurate tables, figures, and layout — plus Extract, Split, and Edit APIs and bounding-box citations for traceability.

Website: https://reducto.ai

Reducto is a **high-accuracy document ingestion API** built for production RAG and document pipelines. Its core Parse API reads PDFs, images, spreadsheets, slides, scanned pages, and handwritten content, returning LLM-ready structured output that preserves layout, reading order, tables, and figures. Around parsing, it offers **Extract** (schema-based field extraction), **Split** (separating multi-document files into individual units), and **Edit** APIs.

What sets Reducto apart is its accuracy on complex and financial documents. Rather than relying on OCR alone, it combines specialized OCR with **vision-language models** in a multi-pass, self-correcting "agentic OCR" approach that catches and fixes recognition errors — which is where template-based or single-pass tools tend to fall apart on dense tables, multi-column layouts, and statements.

It is a **closed-source hosted API**, not a library you self-host (though it offers on-prem and VPC deployment on its enterprise tier). Reducto publishes open-source client SDKs for Python, Node, and Go under Apache-2.0, but the parsing engine itself runs as a managed service.

## Highlights

- **Agentic OCR** — a multi-pass, self-correcting OCR + VLM pipeline that improves robustness on previously unseen, messy documents.
- **Complex table and figure extraction** — strong handling of dense financial statements, multi-column layouts, and figures.
- **Bounding-box citations** — output includes source coordinates, so retrieved chunks stay traceable back to the original page.
- **Full ingestion suite** — Parse, Extract, Split, and Edit across 30+ file types and many languages, through one API.

## Good to know

Reducto is freemium: a free tier with included credits, usage-based Standard and Growth plans, and an Enterprise tier adding VPC/on-prem deployment, custom SLAs, and security commitments (SOC 2, HIPAA, zero data retention, BAAs). It's most useful when document parsing is the accuracy bottleneck in a RAG pipeline — pair it with [how-rag-works](/guides/rag/how-rag-works) for the surrounding retrieval design and a [chunking-strategy-optimizer](/skills/rag/chunking-strategy-optimizer) for tuning the chunks it produces.

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_Source: https://agentscamp.com/tools/reducto — Tool on AgentsCamp._