Which is cheaper, OCRmyPDF or Adobe Acrobat OCR?

OCRmyPDF. OCRmyPDF is 1 credit / page and Adobe Acrobat OCR is 14 credits / page.

Which is more accurate?

It depends on the document. OCRmyPDF is strongest at searchable pdfs from scans, 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.

OCRmyPDF vs Adobe Acrobat OCR

OCRmyPDF is cheaper per page; OCRmyPDF is faster.

Get API key All models

	OCRmyPDF`ocrmypdf/ocrmypdf`	Adobe Acrobat OCR`adobe/acrobat-ocr`
Type	Open source	OCR API
Price	1 credit / page	14 credits / page
Per 1,000 pages	$1.00	$14.00
Typical speed	1.0 s / page	2.0 s / page
Best for	Searchable PDFs from scans	Searchable PDFs in Acrobat
Inputs	PDF, images	PDF, images
Languages	100+ languages (via Tesseract)	Major European and Asian languages
Max pages per request	1,000	1,000
Tables	No	No
Handwriting	No	No
Math	No	No
Bounding boxes	No	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

OCRmyPDF

Command-line tool that adds a searchable text layer to scanned PDFs, using Tesseract.

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

Questions

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