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DeepSeek-OCR vs TrOCR

DeepSeek-OCR is faster; only DeepSeek-OCR supports tables, math, bounding boxes, multilingual; only TrOCR supports handwriting.

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DeepSeek-OCRdeepseek/deepseek-ocrTrOCRmicrosoft/trocr
TypeOpen sourceOpen source
Price1 credit / page1 credit / page
Per 1,000 pages$1.00$1.00
Typical speed1.1 s / page1.2 s / page
Best forCheap bulk conversionHandwritten text lines
InputsPDF, imagesimages
Languages100+ languagesEnglish
Max pages per request200100
Tables✓ YesNo
HandwritingNo✓ Yes
Math✓ YesNo
Bounding boxes✓ YesNo
ConfidenceNoNo
FormsNoNo
Multilingual✓ YesNo
On OCRRouterAvailableComing soon

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

What each one is

DeepSeek-OCR

Open-source vision model that compresses pages into few tokens.

DeepSeek-OCR details

TrOCR

Transformer text recognition model. Reads single text lines, including handwriting.

TrOCR details

Use one, fall back to the other

Request body
{
  "model": "deepseek/deepseek-ocr",
  "fallbacks": ["microsoft/trocr"],
  "file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}

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