TrOCR vs Google Cloud Vision OCR
TrOCR is cheaper per page; Google Cloud Vision OCR is faster; only Google Cloud Vision OCR supports bounding boxes, confidence, multilingual.
TrOCRmicrosoft/trocr | Google Cloud Vision OCRgoogle/cloud-vision | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Open source | OCR API |
| Price | 1 credit / page | 2 credits / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $1.00 | $2.00 |
| Typical speed | 1.2 s / page | 1.0 s / page |
| Best for | Handwritten text lines | Photos and simple scans |
| Inputs | images | PDF, images |
| Languages | English | 100+ languages |
| Max pages per request | 100 | 2,000 |
| Tables | No | No |
| Handwriting | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Math | No | No |
| Bounding boxes | No | ✓ Yes |
| Confidence | No | ✓ Yes |
| Forms | No | No |
| Multilingual | No | ✓ Yes |
| 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
TrOCR
Transformer text recognition model. Reads single text lines, including handwriting.
TrOCR detailsGoogle Cloud Vision OCR
Google Cloud's image OCR with text and document text detection, word boxes and confidence.
Google Cloud Vision OCR detailsUse one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "microsoft/trocr",
"fallbacks": ["google/cloud-vision"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}