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docTR vs Adobe Acrobat OCR

DocTR is cheaper per page; docTR is faster; only docTR supports bounding boxes, confidence; only Adobe Acrobat OCR supports multilingual.

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docTRmindee/doctrAdobe Acrobat OCRadobe/acrobat-ocr
TypeOpen sourceOCR API
Price1 credit / page14 credits / page
Per 1,000 pages$1.00$14.00
Typical speed0.9 s / page2.0 s / page
Best forWord-level OCR with positionsSearchable PDFs in Acrobat
InputsPDF, imagesPDF, images
LanguagesMainly Latin scriptsMajor European and Asian languages
Max pages per request5001,000
TablesNoNo
HandwritingNoNo
MathNoNo
Bounding boxes✓ YesNo
Confidence✓ YesNo
FormsNoNo
MultilingualNo✓ Yes
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Prices are what you pay on OCRRouter. Speed is the provider's typical figure, not a benchmark we ran.

What each one is

docTR

Open-source OCR library from Mindee with separate text detection and recognition models.

docTR 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": "mindee/doctr",
  "fallbacks": ["adobe/acrobat-ocr"],
  "file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}

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