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Gemini Flash vs Tesseract

Tesseract is cheaper per page; Tesseract is faster; only Gemini Flash supports tables, handwriting, math.

Gemini Flashgoogle/gemini-flashTesseracttesseract/tesseract
TypeVision modelOpen source
Price3 credits / pageFree
Per 1,000 pages$3.00$0.00
Typical speed1.6 s / page0.6 s / page
Best forHandwriting and mixed layoutsClean printed text, free
InputsPDF, imagesPDF, images
Languages100+ languages100+ languages
Max pages per request1,000500
Tables✓ YesNo
Handwriting✓ YesNo
Math✓ YesNo
Bounding boxesNoNo
ConfidenceNoNo
FormsNoNo
Multilingual✓ Yes✓ Yes
On OCRRouterAvailableAvailable

Prices are what you pay on OCRRouter. Speed is the provider's typical figure, not a benchmark we ran.

What each one is

Gemini Flash

General vision model with strong handwriting and layout understanding at a low price.

Gemini Flash details

Tesseract

The classic open-source OCR engine. Plain text from clean printed scans.

Tesseract details

Try both on your own file

Run the file once with each model and compare the output.

Резултат

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Use one, fall back to the other

Request body
{
  "model": "google/gemini-flash",
  "fallbacks": ["tesseract/tesseract"],
  "file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}

Questions

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