Tesseract vs Hunyuan OCR
Tesseract is cheaper per page; Tesseract is faster; only Hunyuan OCR supports tables, math, bounding boxes.
Tesseracttesseract/tesseract | Hunyuan OCRtencent/hunyuan-ocr | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Open source | Open source |
| Price | Free | 2 credits / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $0.00 | $2.00 |
| Typical speed | 0.6 s / page | 1.5 s / page |
| Best for | Clean printed text, free | Chinese documents and photos |
| Inputs | PDF, images | PDF, images |
| Languages | 100+ languages | 100+ languages |
| Max pages per request | 500 | 500 |
| Tables | No | ✓ Yes |
| Handwriting | No | No |
| Math | No | ✓ Yes |
| Bounding boxes | No | ✓ Yes |
| Confidence | No | No |
| Forms | No | No |
| Multilingual | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| 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
Hunyuan OCR
Small end-to-end OCR model from Tencent covering parsing, extraction and photo translation.
Hunyuan OCR detailsUse one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "tesseract/tesseract",
"fallbacks": ["tencent/hunyuan-ocr"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}