OCRmyPDF vs SmolDocling
Only OCRmyPDF supports multilingual; only SmolDocling supports tables, math, bounding boxes.
OCRmyPDFocrmypdf/ocrmypdf | SmolDoclinghuggingface/smoldocling | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Open source | Open source |
| Price | 1 credit / page | 1 credit / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $1.00 | $1.00 |
| Typical speed | 1.0 s / page | 1.0 s / page |
| Best for | Searchable PDFs from scans | Very cheap page conversion |
| Inputs | PDF, images | PDF, images |
| Languages | 100+ languages (via Tesseract) | Mainly English |
| 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 | No |
| 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 detailsSmolDocling
Tiny 256M vision model from Hugging Face and IBM that outputs DocTags. Predecessor of Granite Docling.
SmolDocling detailsUse one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "ocrmypdf/ocrmypdf",
"fallbacks": ["huggingface/smoldocling"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}