Amazon Textract vs Qianfan OCR
Qianfan OCR is cheaper per page; Amazon Textract is faster; only Amazon Textract supports forms, bounding boxes, confidence; only Qianfan OCR supports math, multilingual.
Amazon Textractaws/textract | Qianfan OCRbaidu/qianfan-ocr | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | OCR API | OCR API |
| Price | 6 credits / page | 1 credits / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $6.00 | $1.00 |
| Typical speed | 1.2 s / page | 2.0 s / page |
| Best for | Forms and key-value extraction | Chinese documents |
| Inputs | PDF, images | PDF, images |
| Languages | 6 languages | Chinese, English and more |
| Max pages per request | 3,000 | 200 |
| Tables | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Handwriting | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Math | No | ✓ Yes |
| Bounding boxes | ✓ Yes | No |
| Confidence | ✓ Yes | No |
| Forms | ✓ Yes | No |
| Multilingual | No | ✓ Yes |
| On OCRRouter | Available | Available |
Prices are what you pay on OCRRouter. Speed is the provider's typical figure, not a benchmark we ran.
What each one is
Amazon Textract
AWS OCR with form key-value pairs, tables and per-word confidence scores.
Amazon Textract detailsQianfan OCR
Baidu's OCR-tuned vision model. Strong on Chinese documents and tables.
Qianfan OCR detailsTry both on your own file
Run the file once with each model and compare the output.
Result
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Use one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "aws/textract",
"fallbacks": ["baidu/qianfan-ocr"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}