Qianfan OCR vs dots.ocr
Qianfan OCR is cheaper per page; dots.ocr is faster; only Qianfan OCR supports handwriting; only dots.ocr supports bounding boxes.
Qianfan OCRbaidu/qianfan-ocr | dots.ocrrednote/dots-ocr | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | OCR API | Open source |
| Price | 1 credit / page | 2 credits / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $1.00 | $2.00 |
| Typical speed | 2.0 s / page | 1.5 s / page |
| Best for | Chinese documents | Multilingual document parsing |
| Inputs | PDF, images | PDF, images |
| Languages | Chinese, English and more | 100+ languages |
| Max pages per request | 200 | 500 |
| Tables | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Handwriting | ✓ Yes | No |
| Math | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Bounding boxes | No | ✓ Yes |
| Confidence | No | No |
| Forms | No | No |
| Multilingual | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| On OCRRouter | Available | 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
Qianfan OCR
Baidu's OCR-tuned vision model. Strong on Chinese documents and tables.
Qianfan OCR 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": "baidu/qianfan-ocr",
"fallbacks": ["rednote/dots-ocr"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}