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Google Cloud Vision OCR vs Unstructured

Google Cloud Vision OCR is cheaper per page; Google Cloud Vision OCR is faster; only Google Cloud Vision OCR supports handwriting, confidence; only Unstructured supports tables.

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Google Cloud Vision OCRgoogle/cloud-visionUnstructuredunstructured/unstructured
TypeOCR APIOCR API
Price2 credits / page20 credits / page
Per 1,000 pages$2.00$20.00
Typical speed1.0 s / page3.0 s / page
Best forPhotos and simple scansMixed file types into RAG
InputsPDF, imagesPDF, images, DOCX
Languages100+ languagesMultilingual
Max pages per request2,0001,000
TablesNo✓ Yes
Handwriting✓ YesNo
MathNoNo
Bounding boxes✓ Yes✓ Yes
Confidence✓ YesNo
FormsNoNo
Multilingual✓ Yes✓ Yes
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What each one is

Google Cloud Vision OCR

Google Cloud's image OCR with text and document text detection, word boxes and confidence.

Google Cloud Vision OCR details

Unstructured

Document ETL for RAG. Partitions many file types into typed elements; open-source library too.

Unstructured details

Use one, fall back to the other

Request body
{
  "model": "google/cloud-vision",
  "fallbacks": ["unstructured/unstructured"],
  "file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}

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