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Nougat vs OCR.space

OCR.space is cheaper per page; OCR.space is faster; only Nougat supports math; only OCR.space supports bounding boxes, multilingual.

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Nougatmeta/nougatOCR.spaceocrspace/ocr-space
TypeOpen sourceOCR API
Price2 credits / page1 credit / page
Per 1,000 pages$2.00$1.00
Typical speed3.0 s / page1.5 s / page
Best forarXiv-style papersCheap simple OCR
InputsPDF, imagesPDF, images
LanguagesMainly English20+ languages
Max pages per request200100
Tables✓ Yes✓ Yes
HandwritingNoNo
Math✓ YesNo
Bounding boxesNo✓ Yes
ConfidenceNoNo
FormsNoNo
MultilingualNo✓ Yes
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Prices are what you pay on OCRRouter. Speed is the provider's typical figure, not a benchmark we ran.

What each one is

Nougat

Meta's model that converts academic PDFs to Markdown with LaTeX math.

Nougat details

OCR.space

Low-cost OCR API with a large free tier. Returns text, word boxes and searchable PDFs.

OCR.space details

Use one, fall back to the other

Request body
{
  "model": "meta/nougat",
  "fallbacks": ["ocrspace/ocr-space"],
  "file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}

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