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RapidOCR vs Adobe Acrobat OCR

RapidOCR is cheaper per page; RapidOCR is faster; only RapidOCR supports bounding boxes, confidence.

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RapidOCRrapidai/rapidocrAdobe Acrobat OCRadobe/acrobat-ocr
TypeOpen sourceOCR API
Price1 credits / page14 credits / page
Per 1,000 pages$1.00$14.00
Typical speed0.6 s / page2.0 s / page
Best forLightweight OCR on CPU or edgeSearchable PDFs in Acrobat
InputsimagesPDF, images
LanguagesChinese, English and moreMajor European and Asian languages
Max pages per request1001,000
TablesNoNo
HandwritingNoNo
MathNoNo
Bounding boxes✓ YesNo
Confidence✓ YesNo
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

RapidOCR

PaddleOCR models packaged for ONNX Runtime and other engines. Easy to deploy without Paddle.

RapidOCR 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": "rapidai/rapidocr",
  "fallbacks": ["adobe/acrobat-ocr"],
  "file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}

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