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PaddleOCR-VL vs Hunyuan OCR

PaddleOCR-VL is faster; only PaddleOCR-VL supports confidence.

PaddleOCR-VLpaddle/paddleocr-vlHunyuan OCRtencent/hunyuan-ocr
TypeOpen sourceOpen source
Price2 credits / page2 credits / page
Per 1,000 pages$2.00$2.00
Typical speed1.3 s / page1.5 s / page
Best forCJK documentsChinese documents and photos
InputsPDF, imagesPDF, images
Languages109 languages100+ languages
Max pages per request500500
Tables✓ Yes✓ Yes
HandwritingNoNo
Math✓ Yes✓ Yes
Bounding boxes✓ Yes✓ Yes
Confidence✓ YesNo
FormsNoNo
Multilingual✓ Yes✓ Yes
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What each one is

PaddleOCR-VL

Open-source document model from Baidu. Excellent on Chinese, Japanese and Korean.

PaddleOCR-VL details

Hunyuan OCR

Small end-to-end OCR model from Tencent covering parsing, extraction and photo translation.

Hunyuan OCR details

Use one, fall back to the other

Request body
{
  "model": "paddle/paddleocr-vl",
  "fallbacks": ["tencent/hunyuan-ocr"],
  "file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}

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