Which is cheaper, OCR.space or ABBYY FineReader?

OCR.space. OCR.space is 1 credits / page and ABBYY FineReader is 14 credits / page.

Which is more accurate?

It depends on the document. OCR.space is strongest at cheap simple ocr, and ABBYY FineReader at office scans to word and pdf. Run a few of your own files through both and compare the output.

Yes. Put one as model and the other in fallbacks. If the first fails, the second reads the page, and you pay only for the one that answered.

OCR.space vs ABBYY FineReader

OCR.space is cheaper per page; OCR.space is faster.

Get API key All models

	OCR.space`ocrspace/ocr-space`	ABBYY FineReader`abbyy/finereader`
Type	OCR API	OCR API
Price	1 credits / page	14 credits / page
Per 1,000 pages	$1.00	$14.00
Typical speed	1.5 s / page	2.0 s / page
Best for	Cheap simple OCR	Office scans to Word and PDF
Inputs	PDF, images	PDF, images
Languages	20+ languages	190+ languages
Max pages per request	100	1,000
Tables	✓ Yes	✓ Yes
Handwriting	No	No
Math	No	No
Bounding boxes	✓ Yes	✓ Yes
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

OCR.space

Low-cost OCR API with a large free tier. Returns text, word boxes and searchable PDFs.

OCR.space details

ABBYY FineReader

Long-standing desktop OCR software. ABBYY also sells OCR SDKs and a cloud API. Price is an estimate.

ABBYY FineReader details

Use one, fall back to the other

Request body

{
  "model": "ocrspace/ocr-space",
  "fallbacks": ["abbyy/finereader"],
  "file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}

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