Which is cheaper, MinerU or Adobe Acrobat OCR?

MinerU. MinerU is 2 credits / page and Adobe Acrobat OCR is 14 credits / page.

Which is more accurate?

It depends on the document. MinerU is strongest at academic pdfs, and Adobe Acrobat OCR at searchable pdfs in acrobat. Run a few of your own files through both and compare the output.

Yes. Put one as model and the other in fallbacks. If the first fails, the second reads the page, and you pay only for the one that answered.

MinerU vs Adobe Acrobat OCR

MinerU is cheaper per page; only MinerU supports tables, math, bounding boxes.

Get API key All models

	MinerU`opendatalab/mineru`	Adobe Acrobat OCR`adobe/acrobat-ocr`
Type	Open source	OCR API
Price	2 credits / page	14 credits / page
Per 1,000 pages	$2.00	$14.00
Typical speed	2.0 s / page	2.0 s / page
Best for	Academic PDFs	Searchable PDFs in Acrobat
Inputs	PDF, images	PDF, images
Languages	80+ languages	Major European and Asian languages
Max pages per request	500	1,000
Tables	✓ Yes	No
Handwriting	No	No
Math	✓ Yes	No
Bounding boxes	✓ Yes	No
Confidence	No	No
Forms	No	No
Multilingual	✓ Yes	✓ 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

MinerU

Open-source PDF to Markdown pipeline popular for academic and Chinese documents.

MinerU 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": "opendatalab/mineru",
  "fallbacks": ["adobe/acrobat-ocr"],
  "file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}

Questions

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