Tesseract vs Typhoon OCR
Tesseract is cheaper per page; Tesseract is faster; only Typhoon OCR supports tables.
Tesseracttesseract/tesseract | Typhoon OCRtyphoon/typhoon-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 | 1.8 s / page |
| Best for | Clean printed text, free | Thai documents |
| Inputs | PDF, images | PDF, images |
| Languages | 100+ languages | Thai, English |
| Max pages per request | 500 | 500 |
| Tables | No | ✓ Yes |
| Handwriting | No | No |
| Math | No | No |
| Bounding boxes | No | No |
| 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
Typhoon OCR
Open vision model tuned for Thai and English documents, with Markdown output.
Typhoon OCR detailsUse one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "tesseract/tesseract",
"fallbacks": ["typhoon/typhoon-ocr"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}