ABBYY FineReader vs Adobe Acrobat OCR
Only ABBYY FineReader supports tables, bounding boxes.
ABBYY FineReaderabbyy/finereader | Adobe Acrobat OCRadobe/acrobat-ocr | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | OCR API | OCR API |
| Price | 14 credits / page | 14 credits / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $14.00 | $14.00 |
| Typical speed | 2.0 s / page | 2.0 s / page |
| Best for | Office scans to Word and PDF | Searchable PDFs in Acrobat |
| Inputs | PDF, images | PDF, images |
| Languages | 190+ languages | Major European and Asian languages |
| Max pages per request | 1,000 | 1,000 |
| Tables | ✓ Yes | No |
| Handwriting | No | No |
| Math | No | No |
| Bounding boxes | ✓ Yes | No |
| Confidence | No | No |
| Forms | No | No |
| Multilingual | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| 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
ABBYY FineReader
Long-standing desktop OCR software. ABBYY also sells OCR SDKs and a cloud API. Price is an estimate.
ABBYY FineReader detailsAdobe Acrobat OCR
OCR built into Acrobat desktop. Adobe PDF Services API also offers OCR. Price is an estimate.
Adobe Acrobat OCR detailsUse one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "abbyy/finereader",
"fallbacks": ["adobe/acrobat-ocr"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}