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PaddleOCR (PP-OCR) vs ABBYY FineReader

PaddleOCR (PP-OCR) is cheaper per page; PaddleOCR (PP-OCR) is faster; only PaddleOCR (PP-OCR) supports confidence; only ABBYY FineReader supports tables.

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PaddleOCR (PP-OCR)paddle/paddleocrABBYY FineReaderabbyy/finereader
TypeOpen sourceOCR API
Price1 credits / page14 credits / page
Per 1,000 pages$1.00$14.00
Typical speed0.7 s / page2.0 s / page
Best forFast printed text, Chinese and EnglishOffice scans to Word and PDF
InputsPDF, imagesPDF, images
Languages80+ languages190+ languages
Max pages per request5001,000
TablesNo✓ Yes
HandwritingNoNo
MathNoNo
Bounding boxes✓ Yes✓ Yes
Confidence✓ YesNo
FormsNoNo
Multilingual✓ Yes✓ Yes
On OCRRouterComing soonComing soon

Prices are what you pay on OCRRouter. Speed is the provider's typical figure, not a benchmark we ran.

What each one is

PaddleOCR (PP-OCR)

Baidu's classic open-source text detection and recognition pipeline. Light enough to run on CPU.

PaddleOCR (PP-OCR) 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": "paddle/paddleocr",
  "fallbacks": ["abbyy/finereader"],
  "file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}

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