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Azure Document Intelligence vs OCRmyPDF

OCRmyPDF is cheaper per page; OCRmyPDF is faster; only Azure Document Intelligence supports tables, forms, handwriting, bounding boxes, confidence.

Azure Document Intelligenceazure/document-intelligenceOCRmyPDFocrmypdf/ocrmypdf
TypeOCR APIOpen source
Price15 credits / page1 credit / page
Per 1,000 pages$15.00$1.00
Typical speed1.5 s / page1.0 s / page
Best forEnterprise forms and IDsSearchable PDFs from scans
InputsPDF, imagesPDF, images
Languages300+ languages100+ languages (via Tesseract)
Max pages per request2,0001,000
Tables✓ YesNo
Handwriting✓ YesNo
MathNoNo
Bounding boxes✓ YesNo
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

OCRmyPDF

Command-line tool that adds a searchable text layer to scanned PDFs, using Tesseract.

OCRmyPDF details

Use one, fall back to the other

Request body
{
  "model": "azure/document-intelligence",
  "fallbacks": ["ocrmypdf/ocrmypdf"],
  "file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}

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