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Google Document AI vs Adobe Acrobat OCR

Google Document AI is cheaper per page; Google Document AI is faster; only Google Document AI supports tables, forms, handwriting, bounding boxes, confidence.

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Google Document AIgoogle/document-aiAdobe Acrobat OCRadobe/acrobat-ocr
TypeOCR APIOCR API
Price3 credits / page14 credits / page
Per 1,000 pages$3.00$14.00
Typical speed1.4 s / page2.0 s / page
Best forMultilingual scansSearchable PDFs in Acrobat
InputsPDF, imagesPDF, images
Languages200+ languagesMajor European and Asian languages
Max pages per request5001,000
Tables✓ YesNo
Handwriting✓ YesNo
MathNoNo
Bounding boxes✓ YesNo
Confidence✓ YesNo
Forms✓ YesNo
Multilingual✓ Yes✓ Yes
On OCRRouterAvailableComing soon

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

What each one is

Google Document AI

Google Cloud OCR with layout parsing and specialised processors.

Google Document AI details

Adobe Acrobat OCR

OCR built into Acrobat desktop. Adobe PDF Services API also offers OCR. Price is an estimate.

Adobe Acrobat OCR details

Use one, fall back to the other

Request body
{
  "model": "google/document-ai",
  "fallbacks": ["adobe/acrobat-ocr"],
  "file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}

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