OCRmyPDF vs Google Cloud Vision OCR
OCRmyPDF is cheaper per page; only Google Cloud Vision OCR supports handwriting, bounding boxes, confidence.
OCRmyPDFocrmypdf/ocrmypdf | Google Cloud Vision OCRgoogle/cloud-vision | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Open source | OCR API |
| Price | 1 credit / page | 2 credits / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $1.00 | $2.00 |
| Typical speed | 1.0 s / page | 1.0 s / page |
| Best for | Searchable PDFs from scans | Photos and simple scans |
| Inputs | PDF, images | PDF, images |
| Languages | 100+ languages (via Tesseract) | 100+ languages |
| Max pages per request | 1,000 | 2,000 |
| Tables | No | No |
| Handwriting | No | ✓ Yes |
| Math | No | No |
| Bounding boxes | No | ✓ Yes |
| Confidence | No | ✓ Yes |
| 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
OCRmyPDF
Command-line tool that adds a searchable text layer to scanned PDFs, using Tesseract.
OCRmyPDF detailsGoogle Cloud Vision OCR
Google Cloud's image OCR with text and document text detection, word boxes and confidence.
Google Cloud Vision OCR detailsUse one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "ocrmypdf/ocrmypdf",
"fallbacks": ["google/cloud-vision"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}