Unlimited OCR vs TrOCR
TrOCR is cheaper per page; only Unlimited OCR supports tables, math, bounding boxes, multilingual; only TrOCR supports handwriting.
Unlimited OCRbaidu/unlimited-ocr | TrOCRmicrosoft/trocr | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Open source | Open source |
| Price | 2 credits / page | 1 credit / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $2.00 | $1.00 |
| Typical speed | 1.2 s / page | 1.2 s / page |
| Best for | Books and very long documents | Handwritten text lines |
| Inputs | PDF, images | images |
| Languages | 30+ languages | English |
| Max pages per request | 1,000 | 100 |
| Tables | ✓ Yes | No |
| Handwriting | No | ✓ Yes |
| Math | ✓ Yes | No |
| Bounding boxes | ✓ Yes | No |
| Confidence | No | No |
| Forms | No | No |
| Multilingual | ✓ Yes | No |
| 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
Unlimited OCR
Open-source model from Baidu that reads hundreds of pages in one pass with flat memory use.
Unlimited OCR detailsTrOCR
Transformer text recognition model. Reads single text lines, including handwriting.
TrOCR detailsUse one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "baidu/unlimited-ocr",
"fallbacks": ["microsoft/trocr"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}