Reducto Parse for Financial PDFs 2026: Buyer's Guide
Reducto document parsing API guide for financial PDFs: how it handles 10-Ks, scanned statements, and broken tables, plus pricing and 2026 alternatives.
Chapter 1: Why Financial PDFs Break Every Parser You've Tried You already know how this goes. Someone hands you a folder of 10-K filings, credit memos, or bank statements and says "just pull the numbers into the database." You reach for PyPDF or pdfplumber, write forty lines of code, run it on the first document, and it works. You run it on the next fifty and the wheels come off. Columns fuse together. Negative numbers lose their parentheses. A footnote lands in the middle of a revenue line. Half the pages come back empty because they were scanned at 200...