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Claude vs docTR

DocTR is cheaper per page; docTR is faster; only Claude supports tables, handwriting, math, multilingual; only docTR supports bounding boxes, confidence.

Claudeanthropic/claudedocTRmindee/doctr
TypeVision modelOpen source
Price14 credits / page1 credit / page
Per 1,000 pages$14.00$1.00
Typical speed2.6 s / page0.9 s / page
Best forLong dense documentsWord-level OCR with positions
InputsPDF, imagesPDF, images
Languages50+ languagesMainly Latin scripts
Max pages per request100500
Tables✓ YesNo
Handwriting✓ YesNo
Math✓ YesNo
Bounding boxesNo✓ Yes
ConfidenceNo✓ Yes
FormsNoNo
Multilingual✓ YesNo
On OCRRouterAvailableComing soon

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

What each one is

Claude

General vision model with careful reading of long, dense documents.

Claude details

docTR

Open-source OCR library from Mindee with separate text detection and recognition models.

docTR details

Use one, fall back to the other

Request body
{
  "model": "anthropic/claude",
  "fallbacks": ["mindee/doctr"],
  "file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}

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