Granite Docling vs Adobe Acrobat OCR
Granite Docling is cheaper per page; Granite Docling is faster; only Granite Docling supports tables, math, bounding boxes; only Adobe Acrobat OCR supports multilingual.
Granite Doclingibm/granite-docling | Adobe Acrobat OCRadobe/acrobat-ocr | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Open source | OCR API |
| Price | 1 credit / page | 14 credits / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $1.00 | $14.00 |
| Typical speed | 1.5 s / page | 2.0 s / page |
| Best for | Small-model document conversion | Searchable PDFs in Acrobat |
| Inputs | PDF, images | PDF, images |
| Languages | English, experimental CJK and Arabic | Major European and Asian languages |
| Max pages per request | 500 | 1,000 |
| Tables | ✓ Yes | No |
| Handwriting | No | No |
| Math | ✓ Yes | No |
| Bounding boxes | ✓ Yes | No |
| Confidence | No | No |
| Forms | No | No |
| Multilingual | No | ✓ 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
Granite Docling
Compact IBM vision model that converts pages to DocTags for the Docling pipeline.
Granite Docling 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": "ibm/granite-docling",
"fallbacks": ["adobe/acrobat-ocr"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}