MinerU vs Typhoon OCR
Typhoon OCR is faster; only MinerU supports math, bounding boxes.
MinerUopendatalab/mineru | Typhoon OCRtyphoon/typhoon-ocr | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Open source | Open source |
| Price | 2 credits / page | 2 credits / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $2.00 | $2.00 |
| Typical speed | 2.0 s / page | 1.8 s / page |
| Best for | Academic PDFs | Thai documents |
| Inputs | PDF, images | PDF, images |
| Languages | 80+ languages | Thai, English |
| Max pages per request | 500 | 500 |
| Tables | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Handwriting | No | No |
| Math | ✓ Yes | No |
| Bounding boxes | ✓ Yes | No |
| Confidence | No | No |
| Forms | No | No |
| Multilingual | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| 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
MinerU
Open-source PDF to Markdown pipeline popular for academic and Chinese documents.
MinerU detailsTyphoon OCR
Open vision model tuned for Thai and English documents, with Markdown output.
Typhoon OCR detailsUse one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "opendatalab/mineru",
"fallbacks": ["typhoon/typhoon-ocr"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}