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Docling vs Nanonets-OCR

Nanonets-OCR is faster; only Docling supports bounding boxes; only Nanonets-OCR supports forms, multilingual.

Doclingibm/doclingNanonets-OCRnanonets/nanonets-ocr
TypeOpen sourceOpen source
Price2 credits / page2 credits / page
Per 1,000 pages$2.00$2.00
Typical speed2.2 s / page1.8 s / page
Best forStructured export for RAGMarkdown with semantic tags
InputsPDF, images, DOCXPDF, images
LanguagesLatin scripts, CJKMultilingual
Max pages per request500500
Tables✓ Yes✓ Yes
HandwritingNoNo
Math✓ Yes✓ Yes
Bounding boxes✓ YesNo
ConfidenceNoNo
FormsNo✓ Yes
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

Nanonets-OCR

Open image-to-Markdown model that tags tables, equations, signatures, watermarks and checkboxes.

Nanonets-OCR details

Use one, fall back to the other

Request body
{
  "model": "ibm/docling",
  "fallbacks": ["nanonets/nanonets-ocr"],
  "file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}

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