EasyOCR vs Granite Docling
EasyOCR is faster; only EasyOCR supports confidence, multilingual; only Granite Docling supports tables, math.
EasyOCRjaided/easyocr | Granite Doclingibm/granite-docling | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Open source | Open source |
| Price | 1 credit / page | 1 credit / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $1.00 | $1.00 |
| Typical speed | 0.9 s / page | 1.5 s / page |
| Best for | Quick scripts and scene text | Small-model document conversion |
| Inputs | images | PDF, images |
| Languages | 80+ languages | English, experimental CJK and Arabic |
| Max pages per request | 100 | 500 |
| Tables | No | ✓ Yes |
| Handwriting | No | No |
| Math | No | ✓ Yes |
| Bounding boxes | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Confidence | ✓ Yes | No |
| Forms | No | No |
| Multilingual | ✓ Yes | No |
| On OCRRouter | Coming soon | 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
EasyOCR
Python OCR library with a simple API. Returns text lines with boxes and confidence.
EasyOCR detailsGranite Docling
Compact IBM vision model that converts pages to DocTags for the Docling pipeline.
Granite Docling detailsUse one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "jaided/easyocr",
"fallbacks": ["ibm/granite-docling"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}