RapidOCR vs TrOCR
RapidOCR is faster; only RapidOCR supports bounding boxes, confidence, multilingual; only TrOCR supports handwriting.
RapidOCRrapidai/rapidocr | TrOCRmicrosoft/trocr | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Open source | Open source |
| Price | 1 credit / page | 1 credit / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $1.00 | $1.00 |
| Typical speed | 0.6 s / page | 1.2 s / page |
| Best for | Lightweight OCR on CPU or edge | Handwritten text lines |
| Inputs | images | images |
| Languages | Chinese, English and more | English |
| Max pages per request | 100 | 100 |
| Tables | No | No |
| Handwriting | No | ✓ Yes |
| Math | No | No |
| Bounding boxes | ✓ Yes | No |
| Confidence | ✓ Yes | No |
| Forms | No | No |
| Multilingual | ✓ Yes | No |
| 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
RapidOCR
PaddleOCR models packaged for ONNX Runtime and other engines. Easy to deploy without Paddle.
RapidOCR detailsTrOCR
Transformer text recognition model. Reads single text lines, including handwriting.
TrOCR detailsUse one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "rapidai/rapidocr",
"fallbacks": ["microsoft/trocr"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}