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Surya vs Adobe Acrobat OCR

Surya is cheaper per page; Surya is faster; only Surya supports tables, bounding boxes.

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Suryadatalab/suryaAdobe Acrobat OCRadobe/acrobat-ocr
TypeOpen sourceOCR API
Price2 credits / page14 credits / page
Per 1,000 pages$2.00$14.00
Typical speed1.5 s / page2.0 s / page
Best forLayout and line-level OCRSearchable PDFs in Acrobat
InputsPDF, imagesPDF, images
Languages90+ languagesMajor European and Asian languages
Max pages per request5001,000
Tables✓ YesNo
HandwritingNoNo
MathNoNo
Bounding boxes✓ YesNo
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

Surya

Open-source OCR toolkit with line detection, layout analysis, reading order and tables.

Surya 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": "datalab/surya",
  "fallbacks": ["adobe/acrobat-ocr"],
  "file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}

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