Kraken vs TrOCR
TrOCR is faster; only Kraken supports bounding boxes, multilingual.
Krakenkraken/kraken | TrOCRmicrosoft/trocr | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Open source | Open source |
| Price | 1 credit / page | 1 credit / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $1.00 | $1.00 |
| Typical speed | 1.5 s / page | 1.2 s / page |
| Best for | Historical documents and manuscripts | Handwritten text lines |
| Inputs | images | images |
| Languages | Many scripts, incl. right-to-left | English |
| Max pages per request | 500 | 100 |
| Tables | No | No |
| Handwriting | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Math | No | No |
| Bounding boxes | ✓ Yes | No |
| Confidence | No | 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
Kraken
OCR engine for historical documents and manuscripts, with trainable models for unusual scripts.
Kraken detailsTrOCR
Transformer text recognition model. Reads single text lines, including handwriting.
TrOCR detailsUse one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "kraken/kraken",
"fallbacks": ["microsoft/trocr"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}