Azure Document Intelligence vs Adobe Acrobat OCR
Adobe Acrobat OCR is cheaper per page; Azure Document Intelligence is faster; only Azure Document Intelligence supports tables, forms, handwriting, bounding boxes, confidence.
Azure Document Intelligenceazure/document-intelligence | Adobe Acrobat OCRadobe/acrobat-ocr | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | OCR API | OCR API |
| Price | 15 credits / page | 14 credits / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $15.00 | $14.00 |
| Typical speed | 1.5 s / page | 2.0 s / page |
| Best for | Enterprise forms and IDs | Searchable PDFs in Acrobat |
| Inputs | PDF, images | PDF, images |
| Languages | 300+ languages | Major European and Asian languages |
| Max pages per request | 2,000 | 1,000 |
| Tables | ✓ Yes | No |
| Handwriting | ✓ Yes | No |
| Math | No | No |
| Bounding boxes | ✓ Yes | No |
| Confidence | ✓ Yes | No |
| Forms | ✓ Yes | No |
| Multilingual | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| On OCRRouter | Available | 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
Azure Document Intelligence
Azure layout model with tables, selection marks and prebuilt invoice and ID readers.
Azure Document Intelligence 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": "azure/document-intelligence",
"fallbacks": ["adobe/acrobat-ocr"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}Questions
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