Why we built StartOCR
The story behind building an OCR product on Cloudflare Workers.
LHLiang Huo1 min read
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OCR tools have been around for decades, but most of them are slow, expensive, or both.
The problem
We needed an OCR tool that could:
- Process documents in under 5 seconds
- Cost less than $0.01 per page
- Return clean Markdown instead of raw text
Our solution
We built StartOCR on Cloudflare Workers with D1 for storage and R2 for files. The PaddleOCR-VL backend runs as a queue consumer.
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