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dots.ocr vs Nanonets-OCR

Dots.ocr is faster; only dots.ocr supports bounding boxes; only Nanonets-OCR supports forms.

dots.ocrrednote/dots-ocrNanonets-OCRnanonets/nanonets-ocr
TypeOpen sourceOpen source
Price2 credits / page2 credits / page
Per 1,000 pages$2.00$2.00
Typical speed1.5 s / page1.8 s / page
Best forMultilingual document parsingMarkdown with semantic tags
InputsPDF, imagesPDF, images
Languages100+ languagesMultilingual
Max pages per request500500
Tables✓ Yes✓ Yes
HandwritingNoNo
Math✓ Yes✓ Yes
Bounding boxes✓ YesNo
ConfidenceNoNo
FormsNo✓ Yes
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

dots.ocr

Single vision model from rednote that does layout detection and content recognition together.

dots.ocr details

Nanonets-OCR

Open image-to-Markdown model that tags tables, equations, signatures, watermarks and checkboxes.

Nanonets-OCR details

Use one, fall back to the other

Request body
{
  "model": "rednote/dots-ocr",
  "fallbacks": ["nanonets/nanonets-ocr"],
  "file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}

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