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ABBYY FineReader PDF
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PDF solution for document editing and digital collaboration

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ABBYY FineReader PDF Pricing, Features, Reviews and Alternatives

ABBYY FineReader PDF product overview

Price starts from

199

One-time payment

Flat Rate

What is 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.

Key benefits of using 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
Mid size businesses
Large enterprises

Platforms supported

Web
Android
iPhone/iPad

Support options

Chat

Training options

Videos
Documentation

ABBYY FineReader PDF pricing information

Value for money

4.5

/5

294

Starting from

199

One-time payment

Flat Rate

Pricing options

Free plan
Subscription
Free trial
Pricing range

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ABBYY FineReader PDF features

Functionality

4.5

/5

294

Total features

30

4 categories

Most valued features by users

Multi-Language
Access Controls/Permissions
Annotations
Archiving & Retention
Batch Processing
Collaboration Tools
Commenting/Notes
Convert to PDF

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ABBYY FineReader PDF users reviews

Overall Rating

4.7

/5

294

Positive reviews

Rating breakdown
  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend8.7/10
Rating distribution

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56

10

3

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Pros
Abbyy Fine Reader has greatly improved over the years and i expect great things from them in the future as technology evolves.
I like the many available languages and a large number of functions that allow us to quickly recognize significant amounts of text. There is integration with popular cloud services.
ABBYY is the best OCR software I've worked with, overall, my experience has been very good, especially when working with converting tables to OCR content.
Cons
The biggest problem this software product have is a price. Also marketing/promotional reasoning about it is so lame.
There will always be document parts which will be badly recognized and you'll have to update some parts of the content manually.
The program used to be very bad. Auto brightness and a preview of the result did not work there.

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Kevin H.

Kevin

Law Practice, 51-200 employees

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Overall Rating

Great product

Reviewed 2 years ago

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Ray M.

President

Government Relations, 1-10 employees

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Overall Rating

Great Time Saver!

Reviewed 4 months ago

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Jelena U.

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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

Reviewed 5 years ago

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.

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Food Production, 201-500 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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Best User Friendly OCR Software available in the market to save your money and time in 2023

Reviewed 5 months ago

Sometimes we doesn’t have enough time to type or spend to write a formal letter in our busy works schedule. There are lot of solutions are available in the Google or digital world, one of those alternative, I found ABBYY FineReader as one of best alternative I have ever used. This is basically a OCR software, which convert any digital readable data into a editable and readable data as per your requirements....

Pros

It is perfect for working with these records and digitizes archives without any problem into various formats , as Microsoft Succeed, Rich Text Configuration, Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, HTML, PDF/A, accessible PDF, CSV, and txt (plain text) documents. ABBYY is the best OCR programming Software I've worked with and that can assist you with changing over PDFs into editable text documents easily. My experience has been excellent with this, particularly while working with switching tables over completely to OCR content. The numerous accessible dialects and an enormous number of capabilities that permit us to perceive huge measures of text rapidly is outstanding. There is mix with dedicated famous cloud administrations.

Cons

Pricing:There are lot alternative options are available in the markets like Foxit PhantomPDF, Tesseract and Amazon Textract, Google Docs etc. Some of the alternative are relative very cheap/free compare to this. The pricing is little bit Costly in comparison with others options available in the markets.Accessibility:This software is Not accessible for Mobile phones. It can be improved in that respect to accessible in Android and IOS systems of all Mobile Phones.Conversion:Sometimes it converts the data in non-editable Box/image format or digitize the data in wrongly (errors of spelling) ,these mostly are doing when are not clearly recognizable or our main data sheet was in handwritten. User may faces difficulty at that times to works with this Software.

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Jarett W.

E-Learning, 10,001+ employees

Used monthly for 2+ years

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  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend1/10

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It's fine - but nothing like PDF Element, Nitro for handling large files, OCR is ok

Reviewed a year ago

I liked the customer support for transferring my license from PC to Mac and back. Other than that, I only used it as an OCR engine until I found a better product. Can't draw (e.g. like in Notability), cross-platform is sub-par, the UI is not so easy. Other than OCR, I had no reason to use it.

Pros

OCR was useful for conversion (but the engine is a bit outdated)

Cons

The UI is non-intuitive, can't handle large PDFs (e.g. writing notes in a book), no collaboration, expensive for students - waste of money

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Netram M.

Financial Services, 501-1,000 employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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  • Ease of use
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  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend7/10

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Fantastic PDF files reader and editor software.

Reviewed 6 months ago

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.

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Nathan F.

Construction, 11-50 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend7/10

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Converts from PDF to Excle seamlessly

Reviewed 5 months ago

Been using the product for about 5 years and Acrobat has neve performed as well (which is why we are using Abbyy)

Pros

The ability to convert just what I need in a document without all of the extemperaneous informaiton that is not critical to my work product

Cons

The inability to recognize a poor scan with dust as not being characters

ABBYY FineReader PDF FAQs

Q. What type of pricing plans does ABBYY FineReader PDF offer?

ABBYY FineReader PDF has the following pricing plans:
Starting from: $199.00
Pricing model: One Time License
Free Trial: Available


Q. Who are the typical users of ABBYY FineReader PDF?

ABBYY FineReader PDF has the following typical customers:
Freelancers, Large Enterprises, Mid Size Business, Public Administrations, Small Business

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Q. What languages does ABBYY FineReader PDF support?

ABBYY FineReader PDF supports the following languages:
Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Ukrainian

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Q. Does ABBYY FineReader PDF support mobile devices?

ABBYY FineReader PDF supports the following devices:
Android, iPad, iPhone

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Q. Does ABBYY FineReader PDF offer an API?

No, ABBYY FineReader PDF does not have an API available.

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Q. What level of support does ABBYY FineReader PDF offer?

ABBYY FineReader PDF offers the following support options:
Chat

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