ABBYY FineReader PDF

PDF solution for document editing and digital collaboration

About ABBYY FineReader PDF

ABBYY FineReader PDF is designed to help individuals and businesses create PDF documents and streamline editing workflows. It can be used to convert, edit, and share various types of custom PDFs, such as editable forms. Teams working in digital workspaces can collaborate and approve PDFs from remote locations across the globe. ABBYY FineReader PDF is available in multiple languages including English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Chinese, and others.

This PDF solution uses OCR to automatically digitize document scans and extract text. Users can use the ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 mobile app to scan paper documents via iOS or Android devices. With search, replace, and redact features, users can search through entire document content including comments, headers/footers, and metadata. Other features include side-by-side document comparisons, split PDFs, protect and sign PDFs, fill out forms, mark up and annotate, commenting, plus more.

Pricing starting from:

US$199.00/one-time

  • Free Version
  • Free Trial
  • Subscription

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Key benefits of ABBYY FineReader PDF

Create, edit, and organize PDFs
Create fillable PDF forms
Collaborate on and approve PDFs
Compare documents in different formats
Protect and sign PDFs
Digitize paper documents and scans with OCR
Automate digitization and conversion routines
Flexible licensing: per seat, concurrent, remote

Typical Customers

  • Freelancers
  • Small Businesses (2-50)
  • Mid-size Companies (51-500)
  • Large enterprises (500 and more)

Deployment

  • Cloud-based
  • On-premise

Markets

Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra and 225 others

Supported Languages

Croatian, Czech, English, French, German and 10 others

Pricing starting from:

US$199.00/one-time

  • Free Version
  • Free Trial
  • Subscription

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Features

Total features of ABBYY FineReader PDF: 30

  • Access Controls/Permissions
  • Annotations
  • Archiving & Retention
  • Batch Processing
  • Collaboration Tools
  • Commenting/Notes
  • Convert to PDF
  • Digital Signature
  • Document Capture
  • Document Generation
  • Document Storage
  • Electronic Signature
  • Encryption
  • File Conversion
  • File Sharing
  • Forms Management
  • Full Text Search
  • Image Editing
  • Image Pre-processing
  • Indexing
  • Merge/Append Files
  • Metadata Extraction
  • Multi-Language
  • Multiple Output Formats
  • Offline Access
  • Optical Character Recognition
  • PDF Reader
  • Side-by-Side Comparison
  • Text Editing
  • Watermarking

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Reviews

Overall rating

4.7 /5
(286)
Value for Money
4.5/5
Features
4.5/5
Ease of Use
4.5/5
Customer Support
4.5/5

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Jelena
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  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source

Overall rating

  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
  • Customer Support
  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Powerfull tool for document archiving, document conversion, OCR and digitalization.

Reviewed on 17/05/2018

If you need to work with documents, this is a great tool for recognition, digitalization and...

If you need to work with documents, this is a great tool for recognition, digitalization and conversion. Price is high and it uses high resources on a computer. If you have a high volume of documents to work with, this is a great tool.

Pros

Abbyy FineReader support for almost all languages is impressive. We use many different languages, so it is very important for us to have a tool that can recognize well.
It is easy to use, with the simplified interface, one can work fast, through materials.
FineReader can export to different types which is also a great function.
Convert document formats and make them searchable, from scanned documents, screenshots or images to pdfs and html.
It is very good for creating new documents from multiple files, which can be imported in one project then exported to a new file.

Cons

The price is fairly high for those who don't have many documents.
It crashes sometimes while scanning documents with older scanners or when given more demanding tasks, like automatic scan of multiple pages.
If the scan is lower quality, or font is small, there are some mistakes that need to be fixed manualy, which can be time consuming.

Steve
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  • Industry: E-Learning
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source

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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Best Overall PDF software I've found.

Reviewed on 24/05/2022

For the price, still the best program out there, and much improved in recent years. Great alternativ...

For the price, still the best program out there, and much improved in recent years. Great alternative to the terribly priced and overwrought Adobe.

Pros

Ease of Use in combining and editing documents.
Simple to adjust, remove, merge, and edit text.

Cons

OCR function not wholly accurate, but no program is.
Image adjustment is slower and has a steep learning curve. I wish you could work on doc image without first running OCR (adds time). Steeper learning curve on OCR.
Commenting on docs not as clean/clear to follow along as on other programs.

Alternatives Considered

PDF Studio

Reasons for Choosing ABBYY FineReader PDF

Needed a reliable and affordable pdf editor. Reach of the products above failed one of those criteria.

Switched From

Adobe Acrobat Reader and Lumin PDF

Reasons for Switching to ABBYY FineReader PDF

I don't recall
Jonathan
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  • Industry: Law Practice
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
  • Review Source

Overall rating

  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
  • Likelihood to recommend 4.0 /10

My experience with ABBYY FineReader PDF

Reviewed on 18/08/2021

Okay experience, the OCR algorithm of the software needs work, but it's an overall decent product....

Okay experience, the OCR algorithm of the software needs work, but it's an overall decent product. Does what it's supposed to most of the time.

Pros

I liked the UI and UX of the software, it's definitely straight forward and once you install it, you can use it immediately with the easy how to use steps and indicators through out the software.

A lot of times, when I am doing legal research, I had access to number of PDF books, articles etc... and I would want to get a excerpt of the book, article or whatever and I would use FineReader to convert it from PDF to plain text, hence that was the feature that really drew me to FineReader.

Cons

The OCR feature was okay, a lot of times it would incorrectly convert the PDF to text, all sorts of things like special characters would appear, the formatting would be all over the place... and it meant i had to spend some time manually editing it.

Netram
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  • Industry: Financial Services
  • Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
  • Review Source

Overall rating

  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

Fantastic PDF files reader and editor software.

Reviewed on 01/12/2022

Overall I am happy with this PDF reader application, User interface is really simple and straightfor...

Overall I am happy with this PDF reader application, User interface is really simple and straightforward in terms of features.

Pros

ABBYY FineReader is a fantastic application while working with PDF files. I can read, edit, merge in PDF files. the best thing that I like is inbuilt OCR functionalities, it changed my PDF file into an editable format so that I can use text in ms word.

Cons

Before switching to ABBYY finereader I was using adobe acrobat for all my PDF purpose after switching into this I found some features missing like digital signature, page arrangement and missing app from my windows app store.

Christopher
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  • Industry: Arts & Crafts
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used for 1+ year
  • Review Source

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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
  • Customer Support
  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

ABBYY Fine trader PDF Review

Reviewed on 10/07/2021

My overall experience with this software is pretty good I solve a lot of works on different purposes

My overall experience with this software is pretty good I solve a lot of works on different purposes

Pros

This software is very accurate and effective to read make pdfs save important files also to collaborate and merge some.docs

Cons

Sometimes some.features are not too clearly to use and to get all the functions you get to buy a very full version of the software and some people can't get it

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ABBYY FineReader PDF offers the following pricing plans:

  • Starting from: US$199.00/one-time
  • Free Trial: Available

ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 for Windows - Pricing varies for standard ($19 monthly) to corporate ($24 monthly) options. Digitize, retrieve, edit, protect, share, and collaborate on all kinds of documents in the same workflow. Edit digital and scanned PDFs with a newfound ease: correct whole sentences and paragraphs or even adjust the layout. Incorporate paper documents into a digital workplace with AI-based OCR technology to simplify daily work. ABBYY FineReader PDF for Mac® - $69 yearly Manage your documents more easily and perform all document tasks quicker in digital workflows. Convert PDFs, document images and scans with unmatched accuracy Achieve new levels of productivity when converting documents with the latest OCR technology and view and reuse content from PDFs of any kind with ease.

ABBYY FineReader PDF has the following typical customers:

Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000

ABBYY FineReader PDF supports the following languages:

Croatian, Czech, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, Ukrainian

ABBYY FineReader PDF supports the following devices:

Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)

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