We're fixing how software reads documents.
We built an intelligent document processing API and Visual Editor that uses advanced multimodal AI. You upload PDFs or images, and our system parses layout, extracts structured data based on your schema, and handles complex document tasks without brittle optical character recognition pipelines.
Parse, Extract, Split, and Fill. One credit-based API.
The real problem
The world runs on documents. Invoices, contracts, forms, and reports are the lifeblood of business operations. But for software, these documents are black boxes. They are unstructured pixels that computers cannot easily understand.
To turn these documents into usable data, companies have relied on legacy Optical Character Recognition (OCR) tech that is decades old. It's brittle, requires endless configuration, and breaks the moment a layout changes slightly.
Right now, building document pipelines is a nightmare.
The integration trap
Even a simple task like extracting a total from an invoice often means managing complex PDF libraries, training custom ML models, dealing with infrastructure scaling, and manually handling errors every time a new format appears.
When automation fails, companies fall back to the slowest, most expensive API of all: humans. Manual data entry creates a whole new set of problems:
- It is slow, unscalable, and error-prone.
- Sensitive data is exposed to manual reviewers.
- Engineering teams waste time maintaining brittle parsers.
Everyone loses. Operations slow down, developers are frustrated, and valuable data remains locked inside PDFs.
What we built
We built a unified infrastructure layer for documents. By leveraging the latest multimodal AI models, our API "sees" documents the way a human does - understanding layout, context, tables, and visuals instantly.
You stay in control
Use our Parse mode to convert PDFs to clean Markdown. Use Extract to get structured JSON based on your exact schema. Use Split to intelligently separate large files, or Fill to programmatically complete forms.
It is a simple, credit-based system designed for scale. You only pay for the pages you process.
Stop building parsers.
One Platform for everything
Instead of juggling five different libraries for PDFs, images, and OCR, use one unified Platform for all document tasks.
Guaranteed Structure
Stop writing regex to clean up messy OCR output. Define your JSON schema and get back data that matches it perfectly, every time.
Standardized DX
Enjoy a modern Platform experience with idempotency keys, standardized error responses, and webhooks.
Automate manual work.
Handles High Variability
Our AI models handle layout changes, scans, and complex tables automatically without retraining.
Secure & Compliant
We offer secure storage and processing designed for enterprise needs. Your data is processed securely and not used for training public models.
Transparent Billing
Simple per-page pricing. Scale up or down instantly without worrying about infrastructure costs.
Why now
Until recently, computers could only read text letter-by-letter. They had no concept of layout, visual hierarchy, or context. That changed with the arrival of LLMs.
Software can finally understand documents like humans do:
- Multimodal models see layout and text simultaneously.
- Complex tables and charts can be parsed instantly.
- Brittle, template-based OCR is obsolete.
Fous is building the infrastructure to bring this capability to every developer. Not five years from now. Right now.
Our team
We're two founders who got frustrated watching developers struggle with brittle document parsing pipelines while powerful AI models existed that could solve the problem. So we decided to build the infrastructure layer for it.
We're hiring.
We care about what you have built and how you think. If you believe in our mission and enjoy solving infrastructure challenges, email us at hello@fous.com
What's next
Imagine an application where users upload any file - a scanned form, a complex financial report, or a photo of a receipt - and your software instantly understands it and populates your database correctly.
We think manual data entry from documents should be a thing of the past. We're building the infrastructure that makes unstructured documents as easy to work with as a standard API.
Ready to build something?
Join the waitlist to get early access.
Last updated: January 2026