docTR vs Google Cloud Vision OCR
DocTR is cheaper per page; docTR is faster; only Google Cloud Vision OCR supports handwriting, multilingual.
docTRmindee/doctr | Google Cloud Vision OCRgoogle/cloud-vision | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Open source | OCR API |
| Price | 1 credit / page | 2 credits / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $1.00 | $2.00 |
| Typical speed | 0.9 s / page | 1.0 s / page |
| Best for | Word-level OCR with positions | Photos and simple scans |
| Inputs | PDF, images | PDF, images |
| Languages | Mainly Latin scripts | 100+ languages |
| Max pages per request | 500 | 2,000 |
| Tables | No | No |
| Handwriting | No | ✓ Yes |
| Math | No | No |
| Bounding boxes | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Confidence | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Forms | No | No |
| Multilingual | No | ✓ Yes |
| On OCRRouter | Coming soon | Coming soon |
Prices are what you pay on OCRRouter. Speed is the provider's typical figure, not a benchmark we ran.
What each one is
docTR
Open-source OCR library from Mindee with separate text detection and recognition models.
docTR detailsGoogle Cloud Vision OCR
Google Cloud's image OCR with text and document text detection, word boxes and confidence.
Google Cloud Vision OCR detailsUse one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "mindee/doctr",
"fallbacks": ["google/cloud-vision"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}