Which is cheaper, Jina OCR or Adobe Acrobat OCR?

Jina OCR. Jina OCR is 1 credit / page and Adobe Acrobat OCR is 14 credits / page.

Which is more accurate?

It depends on the document. Jina OCR is strongest at clean markdown at low cost, and Adobe Acrobat OCR at searchable pdfs in acrobat. 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.

Jina OCR vs Adobe Acrobat OCR

Jina OCR is cheaper per page; Jina OCR is faster; only Jina OCR supports tables, math.

Get API key All models

	Jina OCR`jina/jina-ocr`	Adobe Acrobat OCR`adobe/acrobat-ocr`
Type	Open source	OCR API
Price	1 credit / page	14 credits / page
Per 1,000 pages	$1.00	$14.00
Typical speed	1.5 s / page	2.0 s / page
Best for	Clean Markdown at low cost	Searchable PDFs in Acrobat
Inputs	PDF, images	PDF, images
Languages	About 100 languages	Major European and Asian languages
Max pages per request	200	1,000
Tables	✓ Yes	No
Handwriting	No	No
Math	✓ Yes	No
Bounding boxes	No	No
Confidence	No	No
Forms	No	No
Multilingual	✓ Yes	✓ Yes
On OCRRouter	Available	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

Jina OCR

Compact page-to-Markdown model from Jina AI, built on the DeepSeek-OCR encoder.

Jina OCR 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": "jina/jina-ocr",
  "fallbacks": ["adobe/acrobat-ocr"],
  "file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}

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