PaddleOCR-VL vs Google Cloud Vision OCR
Google Cloud Vision OCR is faster; only PaddleOCR-VL supports tables, math; only Google Cloud Vision OCR supports handwriting.
PaddleOCR-VLpaddle/paddleocr-vl | Google Cloud Vision OCRgoogle/cloud-vision | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Open source | OCR API |
| Price | 2 credits / page | 2 credits / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $2.00 | $2.00 |
| Typical speed | 1.3 s / page | 1.0 s / page |
| Best for | CJK documents | Photos and simple scans |
| Inputs | PDF, images | PDF, images |
| Languages | 109 languages | 100+ languages |
| Max pages per request | 500 | 2,000 |
| Tables | ✓ Yes | No |
| Handwriting | No | ✓ Yes |
| Math | ✓ Yes | No |
| Bounding boxes | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Confidence | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Forms | No | No |
| Multilingual | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| On OCRRouter | Available | 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
PaddleOCR-VL
Open-source document model from Baidu. Excellent on Chinese, Japanese and Korean.
PaddleOCR-VL detailsGoogle Cloud Vision OCR
Google Cloud's image OCR with text and document text detection, word boxes and confidence.
Google Cloud Vision OCR detailsUse one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "paddle/paddleocr-vl",
"fallbacks": ["google/cloud-vision"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}Questions
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