Donut vs Adobe Acrobat OCR
Donut is cheaper per page; Donut is faster; only Donut supports forms; only Adobe Acrobat OCR supports multilingual.
Donutnaver/donut | Adobe Acrobat OCRadobe/acrobat-ocr | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Open source | OCR API |
| Price | 1 credit / page | 14 credits / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $1.00 | $14.00 |
| Typical speed | 1.0 s / page | 2.0 s / page |
| Best for | Receipt and form fields after fine-tuning | Searchable PDFs in Acrobat |
| Inputs | images | PDF, images |
| Languages | English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean | Major European and Asian languages |
| Max pages per request | 100 | 1,000 |
| Tables | No | No |
| Handwriting | No | No |
| Math | No | No |
| Bounding boxes | No | No |
| Confidence | No | No |
| Forms | ✓ Yes | 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
Donut
OCR-free document understanding model. Fine-tuned for receipts, forms and document Q&A.
Donut 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": "naver/donut",
"fallbacks": ["adobe/acrobat-ocr"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}