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Docling vs Nougat

Docling is faster; only Docling supports bounding boxes.

Doclingibm/doclingNougatmeta/nougat
TypeOpen sourceOpen source
Price2 credits / page2 credits / page
Per 1,000 pages$2.00$2.00
Typical speed2.2 s / page3.0 s / page
Best forStructured export for RAGarXiv-style papers
InputsPDF, images, DOCXPDF, images
LanguagesLatin scripts, CJKMainly English
Max pages per request500200
Tables✓ Yes✓ Yes
HandwritingNoNo
Math✓ Yes✓ Yes
Bounding boxes✓ YesNo
ConfidenceNoNo
FormsNoNo
MultilingualNoNo
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

Docling

IBM's open-source document converter with a structured document model.

Docling 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": "ibm/docling",
  "fallbacks": ["meta/nougat"],
  "file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}

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