Marker vs Amazon Textract
Amazon Textract is cheaper per page; Amazon Textract is faster; only Marker supports math, multilingual; only Amazon Textract supports forms, handwriting, confidence.
Markerdatalab/marker | Amazon Textractaws/textract | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | OCR API | OCR API |
| Price | 14 credits / page | 6 credits / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $14.00 | $6.00 |
| Typical speed | 2.5 s / page | 1.2 s / page |
| Best for | Books and research papers | Forms and key-value extraction |
| Inputs | PDF, images, DOCX | PDF, images |
| Languages | 90+ languages | 6 languages |
| Max pages per request | 1,000 | 3,000 |
| Tables | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Handwriting | No | ✓ Yes |
| Math | ✓ Yes | No |
| Bounding boxes | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Confidence | No | ✓ Yes |
| Forms | No | ✓ Yes |
| Multilingual | ✓ Yes | No |
| On OCRRouter | Coming soon | Available |
Prices are what you pay on OCRRouter. Speed is the provider's typical figure, not a benchmark we ran.
What each one is
Marker
Hosted version of the open-source Marker and Surya models. Strong on books and papers.
Marker detailsAmazon Textract
AWS OCR with form key-value pairs, tables and per-word confidence scores.
Amazon Textract detailsUse one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "datalab/marker",
"fallbacks": ["aws/textract"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}