Azure Document Intelligence vs PaddleOCR-VL
PaddleOCR-VL is cheaper per page; PaddleOCR-VL is faster; only Azure Document Intelligence supports forms, handwriting; only PaddleOCR-VL supports math.
Azure Document Intelligenceazure/document-intelligence | PaddleOCR-VLpaddle/paddleocr-vl | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | OCR API | Open source |
| Price | 15 credits / page | 2 credits / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $15.00 | $2.00 |
| Typical speed | 1.5 s / page | 1.3 s / page |
| Best for | Enterprise forms and IDs | CJK documents |
| Inputs | PDF, images | PDF, images |
| Languages | 300+ languages | 109 languages |
| Max pages per request | 2,000 | 500 |
| Tables | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Handwriting | ✓ Yes | No |
| Math | No | ✓ Yes |
| Bounding boxes | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Confidence | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Forms | ✓ Yes | No |
| Multilingual | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| On OCRRouter | Available | Available |
Prices are what you pay on OCRRouter. Speed is the provider's typical figure, not a benchmark we ran.
What each one is
Azure Document Intelligence
Azure layout model with tables, selection marks and prebuilt invoice and ID readers.
Azure Document Intelligence detailsPaddleOCR-VL
Open-source document model from Baidu. Excellent on Chinese, Japanese and Korean.
PaddleOCR-VL detailsTry both on your own file
Run the file once with each model and compare the output.
النتيجة
سيظهر ناتج Markdown أو JSON هنا.
Use one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "azure/document-intelligence",
"fallbacks": ["paddle/paddleocr-vl"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}Questions
More comparisons
PaddleOCR-VL vs DoclingPaddleOCR-VL vs TesseractMistral OCR vs Azure Document IntelligenceMistral OCR vs PaddleOCR-VLGemini Flash vs Azure Document IntelligenceGemini Flash vs PaddleOCR-VLGPT vs Azure Document IntelligenceGPT vs PaddleOCR-VL
Azure Document Intelligence alternativesPaddleOCR-VL alternatives