DocsRouter – The OpenRouter for OCR and Vision Models

In plain words

DocsRouter provides a unified API for processing PDFs and images across multiple OCR and vision model providers. It abstracts away the complexity of choosing between different services by routing documents based on cost, quality, and latency while normalizing outputs into consistent formats like text, tables, and fields. Built for teams handling invoices, contracts, medical forms, and other document-heavy workflows, it offers a stable REST API and SDKs to reduce vendor lock-in and simplify integration.

written from the facts on this page · September 2026

From the sources

An early-access API for extracting structured information from documents with vision models.

Send an image or document once. Compare OCR-capable models, route by quality, speed, or cost, and receive one predictable response shape. curl https://api.docsrouter.com/v1/ocr \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $DOCSROUTER_API_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "url": "https://example.com/invoice.pdf", "strategy": "balanced", "options": { "output_format": "json" } }' Objective routing Pick the result you care about, or pass an exact OpenRouter model ID. Keep one endpoint while you evaluate OCR accuracy, latency, and cost across the changing vision-model landscape. Select a named model or use a transparent quality, speed, cost, or balanced strategy. Receive extracted text, page…from docsrouter.com

In the maker’s words, at launch

Most products that touch PDFs or images quietly rebuild the same thing: a hacked-together “router” that picks which OCR/vision API to call, normalizes the responses, and prays the bill is sane at the end of the month. DocsRouter is that layer as a product: one stable API that talks to multiple OCR engines and…

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