SmolDocling vs ABBYY FineReader
SmolDocling is cheaper per page; SmolDocling is faster; only SmolDocling supports math; only ABBYY FineReader supports multilingual.
SmolDoclinghuggingface/smoldocling | ABBYY FineReaderabbyy/finereader | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Very cheap page conversion | Office scans to Word and PDF |
| Inputs | PDF, images | PDF, images |
| Languages | Mainly English | 190+ languages |
| Max pages per request | 500 | 1,000 |
| Tables | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Handwriting | No | No |
| Math | ✓ Yes | No |
| Bounding boxes | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Confidence | No | No |
| Forms | No | No |
| Multilingual | No | ✓ 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
SmolDocling
Tiny 256M vision model from Hugging Face and IBM that outputs DocTags. Predecessor of Granite Docling.
SmolDocling detailsABBYY FineReader
Long-standing desktop OCR software. ABBYY also sells OCR SDKs and a cloud API. Price is an estimate.
ABBYY FineReader detailsUse one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "huggingface/smoldocling",
"fallbacks": ["abbyy/finereader"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}