Unstructured vs Adobe Acrobat OCR
Adobe Acrobat OCR is cheaper per page; Adobe Acrobat OCR is faster; only Unstructured supports tables, bounding boxes.
Unstructuredunstructured/unstructured | Adobe Acrobat OCRadobe/acrobat-ocr | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | OCR API | OCR API |
| Price | 20 credits / page | 14 credits / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $20.00 | $14.00 |
| Typical speed | 3.0 s / page | 2.0 s / page |
| Best for | Mixed file types into RAG | Searchable PDFs in Acrobat |
| Inputs | PDF, images, DOCX | PDF, images |
| Languages | Multilingual | 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
Unstructured
Document ETL for RAG. Partitions many file types into typed elements; open-source library too.
Unstructured 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": "unstructured/unstructured",
"fallbacks": ["adobe/acrobat-ocr"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}