DocsRouter

DocsRouter is a powerful, unified API gateway designed to simplify and optimize document processing for developers and engineering teams. If you’re tired of managing dozens of API keys, juggling disparate response formats, and constantly benchmarking OCR providers, DocsRouter is your solution. It consolidates access to over 100 Vision LLM and traditional OCR services into a single, standardized API endpoint, enabling superior data extraction with minimal integration effort.

We handle the complexity of provider management, intelligent routing, and cost optimization so you can focus exclusively on building your product.

Key Features

DocsRouter is built for high-performance, scalable integration, delivering complex document understanding through simple calls.

• 🤖 Intelligent Routing & Optimization: Automatically selects the optimal OCR or Vision LLM provider for every document. Based on your defined strategy—whether prioritizing speed, maximizing quality (confidence scores), or minimizing cost—DocsRouter routes the request to the best-performing provider in real-time, ensuring optimal outcomes without manual intervention.
• 🔗 Unified API Interface: Access 100+ providers, including major Vision LLMs (like GPT-4o and Gemini 2.5 Pro) and traditional OCR engines, through one consistent request and response format. This eliminates the need for custom logic when switching providers and drastically simplifies backend integration.
• ⚡ OpenAI SDK Drop-in Compatibility: DocsRouter acts as a seamless replacement for existing integrations. By simply changing the base URL, you can leverage your current OpenAI or OpenRouter SDKs, instantly gaining access to enhanced document processing capabilities and a broader range of models without rewriting your codebase.
• 📊 Advanced Document Understanding: Move beyond simple text recognition. DocsRouter leverages the power of Vision LLMs to deliver superior document understanding, including high-confidence scores, structured table extraction, and detailed cost breakdowns in every response, turning messy documents into actionable structured data.

Use Cases

DocsRouter enables engineering teams to deploy robust document processing pipelines quickly and reliably across various industries:

1. Automated Invoice and Receipt Processing: Instead of relying on a single, costly provider, use DocsRouter's intelligent routing with a strategy: 'quality' setting. The system automatically selects the highest-ELO-rated Vision LLM (like Gemini 3 or GPT-5.1) to accurately extract complex line items, tax details, and totals from invoices, achieving high confidence and reducing manual verification time.
2. Scalable Data Onboarding and Verification: For platforms that ingest high volumes of diverse documents (IDs, contracts, PDFs), DocsRouter provides resilience. The unified API allows you to integrate quickly, while the platform handles provider failover (coming soon) and performance optimization, ensuring continuous uptime and reliable extraction rates across millions of documents.
3. Cost-Optimized Archival Text Extraction: When processing older, lower-priority documents where cost is the primary concern, simply set the strategy: 'cost'. DocsRouter routes the request to the most cost-effective OCR engine, such as the dedicated PDF text engine or Mistral OCR, ensuring you maintain budget efficiency without sacrificing the ability to search and index your archives.

Why Choose DocsRouter?

DocsRouter moves beyond basic OCR integration to deliver a comprehensive, developer-focused API experience that prioritizes flexibility and optimization.

• Unmatched Model Access: Through dynamic integration with OpenRouter, you gain access to the leading Vision LLMs—including models from Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Mistral—all optimized for document extraction and ranked by real-world benchmarks (ELO Score).
• Simplified Financial Management: Eliminate the administrative burden of managing separate contracts and API credits. DocsRouter offers Unified Billing, allowing you to manage a single credit balance for all your OCR and Vision LLM needs, regardless of which underlying provider processes the document.
• Built-in Optimization Logic: Unlike managing raw vendor APIs, DocsRouter provides the crucial intelligent layer. You don't need to write complex logic to decide whether a PDF should go to GPT-4o or Gemini; you simply specify the desired outcome (quality, speed, or cost), and the platform executes the optimal routing decision instantly.

Conclusion

DocsRouter offers the simplest path to integrating world-class document understanding into your application. By providing a single, unified API and intelligent routing logic, we empower you to leverage the best of both traditional OCR and cutting-edge Vision LLMs, guaranteeing high accuracy, flexible scaling, and consistent cost optimization.

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