OCR Forge makes enterprise-grade document processing accessible to every South African business — at a price that makes sense.
OCR Forge was born out of a simple frustration: why should South African businesses pay R75–R225 per thousand pages for OCR, when the technology to do it better exists?
Built by BoerTech in Cape Town, OCR Forge is an open-source platform that brings AI-powered document processing to businesses of all sizes. We run on AWS af-south-1 — right here in South Africa — so your data stays local and POPIA compliant.
From municipality billing to SARS submissions, from medical claims to farm invoices, we help South African organisations turn paper into structured data at a fraction of the cost of commercial alternatives.
Your documents stay in South Africa. Our primary infrastructure runs in AWS Cape Town (af-south-1), with full POPIA compliance.
No per-seat licensing, no hidden fees. Start free with 50 pages a month and scale up only when you need to. All prices in ZAR.
Our core OCR pipeline is open source. Inspect the code, self-host if you want, or use our managed platform — it's your choice.
AI-powered OCR with 99.2% accuracy, encryption at rest and in transit, and a developer-first REST API — at R0.09 per 1,000 pages.
OCR Forge is built for the South African market. Our platform handles the documents your business deals with every day.
Sign up for free and start processing documents in minutes. No credit card required.