TrOCR vs Adobe Acrobat OCR
TrOCR is cheaper per page; TrOCR is faster; only TrOCR supports handwriting; only Adobe Acrobat OCR supports multilingual.
TrOCRmicrosoft/trocr | Adobe Acrobat OCRadobe/acrobat-ocr | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Open source | OCR API |
| Price | 1 credit / page | 14 credits / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $1.00 | $14.00 |
| Typical speed | 1.2 s / page | 2.0 s / page |
| Best for | Handwritten text lines | Searchable PDFs in Acrobat |
| Inputs | images | PDF, images |
| Languages | English | Major European and Asian languages |
| Max pages per request | 100 | 1,000 |
| Tables | No | No |
| Handwriting | ✓ Yes | No |
| Math | No | No |
| Bounding boxes | No | No |
| 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
TrOCR
Transformer text recognition model. Reads single text lines, including handwriting.
TrOCR 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": "microsoft/trocr",
"fallbacks": ["adobe/acrobat-ocr"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}