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docTR vs Typhoon OCR

DocTR is cheaper per page; docTR is faster; only docTR supports bounding boxes, confidence; only Typhoon OCR supports tables, multilingual.

docTRmindee/doctrTyphoon OCRtyphoon/typhoon-ocr
TypeOpen sourceOpen source
Price1 credit / page2 credits / page
Per 1,000 pages$1.00$2.00
Typical speed0.9 s / page1.8 s / page
Best forWord-level OCR with positionsThai documents
InputsPDF, imagesPDF, images
LanguagesMainly Latin scriptsThai, English
Max pages per request500500
TablesNo✓ Yes
HandwritingNoNo
MathNoNo
Bounding boxes✓ YesNo
Confidence✓ YesNo
FormsNoNo
MultilingualNo✓ Yes
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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 details

Typhoon OCR

Open vision model tuned for Thai and English documents, with Markdown output.

Typhoon OCR details

Use one, fall back to the other

Request body
{
  "model": "mindee/doctr",
  "fallbacks": ["typhoon/typhoon-ocr"],
  "file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}

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