OCRmyPDF vs Typhoon OCR
OCRmyPDF is cheaper per page; OCRmyPDF is faster; only Typhoon OCR supports tables.
OCRmyPDFocrmypdf/ocrmypdf | Typhoon OCRtyphoon/typhoon-ocr | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Open source | Open source |
| Price | 1 credit / page | 2 credits / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $1.00 | $2.00 |
| Typical speed | 1.0 s / page | 1.8 s / page |
| Best for | Searchable PDFs from scans | Thai documents |
| Inputs | PDF, images | PDF, images |
| Languages | 100+ languages (via Tesseract) | Thai, English |
| Max pages per request | 1,000 | 500 |
| Tables | No | ✓ Yes |
| Handwriting | No | No |
| Math | No | No |
| Bounding boxes | No | 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
OCRmyPDF
Command-line tool that adds a searchable text layer to scanned PDFs, using Tesseract.
OCRmyPDF 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": "ocrmypdf/ocrmypdf",
"fallbacks": ["typhoon/typhoon-ocr"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}