Excellent! I'm a satisfied customer, and the customer service people have always attended to me promptly

1. I use abbyFine Reader to convert pdf, scanned documents, and photographic documents with text into the text of other formats or ebook formats of my choice (.epub, .azw3. .rtf, Word, Wordperfect, Html, Microsoft Word, editable pdf, etc.). AbbyFine Reader 15 is the only software to convert ebooks by recognizing pictures or tables and recognizing the layout in the source document as much as possible. 2. I use AbbyFineReader-15 and the version before to clean out unwanted text from a document. I mean, cut out unnecessary information I do not want to appear in my documents, or ebook or text conversion, or when I produce audios from the outputs 3. FineReader 15, as I have tested side by side with other pdf editors, can compare two documents of different formats of up to 5,000 – 10,000 pages or even more without asking you to reduce them into smaller chunks. 4. I have found AbbyFineReaderPDF-15 and the versions before the current version very useful for repairing photocopied items, cropping documents, and repairing mixed photographic and text pdf files with unassailable OCR capabilities. 5. I can search, insert, and delete blocks of text from pdf files. 6. Price-wise, this software is an investment, a must-have for organizations and individuals who handle documents of different formats, for people in academics, and people who move content from PDF to other multimedia formats.

So far so good, BUT add new functionalities, like (1) audio capabilities, (2) converting pdf to Publisher, (3) Improving ebook conversion

I compiled instructional material from various sources, formattedl it to suit the needs of my publication, adjusted to fit if scanned, sharpened if needed, rearranged, and edited it--all with this one bit of software. In editing my own documents, I could add in printed and typewritten documents (The OCR is the best I have ever used.) and thereby use material made by obsolete technology, of which I have quite a supply,.

I was able to convert docs to pdf (and vice-versa), scan, correct the scan's position and sharpness, perform OCR when wanted, add and rearrange pages, and edit pdfs with one set of integrated software, essentially with one program.

My use of the software has been somewhat more limited than what one might find in a large corporate business office, but there is nothing about the software that I don't like.

convertying pdf to excel. pretty good, but not perfect

way to slow to open pdf file. in converting to pdf and save file, it does not take the file name and put into title. you have do do this manually. the tital is what is displayed at top of screen when pdf opened, not the file name.

So easy to use, install and deploy in our organization

licensing is a little cumbersome. on company workgroups, licensing issues such as the same license installed on more systems that allowed, should include some kind of report usage (license number, ip address, netbios machine name)

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

There are many PDF files that have different way of aligning the Prices of their Catalogs. ABBYY was the closest vs others application to aligned them in a proper way and less editing. Saving us time and process.

Just how easy it is to convert PDF files to Excel.

We didn't have any issues. Everything was there what we normally need it.

Convenient, easy to work with, excellent quality.

Cannot do all formats with the same quality.

ABBYY FineReader PDF is a high-performance scanning and OCR software that offers great features for managing and editing PDF documents. Despite the high cost and some limitations in terms of editing features and media compatibility, it remains an ideal solution for professionals and individuals who need a reliable and easy-to-use scanning and OCR tool.The benefits of ABBYY FineReader PDF include superior scan quality, powerful OCR features, ease of use, cross-platform compatibility, and the ability to convert PDFs to other formats. Besides, the software also has many editing features to customize the documents.However, disadvantages include high cost, slow scanning time for large documents, limitations in editing features and media compatibility, as well as the need to have some experience and technical knowledge to take full advantage of software.Ultimately, if you're looking for premium scanning and OCR software with advanced editing features, ABBYY FineReader PDF is a great choice. However, if you have specific media compatibility needs and are on a budget, you may need to consider other options on the market.

ABBYY FineReader PDF is a high-performance, easy-to-use scanning and OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software. Here are some of its key benefits:Superior scanning quality: ABBYY FineReader PDF software is equipped with state-of-the-art scanning technology that allows you to scan documents with superior quality, especially for images and texts.Powerful OCR features: ABBYY FineReader PDF is able to recognize characters very accurately, which makes it possible to turn scanned documents into editable documents. It supports many languages, including Asian languages.Ease of use: The software is user-friendly and easy to use. It offers an intuitive interface that allows scanning and editing documents with just a few clicks. It also comes with plenty of editing tools to customize documents.Converting PDF to other formats: ABBYY FineReader PDF allows converting PDF to other formats such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and others. This feature is very useful for editing PDF documents.Cross-platform compatibility: The software is compatible with Windows, macOS and Linux, which makes it very versatile.In summary, ABBYY FineReader PDF is a very powerful and comprehensive software for scanning, OCR and editing documents. Its ease of use and scanning quality make it an ideal choice for professionals and individuals.

Although ABBYY FineReader PDF is a very capable scanning and OCR software, there are also some disadvantages to consider:High cost: The price of ABBYY FineReader PDF is relatively high compared to other similar software in the market. This can be a drawback for people looking for a lower cost solution.Slow scan time: High scan quality can slow down the scanning process, especially for large documents. This can cause delays and longer wait times for users.Limitations in editing features: Although ABBYY FineReader PDF offers editing tools to customize documents, it may lack some advanced features, which may be disappointing for some users.Limitations in media file compatibility: The software does not support all types of media files, which can be a drawback for users who need to work with media files in addition to PDF files.Need for technical knowledge: Although the software is user-friendly, users must have some experience and technical knowledge to take advantage of all its features.In summary, ABBYY FineReader PDF is a powerful software for scanning and OCR, but it can be negated and have limitations in some editing features and compatibility with multimedia files. Users also need to have some experience and technical knowledge to use the software.

I like many features in this pdf editor, maybe the most practical one is the after scan work like consolidating all the documents in one pdf file, rearrage them, flip if needed, change orientation, then just save the fantastinc result.

A wonderful work on pdf like: - Editing scanned documents - OCR and converting scanned documents to word or Excell - Consolidating files

I would like the OCR to work better on Arabic language like it's working perfectly on English and French, one other thing is Excell may also need some improvements, maybe it's already done on the latest version.

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.

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.

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.

ABBYY FineReader is a leader in OCR software and that means that their OCR is the best. It can perform character recognition in any language. I am amazed by all the functions that this piece of software has but one thing is so cool and I use it almost every day to help me organize papers in my office. That is "Hot Folder" - every time you add some document into the desired folder it automatically converts it for you into any type of document you want. It can be editable PDF, Word or any other combination you would ever want. It can do it! Text is recognized very well and without any errors almost every time.

Sometimes it is struggling with some special letters from foreign languages like Cyrillic or some letters like čćšđž and many times I found that those are recognized wrong. Also, it tends to keep layout and formatting as the original document but sometimes it doesn't work well. Also, when you are trying to manually select area for the recognition it can be very hard and tiring to do all that manually because the software didn't recognize page properly. Most of the times that is not needed but when you are shooting or scanning in lower resolutions be prepared for that.

general great, I preferred online OCR tool in the past

high-quality output, the best results comparing to the other products

freezing, sometimes have to reinstall it again

Earlier I had to work a lot with the documents of our company and client contracts. For example, the customer brought a paper version of the contract, I scanned it, recognized it, rules of error, etc. And all this happened with the help of Fine Reader professional versions. I also like that you can translate and save in various formats. For example, text in the format djwu or pdf, and even not copied, after carrying out the text through this program you can save the text in Word and use it anywhere and anyhow. In general, this is a simple and convenient program, albeit not cheap.

I happened that some versions of ABBYY Fine Reader did not recognize the printer and I had to reinstall the program or run to a colleague and ask him to print the necessary document processed in the application. In doing so, I had a standard Canon printer, so there should not be any problems.

I use it very often to convert pdf files into an editable document. But, once, I used it to digitize a document, of 300 pages, which I had in paper format. It allowed me to faithfully reconstruct the document, in an editable version; and all this, collecting it in a single pdf file. This software is awesome.

A software that has largely proven itself. The king of file conversion, and making it editable. And now that they have integrated AI, it becomes even more extraordinary. If you have a pdf, image, or paper file, not yet scanned, that you want to transform into an editable digital version, don't look any further, use ABBYY Fine Reader. And it can do the reverse. The OCR technology used is excellent, even if sometimes you have to use the keyboard (it depends on the quality of the document to be converted). Fine Reader is an excellent tool that makes it easy to process files that were thought impossible to process.

For the moment, I have no complaints about this tool, it suits me perfectly.

Mostly for converting PDFs when multiple files need to be processed at once, as it allows you to upload multiple at a time. It also gives the option to convert all of them into a single Word file or to convert them separately. FineReader is also nice because it converts file formats other than PDFs (Acrobat does not).

FineReader sometimes is slow to open a PDF directly, which is why she switched back to Acrobat as the default.

I hate typing. This software helps me avoid typing and yet be productive.

Amazed with this software which I wonder should have known earlier for my typing needs for my internet cafe. Earlier, I used to type manually all the typing jobs I used to receive in hard copy. When I came to know about this software, I could not believe that just with a scan copy of printed text, the technology could sense and give me output in word form. Typing is after all a monotonous job. I now just scan the hard copy and done. Also, no need to type manually jpg or pdf files, saving lot of time and energy adding productivity to the work place.

However, the software too often fails when the hard copy is hand written instead of typed text. There is a lot of room for improvement here and the makers of this software should be aware of the same. Hopefully, future versions should also be adept in figuring out hand-written texts accurately.

It does what we need

Fast, accurate. Okay support. I’d like to see pricing more customer friendly.

Subscription sucks , I favor purchasing.

I like the software. I have used previous versions of it (Finereader 11), I have upgraded to the latest version of Finereader PDF and will undoubtedly upgrade again in future years.

I originally bought version 11 of this software for Optical Character Recognition and converting photos of text to Word documents. It was the best OCR software I had found at a reasonable price and now I have updated to the most recent version of Finereader PDF.

I can't think of any major problem I've had with this software. The user interface is easy to use and the software does what it says it will do.

I have been using Fine Reader ever since the 4 version appeared on sale and is very pleased with the result of the work. For example, if earlier only the text of excellent quality was suitable for recognition, now the photo from the phone is quite suitable for the program. I, for example, so easily recognize the preliminary contracts that customers bring. I just take pictures of them on my phone, transfer them to a computer and then easily process the document as I need.

Some characters, often found in my documents, Fine Reader has never learned to recognize. I have to insert such symbols in manual mode, which takes a lot of time.

FineReadear is still one of the best OCR softwares out there and I've been using it for the last 15 years. But I have to admit that there are more and more free solutions out there which offer similar functionalities.

One of the oldest and best OCR softwares

There are some free solutions which offer similar functionalities.

Overall experience has been amazing. It is one of the best OCRs in the market, better than tesseract and MODI

The OCR capability is amazing, works pretty well.

Not so easy to use, doesn't work well with handwritten documents