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EasyOCR vs docTR

Only EasyOCR supports multilingual.

EasyOCRjaided/easyocrdocTRmindee/doctr
TypeOpen sourceOpen source
Price1 credits / page1 credits / page
Per 1,000 pages$1.00$1.00
Typical speed0.9 s / page0.9 s / page
Best forQuick scripts and scene textWord-level OCR with positions
InputsimagesPDF, images
Languages80+ languagesMainly Latin scripts
Max pages per request100500
TablesNoNo
HandwritingNoNo
MathNoNo
Bounding boxes✓ Yes✓ Yes
Confidence✓ Yes✓ Yes
FormsNoNo
Multilingual✓ YesNo
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Prices are what you pay on OCRRouter. Speed is the provider's typical figure, not a benchmark we ran.

What each one is

EasyOCR

Python OCR library with a simple API. Returns text lines with boxes and confidence.

EasyOCR details

docTR

Open-source OCR library from Mindee with separate text detection and recognition models.

docTR details

Use one, fall back to the other

Request body
{
  "model": "jaided/easyocr",
  "fallbacks": ["mindee/doctr"],
  "file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}

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