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Unlimited OCR vs Nougat

Unlimited OCR is faster; only Unlimited OCR supports bounding boxes, multilingual.

Unlimited OCRbaidu/unlimited-ocrNougatmeta/nougat
TypeOpen sourceOpen source
Price2 credits / page2 credits / page
Per 1,000 pages$2.00$2.00
Typical speed1.2 s / page3.0 s / page
Best forBooks and very long documentsarXiv-style papers
InputsPDF, imagesPDF, images
Languages30+ languagesMainly English
Max pages per request1,000200
Tables✓ Yes✓ Yes
HandwritingNoNo
Math✓ Yes✓ Yes
Bounding boxes✓ YesNo
ConfidenceNoNo
FormsNoNo
Multilingual✓ YesNo
On OCRRouterComing soonComing soon

Prices are what you pay on OCRRouter. Speed is the provider's typical figure, not a benchmark we ran.

What each one is

Unlimited OCR

Open-source model from Baidu that reads hundreds of pages in one pass with flat memory use.

Unlimited OCR 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": "baidu/unlimited-ocr",
  "fallbacks": ["meta/nougat"],
  "file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}

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