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Kraken vs Adobe Acrobat OCR

Kraken is cheaper per page; Kraken is faster; only Kraken supports handwriting, bounding boxes.

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Krakenkraken/krakenAdobe Acrobat OCRadobe/acrobat-ocr
TypeOpen sourceOCR API
Price1 credit / page14 credits / page
Per 1,000 pages$1.00$14.00
Typical speed1.5 s / page2.0 s / page
Best forHistorical documents and manuscriptsSearchable PDFs in Acrobat
InputsimagesPDF, images
LanguagesMany scripts, incl. right-to-leftMajor European and Asian languages
Max pages per request5001,000
TablesNoNo
Handwriting✓ YesNo
MathNoNo
Bounding boxes✓ YesNo
ConfidenceNoNo
FormsNoNo
Multilingual✓ Yes✓ 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

Kraken

OCR engine for historical documents and manuscripts, with trainable models for unusual scripts.

Kraken 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": "kraken/kraken",
  "fallbacks": ["adobe/acrobat-ocr"],
  "file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}

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