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Qianfan OCR vs OCR.space

OCR.space is faster; only Qianfan OCR supports math, handwriting; only OCR.space supports bounding boxes.

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Qianfan OCRbaidu/qianfan-ocrOCR.spaceocrspace/ocr-space
TypeOCR APIOCR API
Price1 credit / page1 credit / page
Per 1,000 pages$1.00$1.00
Typical speed2.0 s / page1.5 s / page
Best forChinese documentsCheap simple OCR
InputsPDF, imagesPDF, images
LanguagesChinese, English and more20+ languages
Max pages per request200100
Tables✓ Yes✓ Yes
Handwriting✓ YesNo
Math✓ YesNo
Bounding boxesNo✓ Yes
ConfidenceNoNo
FormsNoNo
Multilingual✓ Yes✓ Yes
On OCRRouterAvailableComing 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 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": "baidu/qianfan-ocr",
  "fallbacks": ["ocrspace/ocr-space"],
  "file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}

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