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EasyOCR vs Hunyuan OCR

EasyOCR is cheaper per page; EasyOCR is faster; only EasyOCR supports confidence; only Hunyuan OCR supports tables, math.

EasyOCRjaided/easyocrHunyuan OCRtencent/hunyuan-ocr
TypeOpen sourceOpen source
Price1 credit / page2 credits / page
Per 1,000 pages$1.00$2.00
Typical speed0.9 s / page1.5 s / page
Best forQuick scripts and scene textChinese documents and photos
InputsimagesPDF, images
Languages80+ languages100+ languages
Max pages per request100500
TablesNo✓ Yes
HandwritingNoNo
MathNo✓ Yes
Bounding boxes✓ Yes✓ Yes
Confidence✓ YesNo
FormsNoNo
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

EasyOCR

Python OCR library with a simple API. Returns text lines with boxes and confidence.

EasyOCR details

Hunyuan OCR

Small end-to-end OCR model from Tencent covering parsing, extraction and photo translation.

Hunyuan OCR details

Use one, fall back to the other

Request body
{
  "model": "jaided/easyocr",
  "fallbacks": ["tencent/hunyuan-ocr"],
  "file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}

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