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MinerU vs Adobe Acrobat OCR

MinerU is cheaper per page; only MinerU supports tables, math, bounding boxes.

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MinerUopendatalab/mineruAdobe Acrobat OCRadobe/acrobat-ocr
TypeOpen sourceOCR API
Price2 credits / page14 credits / page
Per 1,000 pages$2.00$14.00
Typical speed2.0 s / page2.0 s / page
Best forAcademic PDFsSearchable PDFs in Acrobat
InputsPDF, imagesPDF, images
Languages80+ languagesMajor European and Asian languages
Max pages per request5001,000
Tables✓ YesNo
HandwritingNoNo
Math✓ YesNo
Bounding boxes✓ YesNo
ConfidenceNoNo
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

MinerU

Open-source PDF to Markdown pipeline popular for academic and Chinese documents.

MinerU 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": "opendatalab/mineru",
  "fallbacks": ["adobe/acrobat-ocr"],
  "file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}

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