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Qianfan OCR vs ABBYY FineReader

Qianfan OCR is cheaper per page; only Qianfan OCR supports math, handwriting; only ABBYY FineReader supports bounding boxes.

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Qianfan OCRbaidu/qianfan-ocrABBYY FineReaderabbyy/finereader
TypeOCR APIOCR API
Price1 credit / page14 credits / page
Per 1,000 pages$1.00$14.00
Typical speed2.0 s / page2.0 s / page
Best forChinese documentsOffice scans to Word and PDF
InputsPDF, imagesPDF, images
LanguagesChinese, English and more190+ languages
Max pages per request2001,000
Tables✓ Yes✓ Yes
Handwriting✓ YesNo
Math✓ YesNo
Bounding boxesNo✓ Yes
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

Qianfan OCR

Baidu's OCR-tuned vision model. Strong on Chinese documents and tables.

Qianfan OCR 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": "baidu/qianfan-ocr",
  "fallbacks": ["abbyy/finereader"],
  "file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}

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