Which is cheaper, Unstructured or Adobe Acrobat OCR?

Adobe Acrobat OCR. Unstructured is 20 credits / page and Adobe Acrobat OCR is 14 credits / page.

Which is more accurate?

It depends on the document. Unstructured is strongest at mixed file types into rag, and Adobe Acrobat OCR at searchable pdfs in acrobat. Run a few of your own files through both and compare the output.

Yes. Put one as model and the other in fallbacks. If the first fails, the second reads the page, and you pay only for the one that answered.

Unstructured vs Adobe Acrobat OCR

Adobe Acrobat OCR is cheaper per page; Adobe Acrobat OCR is faster; only Unstructured supports tables, bounding boxes.

Get API key All models

	Unstructured`unstructured/unstructured`	Adobe Acrobat OCR`adobe/acrobat-ocr`
Type	OCR API	OCR API
Price	20 credits / page	14 credits / page
Per 1,000 pages	$20.00	$14.00
Typical speed	3.0 s / page	2.0 s / page
Best for	Mixed file types into RAG	Searchable PDFs in Acrobat
Inputs	PDF, images, DOCX	PDF, images
Languages	Multilingual	Major European and Asian languages
Max pages per request	1,000	1,000
Tables	✓ Yes	No
Handwriting	No	No
Math	No	No
Bounding boxes	✓ Yes	No
Confidence	No	No
Forms	No	No
Multilingual	✓ Yes	✓ 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

Unstructured

Document ETL for RAG. Partitions many file types into typed elements; open-source library too.

Unstructured 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": "unstructured/unstructured",
  "fallbacks": ["adobe/acrobat-ocr"],
  "file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}

Questions

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