OCRmyPDF vs dots.ocr
OCRmyPDF is cheaper per page; OCRmyPDF is faster; only dots.ocr supports tables, math, bounding boxes.
OCRmyPDFocrmypdf/ocrmypdf | dots.ocrrednote/dots-ocr | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Open source | Open source |
| Price | 1 credit / page | 2 credits / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $1.00 | $2.00 |
| Typical speed | 1.0 s / page | 1.5 s / page |
| Best for | Searchable PDFs from scans | Multilingual document parsing |
| Inputs | PDF, images | PDF, images |
| Languages | 100+ languages (via Tesseract) | 100+ languages |
| Max pages per request | 1,000 | 500 |
| Tables | No | ✓ Yes |
| Handwriting | No | No |
| Math | No | ✓ Yes |
| Bounding boxes | No | ✓ Yes |
| Confidence | No | No |
| Forms | No | No |
| Multilingual | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| On OCRRouter | Coming soon | 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
OCRmyPDF
Command-line tool that adds a searchable text layer to scanned PDFs, using Tesseract.
OCRmyPDF detailsdots.ocr
Single vision model from rednote that does layout detection and content recognition together.
dots.ocr detailsUse one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "ocrmypdf/ocrmypdf",
"fallbacks": ["rednote/dots-ocr"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}