Amazon Textract vs SmolDocling
SmolDocling is cheaper per page; SmolDocling is faster; only Amazon Textract supports forms, handwriting, confidence; only SmolDocling supports math.
Amazon Textractaws/textract | SmolDoclinghuggingface/smoldocling | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | OCR API | Open source |
| Price | 6 credits / page | 1 credit / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $6.00 | $1.00 |
| Typical speed | 1.2 s / page | 1.0 s / page |
| Best for | Forms and key-value extraction | Very cheap page conversion |
| Inputs | PDF, images | PDF, images |
| Languages | 6 languages | Mainly English |
| Max pages per request | 3,000 | 500 |
| Tables | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Handwriting | ✓ Yes | No |
| Math | No | ✓ Yes |
| Bounding boxes | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Confidence | ✓ Yes | No |
| Forms | ✓ Yes | No |
| Multilingual | No | No |
| 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
Amazon Textract
AWS OCR with form key-value pairs, tables and per-word confidence scores.
Amazon Textract detailsSmolDocling
Tiny 256M vision model from Hugging Face and IBM that outputs DocTags. Predecessor of Granite Docling.
SmolDocling detailsUse one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "aws/textract",
"fallbacks": ["huggingface/smoldocling"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}