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Azure Document Intelligence vs RapidOCR

RapidOCR is cheaper per page; RapidOCR is faster; only Azure Document Intelligence supports tables, forms, handwriting.

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Azure Document Intelligenceazure/document-intelligenceRapidOCRrapidai/rapidocr
TypeOCR APIOpen source
Price15 credits / page1 credit / page
Per 1,000 pages$15.00$1.00
Typical speed1.5 s / page0.6 s / page
Best forEnterprise forms and IDsLightweight OCR on CPU or edge
InputsPDF, imagesimages
Languages300+ languagesChinese, English and more
Max pages per request2,000100
Tables✓ YesNo
Handwriting✓ YesNo
MathNoNo
Bounding boxes✓ Yes✓ Yes
Confidence✓ Yes✓ Yes
Forms✓ YesNo
Multilingual✓ Yes✓ Yes
On OCRRouterAvailableComing soon

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

RapidOCR

PaddleOCR models packaged for ONNX Runtime and other engines. Easy to deploy without Paddle.

RapidOCR details

Use one, fall back to the other

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

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