Jina OCR vs ABBYY FineReader
Jina OCR is cheaper per page; Jina OCR is faster; only Jina OCR supports math; only ABBYY FineReader supports bounding boxes.
Jina OCRjina/jina-ocr | 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 | 1.5 s / page | 2.0 s / page |
| Best for | Clean Markdown at low cost | Office scans to Word and PDF |
| Inputs | PDF, images | PDF, images |
| Languages | About 100 languages | 190+ languages |
| Max pages per request | 200 | 1,000 |
| Tables | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Handwriting | No | No |
| Math | ✓ Yes | No |
| Bounding boxes | No | ✓ Yes |
| Confidence | No | No |
| Forms | No | 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
Jina OCR
Compact page-to-Markdown model from Jina AI, built on the DeepSeek-OCR encoder.
Jina OCR 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": "jina/jina-ocr",
"fallbacks": ["abbyy/finereader"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}