Jina OCR vs Tesseract
Tesseract is cheaper per page; Tesseract is faster; only Jina OCR supports tables, math.
Jina OCRjina/jina-ocr | Tesseracttesseract/tesseract | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Open source | Open source |
| Price | 1 credits / page | Free |
| Per 1,000 pages | $1.00 | $0.00 |
| Typical speed | 1.5 s / page | 0.6 s / page |
| Best for | Clean Markdown at low cost | Clean printed text, free |
| Inputs | PDF, images | PDF, images |
| Languages | About 100 languages | 100+ languages |
| Max pages per request | 200 | 500 |
| Tables | ✓ Yes | No |
| Handwriting | No | No |
| Math | ✓ Yes | No |
| Bounding boxes | No | No |
| Confidence | No | No |
| Forms | No | 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
Jina OCR
Compact page-to-Markdown model from Jina AI, built on the DeepSeek-OCR encoder.
Jina OCR detailsTry both on your own file
Run the file once with each model and compare the output.
Resultado
Seu Markdown ou JSON aparecerá aqui.
Use one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "jina/jina-ocr",
"fallbacks": ["tesseract/tesseract"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}