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Surya vs Typhoon OCR

Surya is faster; only Surya supports bounding boxes.

Suryadatalab/suryaTyphoon OCRtyphoon/typhoon-ocr
TypeOpen sourceOpen source
Price2 credits / page2 credits / page
Per 1,000 pages$2.00$2.00
Typical speed1.5 s / page1.8 s / page
Best forLayout and line-level OCRThai documents
InputsPDF, imagesPDF, images
Languages90+ languagesThai, English
Max pages per request500500
Tables✓ Yes✓ Yes
HandwritingNoNo
MathNoNo
Bounding boxes✓ YesNo
ConfidenceNoNo
FormsNoNo
Multilingual✓ Yes✓ Yes
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Prices are what you pay on OCRRouter. Speed is the provider's typical figure, not a benchmark we ran.

What each one is

Surya

Open-source OCR toolkit with line detection, layout analysis, reading order and tables.

Surya details

Typhoon OCR

Open vision model tuned for Thai and English documents, with Markdown output.

Typhoon OCR details

Use one, fall back to the other

Request body
{
  "model": "datalab/surya",
  "fallbacks": ["typhoon/typhoon-ocr"],
  "file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}

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