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Azure Document Intelligence vs dots.ocr

Dots.ocr is cheaper per page; only Azure Document Intelligence supports forms, handwriting, confidence; only dots.ocr supports math.

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Azure Document Intelligenceazure/document-intelligencedots.ocrrednote/dots-ocr
TypeOCR APIOpen source
Price15 credits / page2 credits / page
Per 1,000 pages$15.00$2.00
Typical speed1.5 s / page1.5 s / page
Best forEnterprise forms and IDsMultilingual document parsing
InputsPDF, imagesPDF, images
Languages300+ languages100+ languages
Max pages per request2,000500
Tables✓ Yes✓ Yes
Handwriting✓ YesNo
MathNo✓ Yes
Bounding boxes✓ Yes✓ Yes
Confidence✓ YesNo
Forms✓ YesNo
Multilingual✓ Yes✓ 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

Azure Document Intelligence

Azure layout model with tables, selection marks and prebuilt invoice and ID readers.

Azure Document Intelligence 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": "azure/document-intelligence",
  "fallbacks": ["rednote/dots-ocr"],
  "file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}

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