docTR vs dots.ocr
DocTR is cheaper per page; docTR is faster; only docTR supports confidence; only dots.ocr supports tables, math, multilingual.
docTRmindee/doctr | dots.ocrrednote/dots-ocr | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Open source | Open source |
| Price | 1 credits / page | 2 credits / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $1.00 | $2.00 |
| Typical speed | 0.9 s / page | 1.5 s / page |
| Best for | Word-level OCR with positions | Multilingual document parsing |
| Inputs | PDF, images | PDF, images |
| Languages | Mainly Latin scripts | 100+ languages |
| Max pages per request | 500 | 500 |
| Tables | No | ✓ Yes |
| Handwriting | No | No |
| Math | No | ✓ Yes |
| Bounding boxes | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Confidence | ✓ Yes | No |
| Forms | No | No |
| Multilingual | No | ✓ Yes |
| On OCRRouter | Coming soon | Coming soon |
Prices are what you pay on OCRRouter. Speed is the provider's typical figure, not a benchmark we ran.
What each one is
docTR
Open-source OCR library from Mindee with separate text detection and recognition models.
docTR detailsdots.ocr
Single vision model from rednote that does layout detection and content recognition together.
dots.ocr detailsUse one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "mindee/doctr",
"fallbacks": ["rednote/dots-ocr"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}