MonkeyOCR vs Adobe Acrobat OCR
MonkeyOCR is cheaper per page; MonkeyOCR is faster; only MonkeyOCR supports tables, math, bounding boxes; only Adobe Acrobat OCR supports multilingual.
MonkeyOCRmonkeyocr/monkeyocr | Adobe Acrobat OCRadobe/acrobat-ocr | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Open source | OCR API |
| Price | 2 credits / page | 14 credits / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $2.00 | $14.00 |
| Typical speed | 1.5 s / page | 2.0 s / page |
| Best for | Chinese and English PDFs | Searchable PDFs in Acrobat |
| Inputs | PDF, images | PDF, images |
| Languages | Chinese, English | 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
MonkeyOCR
Open-source document parser that splits work into structure, recognition and relation steps.
MonkeyOCR 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": "monkeyocr/monkeyocr",
"fallbacks": ["adobe/acrobat-ocr"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}