Qianfan OCR vs TrOCR
TrOCR is faster; only Qianfan OCR supports tables, math, multilingual.
Qianfan OCRbaidu/qianfan-ocr | TrOCRmicrosoft/trocr | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | OCR API | Open source |
| Price | 1 credit / page | 1 credit / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $1.00 | $1.00 |
| Typical speed | 2.0 s / page | 1.2 s / page |
| Best for | Chinese documents | Handwritten text lines |
| Inputs | PDF, images | images |
| Languages | Chinese, English and more | English |
| Max pages per request | 200 | 100 |
| Tables | ✓ Yes | No |
| Handwriting | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Math | ✓ Yes | No |
| Bounding boxes | No | No |
| Confidence | No | No |
| Forms | No | No |
| Multilingual | ✓ Yes | No |
| On OCRRouter | Available | 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
Qianfan OCR
Baidu's OCR-tuned vision model. Strong on Chinese documents and tables.
Qianfan OCR detailsTrOCR
Transformer text recognition model. Reads single text lines, including handwriting.
TrOCR detailsUse one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "baidu/qianfan-ocr",
"fallbacks": ["microsoft/trocr"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}