olmOCR vs Adobe Acrobat OCR
OlmOCR is cheaper per page; olmOCR is faster; only olmOCR supports tables, math, handwriting; only Adobe Acrobat OCR supports multilingual.
olmOCRallenai/olmocr | Adobe Acrobat OCRadobe/acrobat-ocr | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Open source | OCR API |
| Price | 2 credits / page | 14 credits / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $2.00 | $14.00 |
| Typical speed | 1.5 s / page | 2.0 s / page |
| Best for | Bulk PDF to text for datasets | Searchable PDFs in Acrobat |
| Inputs | PDF, images | PDF, images |
| Languages | Mainly English | Major European and Asian languages |
| Max pages per request | 1,000 | 1,000 |
| Tables | ✓ Yes | No |
| Handwriting | ✓ Yes | No |
| Math | ✓ Yes | No |
| Bounding boxes | No | No |
| Confidence | No | No |
| Forms | No | 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
olmOCR
Open-source vision model from Ai2 that turns PDFs into clean, reading-order text.
olmOCR 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": "allenai/olmocr",
"fallbacks": ["adobe/acrobat-ocr"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}