docTR vs ABBYY FineReader
DocTR is cheaper per page; docTR is faster; only docTR supports confidence; only ABBYY FineReader supports tables, multilingual.
docTRmindee/doctr | ABBYY FineReaderabbyy/finereader | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Open source | OCR API |
| Price | 1 credit / page | 14 credits / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $1.00 | $14.00 |
| Typical speed | 0.9 s / page | 2.0 s / page |
| Best for | Word-level OCR with positions | Office scans to Word and PDF |
| Inputs | PDF, images | PDF, images |
| Languages | Mainly Latin scripts | 190+ languages |
| Max pages per request | 500 | 1,000 |
| Tables | No | ✓ Yes |
| Handwriting | No | No |
| Math | No | No |
| Bounding boxes | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Confidence | ✓ Yes | 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
docTR
Open-source OCR library from Mindee with separate text detection and recognition models.
docTR detailsABBYY FineReader
Long-standing desktop OCR software. ABBYY also sells OCR SDKs and a cloud API. Price is an estimate.
ABBYY FineReader detailsUse one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "mindee/doctr",
"fallbacks": ["abbyy/finereader"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}