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Unlimited OCR vs dots.ocr

Unlimited OCR is faster.

Unlimited OCRbaidu/unlimited-ocrdots.ocrrednote/dots-ocr
TypeOpen sourceOpen source
Price2 credits / page2 credits / page
Per 1,000 pages$2.00$2.00
Typical speed1.2 s / page1.5 s / page
Best forBooks and very long documentsMultilingual document parsing
InputsPDF, imagesPDF, images
Languages30+ languages100+ languages
Max pages per request1,000500
Tables✓ Yes✓ Yes
HandwritingNoNo
Math✓ Yes✓ Yes
Bounding boxes✓ Yes✓ Yes
ConfidenceNoNo
FormsNoNo
Multilingual✓ Yes✓ Yes
On OCRRouterComing soonComing soon

Prices are what you pay on OCRRouter. Speed is the provider's typical figure, not a benchmark we ran.

What each one is

Unlimited OCR

Open-source model from Baidu that reads hundreds of pages in one pass with flat memory use.

Unlimited OCR details

dots.ocr

Single vision model from rednote that does layout detection and content recognition together.

dots.ocr details

Use one, fall back to the other

Request body
{
  "model": "baidu/unlimited-ocr",
  "fallbacks": ["rednote/dots-ocr"],
  "file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}

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