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MinerU vs dots.ocr

Dots.ocr is faster.

MinerUopendatalab/minerudots.ocrrednote/dots-ocr
TypeOpen sourceOpen source
Price2 credits / page2 credits / page
Per 1,000 pages$2.00$2.00
Typical speed2.0 s / page1.5 s / page
Best forAcademic PDFsMultilingual document parsing
InputsPDF, imagesPDF, images
Languages80+ languages100+ languages
Max pages per request500500
Tables✓ Yes✓ Yes
HandwritingNoNo
Math✓ Yes✓ Yes
Bounding boxes✓ Yes✓ Yes
ConfidenceNoNo
FormsNoNo
Multilingual✓ Yes✓ Yes
On OCRRouterComing soonComing soon

Prices are what you pay on OCRRouter. Speed is the provider's typical figure, not a benchmark we ran.

What each one is

MinerU

Open-source PDF to Markdown pipeline popular for academic and Chinese documents.

MinerU details

dots.ocr

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

dots.ocr details

Use one, fall back to the other

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

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