TrOCR vs dots.ocr
TrOCR is cheaper per page; TrOCR is faster; only TrOCR supports handwriting; only dots.ocr supports tables, math, bounding boxes, multilingual.
TrOCRmicrosoft/trocr | dots.ocrrednote/dots-ocr | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Open source | Open source |
| Price | 1 credit / page | 2 credits / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $1.00 | $2.00 |
| Typical speed | 1.2 s / page | 1.5 s / page |
| Best for | Handwritten text lines | Multilingual document parsing |
| Inputs | images | PDF, images |
| Languages | English | 100+ languages |
| Max pages per request | 100 | 500 |
| Tables | No | ✓ Yes |
| Handwriting | ✓ Yes | No |
| Math | No | ✓ Yes |
| Bounding boxes | No | ✓ Yes |
| Confidence | No | No |
| 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 detailsdots.ocr
Single vision model from rednote that does layout detection and content recognition together.
dots.ocr detailsUse one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "microsoft/trocr",
"fallbacks": ["rednote/dots-ocr"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}