Qianfan OCR vs Tesseract
Tesseract is cheaper per page; Tesseract is faster; only Qianfan OCR supports tables, math, handwriting.
Qianfan OCRbaidu/qianfan-ocr | Tesseracttesseract/tesseract | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | OCR API | Open source |
| Price | 1 credits / page | Free |
| Per 1,000 pages | $1.00 | $0.00 |
| Typical speed | 2.0 s / page | 0.6 s / page |
| Best for | Chinese documents | Clean printed text, free |
| Inputs | PDF, images | PDF, images |
| Languages | Chinese, English and more | 100+ languages |
| Max pages per request | 200 | 500 |
| Tables | ✓ Yes | No |
| Handwriting | ✓ Yes | 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
Qianfan OCR
Baidu's OCR-tuned vision model. Strong on Chinese documents and tables.
Qianfan OCR detailsTry both on your own file
Run the file once with each model and compare the output.
结果
识别出的 Markdown 或 JSON 会显示在这里。
Use one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "baidu/qianfan-ocr",
"fallbacks": ["tesseract/tesseract"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}