RapidOCRrapidai/rapidocr | docTRmindee/doctr | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Open source | Open source |
| Price | 1 credit / page | 1 credit / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $1.00 | $1.00 |
| Typical speed | 0.6 s / page | 0.9 s / page |
| Best for | Lightweight OCR on CPU or edge | Word-level OCR with positions |
| Inputs | images | PDF, images |
| Languages | Chinese, English and more | Mainly Latin scripts |
| Max pages per request | 100 | 500 |
| Tables | No | No |
| Handwriting | No | No |
| Math | No | No |
| Bounding boxes | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Confidence | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| 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
RapidOCR
PaddleOCR models packaged for ONNX Runtime and other engines. Easy to deploy without Paddle.
RapidOCR detailsdocTR
Open-source OCR library from Mindee with separate text detection and recognition models.
docTR detailsUse one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "rapidai/rapidocr",
"fallbacks": ["mindee/doctr"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}