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Nanonets-OCR vs Nougat

Nanonets-OCR is faster; only Nanonets-OCR supports forms, multilingual.

Nanonets-OCRnanonets/nanonets-ocrNougatmeta/nougat
TypeOpen sourceOpen source
Price2 credits / page2 credits / page
Per 1,000 pages$2.00$2.00
Typical speed1.8 s / page3.0 s / page
Best forMarkdown with semantic tagsarXiv-style papers
InputsPDF, imagesPDF, images
LanguagesMultilingualMainly English
Max pages per request500200
Tables✓ Yes✓ Yes
HandwritingNoNo
Math✓ Yes✓ Yes
Bounding boxesNoNo
ConfidenceNoNo
Forms✓ YesNo
Multilingual✓ YesNo
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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

Nanonets-OCR

Open image-to-Markdown model that tags tables, equations, signatures, watermarks and checkboxes.

Nanonets-OCR details

Nougat

Meta's model that converts academic PDFs to Markdown with LaTeX math.

Nougat details

Use one, fall back to the other

Request body
{
  "model": "nanonets/nanonets-ocr",
  "fallbacks": ["meta/nougat"],
  "file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}

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