Both ground every answer in the document. Only one also covers your photos, audio, and video — at the word level, even on scans.
Landing AI's Agentic Document Extraction (ADE) is a developer API suite for turning documents into structured data, with bounding-box citations for auditability. Roysa TrueTrace shares that evidence-first philosophy — and extends it beyond documents. The same word-level grounding that covers born-digital PDFs also covers scanned paper, photos, audio recordings, and video, inside a workspace that business teams can use without writing a line of code.
| Roysa TrueTrace | Landing AI (ADE) | |
|---|---|---|
| Modalities | Documents, images, audio, and video — one platform, one credit balance | Documents and scans (PDFs, forms, spreadsheets) |
| Source grounding | Word-level bounding boxes on every answer — including scanned documents — plus objects in photos, on-screen text, and audio/video timestamps | Bounding-box citations on documents (page, coordinates, table cells) |
| Object detection | People, vehicles, equipment, signatures, stamps, damage, and safety gear in images and video frames | — |
| Audio & video | Transcription with speaker labels and timestamps, on-screen text reading, scene and object recognition | Not supported |
| Rules-based review | Plain-English checklists checked rule by rule — pass/fail with the exact word, object, or moment as proof | Build your own on top of the APIs |
| Who can use it | Business teams in the TrueTrace web workspace — plus developers via REST API and MCP server | Developers, via REST APIs and Python/TypeScript libraries |
| Getting started | Self-serve: 100 free credits, 14-day trial, public pricing | Free trial; usage-based API pricing |
Comparison based on each vendor's publicly available materials as of July 2026. Product capabilities change — always check the vendor's own site for current details.
TrueTrace annotates scanned documents at the word level: every extracted value is pinned to the exact word on the page, whether the source is a clean PDF or a noisy, skewed scan. For claims adjusters and loan reviewers, that's the difference between verifying in one glance and re-reading the page.
Real case files aren't just documents. An insurance claim is a policy PDF plus damage photos plus a recorded statement plus an inspection video. TrueTrace processes all of them in one workflow, with one kind of proof: the exact word, object, frame, or timestamp behind every answer.
Landing AI is built for developers assembling pipelines. TrueTrace works both ways: business users upload files and ask in plain English, while developers get the same skills through a REST API and an MCP server.
If you're an engineering team building a custom, documents-only extraction pipeline and want to assemble your own workflow from modular parse, extract, split, and classify APIs, Landing AI is a strong, well-established choice. Roysa is the better fit when your files aren't only documents, when reviewers need word-level proof without building a UI first, or when a business team needs verified answers today.
Yes. Both products extract structured data from documents with bounding-box grounding for auditability. Roysa TrueTrace additionally processes audio and video, detects objects in images, includes a rules-based review skill, and ships a ready-made web workspace, so business teams can use it without building an application first.
Yes — at the word level. TrueTrace annotates scanned documents word by word, so every extracted value points to the exact word on the scan, not just a page or region. The same grounding extends to objects in photos, on-screen text in video, and timestamps in audio.
Yes. Every TrueTrace skill — Ask, Extract, Review, Translate, Transcribe, and Geo — is available as a REST API, and an MCP server lets AI agents use TrueTrace natively. API calls draw from the same credit balance as the app, at a discounted rate.
Upload a document, image, audio, or video file and watch every answer point to its exact source.