PaddleOCR (PP-OCR) vs Google Cloud Vision OCR
PaddleOCR (PP-OCR) is cheaper per page; PaddleOCR (PP-OCR) is faster; only Google Cloud Vision OCR supports handwriting.
PaddleOCR (PP-OCR)paddle/paddleocr | 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 | 0.7 s / page | 1.0 s / page |
| Best for | Fast printed text, Chinese and English | Photos and simple scans |
| Inputs | PDF, images | PDF, images |
| Languages | 80+ languages | 100+ languages |
| Max pages per request | 500 | 2,000 |
| Tables | No | No |
| Handwriting | No | ✓ Yes |
| Math | No | No |
| Bounding boxes | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Confidence | ✓ Yes | ✓ 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
PaddleOCR (PP-OCR)
Baidu's classic open-source text detection and recognition pipeline. Light enough to run on CPU.
PaddleOCR (PP-OCR) 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": "paddle/paddleocr",
"fallbacks": ["google/cloud-vision"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}Questions
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