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Docling vs ABBYY FineReader

Docling is cheaper per page; ABBYY FineReader is faster; only Docling supports math; only ABBYY FineReader supports multilingual.

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Doclingibm/doclingABBYY FineReaderabbyy/finereader
TypeOpen sourceOCR API
Price2 credits / page14 credits / page
Per 1,000 pages$2.00$14.00
Typical speed2.2 s / page2.0 s / page
Best forStructured export for RAGOffice scans to Word and PDF
InputsPDF, images, DOCXPDF, images
LanguagesLatin scripts, CJK190+ languages
Max pages per request5001,000
Tables✓ Yes✓ Yes
HandwritingNoNo
Math✓ YesNo
Bounding boxes✓ Yes✓ Yes
ConfidenceNoNo
FormsNoNo
MultilingualNo✓ 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

Docling

IBM's open-source document converter with a structured document model.

Docling details

ABBYY FineReader

Long-standing desktop OCR software. ABBYY also sells OCR SDKs and a cloud API. Price is an estimate.

ABBYY FineReader details

Use one, fall back to the other

Request body
{
  "model": "ibm/docling",
  "fallbacks": ["abbyy/finereader"],
  "file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}

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