Chunkr vs Adobe Acrobat OCR
Adobe Acrobat OCR is faster; only Chunkr supports tables, math, bounding boxes.
Chunkrchunkr/chunkr | Adobe Acrobat OCRadobe/acrobat-ocr | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | OCR API | OCR API |
| Price | 14 credits / page | 14 credits / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $14.00 | $14.00 |
| Typical speed | 3.0 s / page | 2.0 s / page |
| Best for | Layout-aware chunks for RAG | Searchable PDFs in Acrobat |
| Inputs | PDF, images, DOCX | PDF, images |
| Languages | Multilingual | Major European and Asian languages |
| Max pages per request | 1,000 | 1,000 |
| Tables | ✓ Yes | No |
| Handwriting | No | No |
| Math | ✓ Yes | No |
| Bounding boxes | ✓ Yes | No |
| Confidence | No | No |
| Forms | No | No |
| Multilingual | ✓ Yes | ✓ 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
Chunkr
Document parsing API that segments and chunks pages for RAG. Self-hostable version available.
Chunkr 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": "chunkr/chunkr",
"fallbacks": ["adobe/acrobat-ocr"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}