OCRmyPDF vs Granite Docling
OCRmyPDF is faster; only OCRmyPDF supports multilingual; only Granite Docling supports tables, math, bounding boxes.
OCRmyPDFocrmypdf/ocrmypdf | Granite Doclingibm/granite-docling | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Open source | Open source |
| Price | 1 credit / page | 1 credit / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $1.00 | $1.00 |
| Typical speed | 1.0 s / page | 1.5 s / page |
| Best for | Searchable PDFs from scans | Small-model document conversion |
| Inputs | PDF, images | PDF, images |
| Languages | 100+ languages (via Tesseract) | English, experimental CJK and Arabic |
| Max pages per request | 1,000 | 500 |
| Tables | No | ✓ Yes |
| Handwriting | No | No |
| Math | No | ✓ Yes |
| Bounding boxes | No | ✓ Yes |
| 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
OCRmyPDF
Command-line tool that adds a searchable text layer to scanned PDFs, using Tesseract.
OCRmyPDF detailsGranite Docling
Compact IBM vision model that converts pages to DocTags for the Docling pipeline.
Granite Docling detailsUse one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "ocrmypdf/ocrmypdf",
"fallbacks": ["ibm/granite-docling"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}