Two tools independently arrived at the same conviction: technicians deserve a cited answer with the source page shown, not a folder of 300-page PDFs. If you're evaluating Rheba — or looking for a Rheba alternative you can buy without a procurement cycle — here's the fair comparison.
Rheba's product philosophy is right, and we'll say so: answers only from your documentation, a clear "not found" instead of a confident guess, and the exact source page displayed with its diagrams so an engineer can verify with their own eyes. That's how a tool earns trust on a factory floor. If your organization requires EU data residency or on-premises deployment — pharmaceutical, medical device, regulated European manufacturing — Rheba built specifically for you, and you should talk to them.
| Rheba | Doc Lookup | |
|---|---|---|
| How you buy | Book a demo call; pricing not published | Prices on the page — $19/mo solo, $99/mo per 10-tech team; account the same day |
| Built for | European factory floors — logistics, pharma, food & beverage plants | US field technicians — copier/printer, HVAC, AV, appliance; the tech in the truck, not just the plant |
| Cited answers with the real page | Yes — built-in PDF viewer | Yes — tap any citation to see the page, diagrams included |
| Big OEM manuals (1,000+ pages) | Supported | Routine — 2,700-page, 130 MB manuals indexed whole |
| Scanned manuals | Supported | AI-read page-by-page (~half a cent/page), then indexed like any manual |
| In the field | Desktop, tablet, mobile | Mobile-first, plus: photograph a nameplate or board label and it reads the model and searches your library |
| Getting manuals in | Upload PDFs | Upload, drag-drop, paste — or import straight from a Box folder; early access includes us loading your library for you |
| Data residency | EU (Google Cloud EU regions); on-prem available | US (Cloudflare); private per-team workspaces |
| Team accountability | Audit logging | Per-person accounts, activity log, per-person usage and cost dashboard |
Rheba details from rheba.ai as of August 2026. If anything here is out of date, tell us and we'll correct it.
If you're a European manufacturer with a compliance department and an on-prem requirement, book Rheba's demo — that's their home turf. If you're a technician, a service shop, or a team lead in the US who wants this working this week without a sales cycle: that's exactly who Doc Lookup was built with. Our first user is a copier tech who loaded a 2,694-page Canon service manual on day one and asks it part-number questions from the field.
Also comparing the generalist route? See Doc Lookup vs ChatGPT — the honest version of that one too.
Early access includes us loading your first manuals for you. First month free, prices on the page, no demo call required.
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