Register OCR costs and the AI switch
Reading register pages uses Vianney's AI, which costs real money — so the costs are small, visible, and capped, and the whole feature has its own switch.
What it costs
Scanning runs roughly $0.03–0.05 per page, so a 300-page register book comes to about $10–15 — approximately; the batch report shows your actual spend. Only scanning costs anything: creating batches, uploading photos, reviewing, and confirming are free.
Every page counts once
- A page is charged once, no matter how many attempts it took to read. If a page has to be tried again, that retry does not spend a second time.
- A page that never reads successfully is not charged at all. It lands on Failed and you can retry or replace it; nothing goes onto your bill for a page that produced nothing.
- So the total on the batch report is what the book genuinely cost you — the number of pages that were read, not the number of attempts it took to read them.
The switch
The feature is controlled by the Register book OCR import toggle under Settings → AI add-on. Switched off, the scan button simply refuses — nothing can spend while it's off.
The batch cap
Each batch has a $25 scanning cap as a safety net. If a batch reaches it, scanning pauses and the workspace shows Paused at cost cap with a Continue anyway button — spending past the cap is always your explicit choice, never automatic. Because every page counts once, the figure the cap is measuring is the book's real spend.
Where you can see the spend
- The batch completion report shows the batch's total scanning cost and the average per page.
- Settings → AI add-on shows register OCR alongside all other AI usage in the parish's metered usage.
Questions? [support@vianney.church](mailto:support@vianney.church)