docTR vs Kraken
DocTR is faster; only docTR supports confidence; only Kraken supports handwriting, multilingual.
docTRmindee/doctr | Krakenkraken/kraken | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Open source | Open source |
| Price | 1 credit / page | 1 credit / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $1.00 | $1.00 |
| Typical speed | 0.9 s / page | 1.5 s / page |
| Best for | Word-level OCR with positions | Historical documents and manuscripts |
| Inputs | PDF, images | images |
| Languages | Mainly Latin scripts | Many scripts, incl. right-to-left |
| Max pages per request | 500 | 500 |
| Tables | No | No |
| Handwriting | No | ✓ Yes |
| Math | No | No |
| Bounding boxes | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Confidence | ✓ Yes | No |
| 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 detailsKraken
OCR engine for historical documents and manuscripts, with trainable models for unusual scripts.
Kraken detailsUse one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "mindee/doctr",
"fallbacks": ["kraken/kraken"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}