Google Document AI vs PaddleOCR-VL
PaddleOCR-VL is cheaper per page; PaddleOCR-VL is faster; only Google Document AI supports forms, handwriting; only PaddleOCR-VL supports math.
Google Document AIgoogle/document-ai | PaddleOCR-VLpaddle/paddleocr-vl | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | OCR API | Open source |
| Price | 3 credits / page | 2 credits / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $3.00 | $2.00 |
| Typical speed | 1.4 s / page | 1.3 s / page |
| Best for | Multilingual scans | CJK documents |
| Inputs | PDF, images | PDF, images |
| Languages | 200+ languages | 109 languages |
| Max pages per request | 500 | 500 |
| Tables | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Handwriting | ✓ Yes | No |
| Math | No | ✓ Yes |
| Bounding boxes | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Confidence | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Forms | ✓ Yes | No |
| Multilingual | ✓ Yes | ✓ 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
Google Document AI
Google Cloud OCR with layout parsing and specialised processors.
Google Document AI detailsPaddleOCR-VL
Open-source document model from Baidu. Excellent on Chinese, Japanese and Korean.
PaddleOCR-VL detailsTry both on your own file
Run the file once with each model and compare the output.
نتیجه
خروجی Markdown یا JSON شما اینجا نمایش داده میشود.
Use one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "google/document-ai",
"fallbacks": ["paddle/paddleocr-vl"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}