LensCopy vs Google Cloud Vision OCR

TL;DR

• LensCopy is a hosted, browser-first OCR product that returns clean markdown — no GCP project, no service account, no SDK.
• Google Cloud Vision (and its higher-end sibling, Document AI) is a developer-only API. Powerful, but you build the application layer yourself.
• Pricing: LensCopy is a flat subscription. Cloud Vision is pay-per-image at ~$1.50 per 1,000 calls beyond the first 1,000 free per month. Document AI specialty processors are billed separately.