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Nougat vs ABBYY FineReader

Nougat is cheaper per page; ABBYY FineReader is faster; only Nougat supports math; only ABBYY FineReader supports bounding boxes, multilingual.

Nougatmeta/nougatABBYY FineReaderabbyy/finereader
TypeOpen sourceOCR API
Price2 credits / page14 credits / page
Per 1,000 pages$2.00$14.00
Typical speed3.0 s / page2.0 s / page
Best forarXiv-style papersOffice scans to Word and PDF
InputsPDF, imagesPDF, images
LanguagesMainly English190+ languages
Max pages per request2001,000
Tables✓ Yes✓ Yes
HandwritingNoNo
Math✓ YesNo
Bounding boxesNo✓ Yes
ConfidenceNoNo
FormsNoNo
MultilingualNo✓ 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

Nougat

Meta's model that converts academic PDFs to Markdown with LaTeX math.

Nougat details

ABBYY FineReader

Long-standing desktop OCR software. ABBYY also sells OCR SDKs and a cloud API. Price is an estimate.

ABBYY FineReader details

Use one, fall back to the other

Request body
{
  "model": "meta/nougat",
  "fallbacks": ["abbyy/finereader"],
  "file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}

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