Kraken vs dots.ocr
Kraken is cheaper per page; only Kraken supports handwriting; only dots.ocr supports tables, math.
Krakenkraken/kraken | dots.ocrrednote/dots-ocr | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Open source | Open source |
| Price | 1 credit / page | 2 credits / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $1.00 | $2.00 |
| Typical speed | 1.5 s / page | 1.5 s / page |
| Best for | Historical documents and manuscripts | Multilingual document parsing |
| Inputs | images | PDF, images |
| Languages | Many scripts, incl. right-to-left | 100+ languages |
| Max pages per request | 500 | 500 |
| Tables | No | ✓ Yes |
| Handwriting | ✓ Yes | No |
| Math | No | ✓ Yes |
| Bounding boxes | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Confidence | No | No |
| Forms | No | No |
| Multilingual | ✓ Yes | ✓ 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
Kraken
OCR engine for historical documents and manuscripts, with trainable models for unusual scripts.
Kraken 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": "kraken/kraken",
"fallbacks": ["rednote/dots-ocr"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}