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olmOCR vs Nougat

OlmOCR is faster; only olmOCR supports handwriting.

olmOCRallenai/olmocrNougatmeta/nougat
TypeOpen sourceOpen source
Price2 credits / page2 credits / page
Per 1,000 pages$2.00$2.00
Typical speed1.5 s / page3.0 s / page
Best forBulk PDF to text for datasetsarXiv-style papers
InputsPDF, imagesPDF, images
LanguagesMainly EnglishMainly English
Max pages per request1,000200
Tables✓ Yes✓ Yes
Handwriting✓ YesNo
Math✓ Yes✓ Yes
Bounding boxesNoNo
ConfidenceNoNo
FormsNoNo
MultilingualNoNo
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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

olmOCR

Open-source vision model from Ai2 that turns PDFs into clean, reading-order text.

olmOCR details

Nougat

Meta's model that converts academic PDFs to Markdown with LaTeX math.

Nougat details

Use one, fall back to the other

Request body
{
  "model": "allenai/olmocr",
  "fallbacks": ["meta/nougat"],
  "file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}

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