Amazon Textract vs Tesseract
Tesseract is cheaper per page; Tesseract is faster; only Amazon Textract supports tables, forms, handwriting, bounding boxes, confidence; only Tesseract supports multilingual.
Amazon Textractaws/textract | Tesseracttesseract/tesseract | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | OCR API | Open source |
| Price | 6 credits / page | Free |
| Per 1,000 pages | $6.00 | $0.00 |
| Typical speed | 1.2 s / page | 0.6 s / page |
| Best for | Forms and key-value extraction | Clean printed text, free |
| Inputs | PDF, images | PDF, images |
| Languages | 6 languages | 100+ languages |
| Max pages per request | 3,000 | 500 |
| Tables | ✓ Yes | No |
| Handwriting | ✓ Yes | No |
| Math | No | No |
| Bounding boxes | ✓ Yes | No |
| Confidence | ✓ Yes | No |
| Forms | ✓ Yes | No |
| Multilingual | No | ✓ 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
Amazon Textract
AWS OCR with form key-value pairs, tables and per-word confidence scores.
Amazon Textract detailsTry both on your own file
Run the file once with each model and compare the output.
ප්රතිඵලය
ඔබගේ Markdown හෝ JSON මෙහි දිස්වේ.
Use one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "aws/textract",
"fallbacks": ["tesseract/tesseract"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}