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Docling vs dots.ocr

Dots.ocr is faster; only dots.ocr supports multilingual.

Doclingibm/doclingdots.ocrrednote/dots-ocr
TypeOpen sourceOpen source
Price2 credits / page2 credits / page
Per 1,000 pages$2.00$2.00
Typical speed2.2 s / page1.5 s / page
Best forStructured export for RAGMultilingual document parsing
InputsPDF, images, DOCXPDF, images
LanguagesLatin scripts, CJK100+ languages
Max pages per request500500
Tables✓ Yes✓ Yes
HandwritingNoNo
Math✓ Yes✓ Yes
Bounding boxes✓ Yes✓ Yes
ConfidenceNoNo
FormsNoNo
MultilingualNo✓ 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

Docling

IBM's open-source document converter with a structured document model.

Docling 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": "ibm/docling",
  "fallbacks": ["rednote/dots-ocr"],
  "file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}

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