Azure Document Intelligence vs TrOCR
TrOCR is cheaper per page; TrOCR is faster; only Azure Document Intelligence supports tables, forms, bounding boxes, confidence, multilingual.
Azure Document Intelligenceazure/document-intelligence | TrOCRmicrosoft/trocr | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | OCR API | Open source |
| Price | 15 credits / page | 1 credit / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $15.00 | $1.00 |
| Typical speed | 1.5 s / page | 1.2 s / page |
| Best for | Enterprise forms and IDs | Handwritten text lines |
| Inputs | PDF, images | images |
| Languages | 300+ languages | English |
| Max pages per request | 2,000 | 100 |
| Tables | ✓ Yes | No |
| Handwriting | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Math | No | No |
| Bounding boxes | ✓ Yes | No |
| Confidence | ✓ Yes | No |
| Forms | ✓ Yes | No |
| Multilingual | ✓ Yes | No |
| On OCRRouter | Available | 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
Azure Document Intelligence
Azure layout model with tables, selection marks and prebuilt invoice and ID readers.
Azure Document Intelligence detailsTrOCR
Transformer text recognition model. Reads single text lines, including handwriting.
TrOCR detailsUse one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "azure/document-intelligence",
"fallbacks": ["microsoft/trocr"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}