Amazon Textract vs Adobe Acrobat OCR
Amazon Textract is cheaper per page; Amazon Textract is faster; only Amazon Textract supports tables, forms, handwriting, bounding boxes, confidence; only Adobe Acrobat OCR supports multilingual.
Amazon Textractaws/textract | Adobe Acrobat OCRadobe/acrobat-ocr | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | OCR API | OCR API |
| Price | 6 credits / page | 14 credits / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $6.00 | $14.00 |
| Typical speed | 1.2 s / page | 2.0 s / page |
| Best for | Forms and key-value extraction | Searchable PDFs in Acrobat |
| Inputs | PDF, images | PDF, images |
| Languages | 6 languages | Major European and Asian languages |
| Max pages per request | 3,000 | 1,000 |
| Tables | ✓ Yes | No |
| Handwriting | ✓ Yes | No |
| Math | No | No |
| Bounding boxes | ✓ Yes | No |
| Confidence | ✓ Yes | No |
| Forms | ✓ Yes | No |
| Multilingual | No | ✓ Yes |
| On OCRRouter | Available | 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
Amazon Textract
AWS OCR with form key-value pairs, tables and per-word confidence scores.
Amazon Textract detailsAdobe Acrobat OCR
OCR built into Acrobat desktop. Adobe PDF Services API also offers OCR. Price is an estimate.
Adobe Acrobat OCR detailsUse one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "aws/textract",
"fallbacks": ["adobe/acrobat-ocr"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}