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ABBYY FineReader PDF

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PDF solution for document editing and digital collaboration

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Akshila
Akshila
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  • Industry: Consumer Goods
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

ABBYY FineReader PDF

Reviewed on 03/11/2022

Overall this is really good to use and recommend to use.

Overall this is really good to use and recommend to use.

Pros

ABBYY FineReader PDF contains all the features that I need and is so user-friendly. Can do pdf conversion really easily. well manage the user interface.

Cons

No cons, really easy to use. really user-friendly interface.

ILKER
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  • Industry: Translation & Localization
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

ABBY IS ONE OF THE BEST OCR AND PDF APPLICATION

Reviewed on 11/12/2023

I have used this software since its beginning, decades passed away .

I have used this software since its beginning, decades passed away .

Pros

As an Translaiton Office, Abbyy from morning until evening, it is an indispenzable need for running our business.

Cons

Georgian OCR is missing, not available.

Ricardo
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  • Industry: Writing & Editing
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10

After years Abbyy still carries several disappointing defects that don't justify it's price

Reviewed on 23/06/2023

It's impresses me that I've been using Abby for many years and it still carries many of the same...

It's impresses me that I've been using Abby for many years and it still carries many of the same defects it has always had; it sometimes does perfect conversions into Ms word but quite oftenly it renders a file in which I have to make many corrections before start working with it. The precisión to detect the characters has improved over the years and sometimes it can detect complex tables, which is nice to see, but regarding tables with not clear imprinted lines the program files to detect them at all.

Pros

That only sometimes renders a perfect conversion into Ms word that I can use to work, and I mean a file where I don't have to remake any parts of the text or recapture images, etc.

Cons

That it changes the page I'm working on just by scrolling, that's tedious. That's solves many of the text by putting it into a floating case box, and that's terrible and cannot be turned off. That many obvious tables are not detected by Abbyy when automatic converting, specially those without visible lines. That it fails to detect structures when converting scanned pages. That the function of detecting the headers and foots almost always fails, but instead it tries to convert as headers parts of the text that are not. Correcting all the above is time-consuming, which is contrary to the purpose of this program. And recently there is a contradiction between doing things in the main window of the OCR editor I'm doing them at the detailed window, for example if I try to select one cell to be treated as an image, it's conflicts the problem if I chose it at the main window or at the detail window, with the first one generally overriding the second. I'm now in Windows 11 the program crashes a lot.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

A very good Solution that could be The Best

Reviewed on 14/12/2023

I believe this is, in the end, a very good solution, it makes a lot of things very well, but it has...

I believe this is, in the end, a very good solution, it makes a lot of things very well, but it has to be improved to be the very best in-class. Also, I used to get in touch with Support and I have to say it is a very-full-quality Customer Support, well prepared and kind.

Pros

Easy of usage, processing batch files, a lot of different output format, standard OCR capabilities, and opening to OCR custom training

Cons

Output to Excel (tables are really not fully detected, even text within cells, with a lot of work to do in the end) and Word (every text appear converted in annoying frames, difficult to remove or manage at all) mostly have to be really improved to be the best.
OCR must be improved very much. You have bad result if you want to recognize document in Greek (most part of diacritics are not well detected) and, with Hebrew, is literally a worst situation (you have not vowels and all diacritics). If you try to do by yourself, using custom OCR training, it's a very long journey and you don't even get a good result, and many times it's even not so clear if you are using your custom training set or not and even is really not clear why you cannot use one only feature to perform "verify" and "ocr training" in one only function/feature/action.

Jack
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  • Industry: Accounting
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Try The Best Full Feature PDF Editor

Reviewed on 14/12/2023

I was getting frustrated with Adobe Acrobat and the fashion the company was taking it. I use the...

I was getting frustrated with Adobe Acrobat and the fashion the company was taking it. I use the Fujitsu Scansnap and the Standard ABBYY Finereader was included with the scanner. Once I tried the full version of ABBYY, I was sold

Pros

Once I familiarized myself with the interface, the program worked as needed. No need to keep referring back to Dr Google or support.

Cons

The initial interface. It took me a few weeks to look for things. For example, it was easy to delete a page...remove a page and set up a different PDF? That one has too many steps.

Tania
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  • Industry: Translation & Localization
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Good quality OCR

Reviewed on 14/12/2023

I am very pleased and it's a most valuable tool in my everyday work, as I receive the documents to...

I am very pleased and it's a most valuable tool in my everyday work, as I receive the documents to be translated in PDF form.

Pros

Better quality of OCR produce than Adobe Acrobat and 10x better price.
It gives me the possibility to change resolution and other parameters, choose what I want to be recognised in a page and, furthermore, format tables etc so that the editable document produced is near enough to what I need.

Cons

Sometimes, when the content of the pdf is "scattered" and not continuous, it breaks the content of the page into smaller parts that are recognised as "shapes" and, therefore, difficult to handle as text.

Megan
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  • Industry: Higher Education
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Monthly for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Best ocr for archival historical documents, but not perfect

Reviewed on 22/05/2024

Good, but wish the ocr were were even better, and correctable.

Good, but wish the ocr were were even better, and correctable.

Pros

Does better than Adobe in ocr-ing messy archival documents for historical research. Still not perfect, though. Don't expect very great accuracy.

Cons

There's no way to correct ocr mistakes like you can in Adobe acrobat.

Mari
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  • Industry: Accounting
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 1.0 /10

A nightmare to set up

Reviewed on 15/12/2023

A nightmare to set up
OCR not very accurate
Scanning is good

A nightmare to set up
OCR not very accurate
Scanning is good

Pros

Product is good.

Purchase and set up a complete nightmare. Getting the serial number to activate required legal threats.

Was sold with a free mobile version which
Eventually i got a link for but would not install.

I only got help when i raised a complaint with paypal.

Cons

Setup and administration.

Their payment and processing system seems to be completely independant of issuing license numbers

Emre
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  • Industry: Writing & Editing
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

ABBYY fine reader is one of the best in the market. But it is limited on Macos.

Reviewed on 14/12/2023

My experience with the Abbyy fine reader has been generally positive, and ocr performance is key...

My experience with the Abbyy fine reader has been generally positive, and ocr performance is key for me. In this way, scanning the texts that were sent as photos and making them readable with e-reader devices made my life much easier. I can even say that abbyy fine reader played a significant role in increasing my productivity.

Pros

Its ocr features are one of my favorites. I think no other ocr reader can beat the abbyy fine reader's ocr performance.

Cons

The fact that its "inverting color option" is not available on Macos bothers me quite a lot. That's why I had to return to other applicatons.

Michael
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  • Industry: Religious Institutions
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Monthly for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Great OCR!

Reviewed on 14/12/2023

Overall, I have had a good relationship with the software. I upgraded to a newer version to get the...

Overall, I have had a good relationship with the software. I upgraded to a newer version to get the ability to OCR Old German Script. While not as accurate as English, it still does probably 99% accuracy on a clean page.

Pros

ABBYY is simply the best OCR software that I have tried, overall. The broad range of languages and the ability to straighten up crooked lines is very amazing. I have put some very poor quality page images through and ABBYY did excellent work of making something out of them. No miracles, of course, but very good.

Cons

A few times I have had the software lock up while doing a big OCR job (like an 800-page book). Also, I do not like having to do subscription service; I prefer buying the software outright because I am not a high volume user.

Ivelina
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  • Industry: Translation & Localization
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

My favourite program

Reviewed on 14/12/2023

Pros

Convenient, easy to work with, excellent quality.

Cons

Cannot do all formats with the same quality.

Fanny
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  • Industry: Information Services
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Great value for money

Reviewed on 22/05/2024

I use Abbyy to convert PDF documents into Word format, so it's easier to edit the document....

I use Abbyy to convert PDF documents into Word format, so it's easier to edit the document. Sometimes there are images or graphics I can use. That saves time.

Pros

Abbyy FineReader PDF has become an indispensable tool in my daily work. Document editing and information flow more smoothly. I love how easy it is to use. The options it offers are perfect. It's just what I need.

Cons

I don't see any drawbacks yet. I use Abbyy Finereader PDF for 3 years now.

Gregory
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  • Industry: Law Practice
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Ease of Use
  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

OCR: Should be able to select an area to apply "Levels" in "Edit Image."

Reviewed on 22/05/2024

Best of the best.

Best of the best.

Pros

Accuracy. Features. Ease of use.

Cons

OCR: Can't select an area to apply "Levels" in "Edit Image."

Lior
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  • Industry: Medical Practice
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Very Good product

Reviewed on 22/05/2024

Pros

The variaty of language one can use when using different litteratures and when scanning and converting documents as well as editing.

Cons

nothing really. It is a simple and efficient.

Juan
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  • Industry: Alternative Dispute Resolution
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

A must app for any professional

Reviewed on 14/12/2023

I really love the app. It is my favorite productivity app hands down.

I really love the app. It is my favorite productivity app hands down.

Pros

It is a high quality productivity app. It has a lot of awesome features to process many different kind of file formats, especially PDFs. I have been using it since 2014, and it is my #1 productivity app.

Cons

As a Mac user, I would love the app to be compatible with AppleScript for automatization purposes. Previous verions of the software (FineReader OCR Pro), is compatible with AppleScript.

Anton
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 0.0 /10

Unsolved problem with saving scanned PDF files - pages differ in size

Reviewed on 26/12/2023

Frustrating - it failed me after many years of service. The current service level is close to zero.

Frustrating - it failed me after many years of service. The current service level is close to zero.

Pros

I was quite OK with previous versions of ABBYY FineReader - been using it for about 10 years.

Cons

However, ABBYY FineReader 16 on a Win 10 machine is saving scanned PDF docs with pages of different sizes. I did not find any solution in ABBYY knowledge base, and was not able to submit a service ticket since the SUBMIT button just did not respond without any hints. A typical case of product degradation :((

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Publishing
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Monthly for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Publishing with ABBY FineReader

Reviewed on 23/05/2024

It has been useful to me for scanning and converting old scripts into Final Draft.

It has been useful to me for scanning and converting old scripts into Final Draft.

Pros

I love how easily it converted a script into a special software I use called Final Draft.

Cons

The initial learning curve was not intuitive to me.

Zyad
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  • Industry: Construction
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

OCR that supports all languages

Reviewed on 10/12/2023

I use ABBYY FineReader PDF to convert scanned PDFs to Excel or Word so that they can be edited, I...

I use ABBYY FineReader PDF to convert scanned PDFs to Excel or Word so that they can be edited, I have been using ABBYY FineReader PDF for more than 4 years and I like this application as it provided a great OCR feature.

Pros

ABBYY FineReader PDF has the best and most accurate OCR tool in the world. The ABBYY FineReader PDF OCR tool supports all languages, especially the most complicated ones like Arabic language. Also, the OCR gives high quality and accurate results and can be converted to Excel, Word, and text.

Cons

ABBYY FineReader PDF is not the best PDF editor or viewer, the text editing is somehow more complicated than other PDF editor applications. I wish they could upgrade and enhance PDF editing features to become the most integrated PDF software.

Theodoros
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  • Industry: Translation & Localization
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Highest-quality OCR on the market

Reviewed on 14/12/2023

Pros

- The best OCR I have encountered so far
- Innovative "Document compare" feature
- User-friendly OCR editor for manual corrections
- Multiple format export options

Cons

- No full-text indexing for fast searches
- Removing the "Low-confidence character highlight" in the exported documents is impractical and cumbersome

Chris
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  • Industry: Legal Services
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

ABBYY FineReader Pro

Reviewed on 14/12/2023

Excellent Product, been using it for years. Since FineReader 4

Excellent Product, been using it for years. Since FineReader 4

Pros

Ease of use, Accuracy, and export options

Cons

Licensing model for reinstalls is annoying

Laszlo
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  • Industry: Translation & Localization
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

this is my review

Reviewed on 16/12/2023

Pros

Gives qite precise results in recognition

Cons

Sometimes it recognizes falsely, above all when text is calligraphic or tilted

Holly
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  • Industry: Education Management
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Monthly for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10

ABBYY for OCR

Reviewed on 22/05/2024

Pros

ABBYY is incredibly fine-tuned to OCR and I trust it more than other OCR programs.

Cons

ABBYY is not intuitive and others who do no use the program regularly find it difficult to navigate.

Roberto
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  • Industry: Professional Training & Coaching
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Great tool!

Reviewed on 23/06/2023

It´s the best pdf editing tool I know so far and I tried a lot different tools, when I worked as an...

It´s the best pdf editing tool I know so far and I tried a lot different tools, when I worked as an administrator.

Pros

What I like most about Abby is the simplicity, the reliability and the speed which helps me very much to work fast and on my own speed.

Cons

Editing text is not as easy as I would prefer it or better, not everything is so easy to be edited by Abby.

Emil
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  • Industry: Legal Services
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 1.0 /10

Good product

Reviewed on 22/05/2024

Pros

Ease od use, it is easy to use the product i am happy

Cons

Nothing. Every thing is good snd i like the fine reader

Ivan
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  • Industry: Civic & Social Organization
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Ease of Use
  • Customer Support
  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Ivanhoe_review

Reviewed on 14/12/2023

on the whole almost satisfaction as far as I am concerned

on the whole almost satisfaction as far as I am concerned

Pros

Easily usage, relatively enough operations

Cons

Inaccessibility some functionalities at single version of product