--- title: "ABBYY FineReader PDF Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice" description: "Reviews of ABBYY FineReader PDF. Learn how real users rate this software's ease-of-use, functionality, overall quality and customer support. Talk to our advisors to see if ABBYY FineReader PDF is a good fit for you!" source_url: "https://www.softwareadvice.com/ocr/abbyy-finereader-profile/reviews/" page_type: "reviews" language: "en" --- 1 million+ businesses helped. Get advice Get Free Advice [Home](https://www.softwareadvice.com/) / [Document Management Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com/category/722-document-management/) / [ABBYY FineReader PDF](https://www.softwareadvice.com/ocr/abbyy-finereader-profile/) / ABBYY FineReader PDF Reviews Software Advice offers objective insights based on verified user reviews and independent product and market research. When our advisors match you to a software provider, we may earn a referral fee. [Overview](https://www.softwareadvice.com/ocr/abbyy-finereader-profile/) Reviews [Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/ocr/abbyy-finereader-profile/alternatives/) # ABBYY FineReader PDF User Reviews ## Reviews summary - Overall rating: 4.7/5 - Total reviews: 434 ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 4.5/5 - Customer support: 4.4/5 - Value for money: 4.4/5 - Functionality: 4.5/5 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 326 reviews (75%) - 4 stars: 86 reviews (20%) - 3 stars: 15 reviews (3%) - 2 stars: 6 reviews (1%) - 1 star: 1 reviews (0%) ### Most mentioned pros - Ability to scan and convert image files to documents while doing a pretty good job at preserving the formatting. - Even if you are graffiti in the book, you can erase it and edit it is very useful. - I have to convert a lot of PDF accounting statements into tables and ABBYY FineReader helps me do this quickly and in batches. ### Most mentioned cons - The OCR tool doesn't work as seamlessly for all the languages: the program makes many more mistakes when it comes to recognizing non-Latin character based languages, for example, Russian. - I miss really OCN Quality for Japanese and Comment function and "Prooing tools " like text adding, delete tools in PDF like Adobe. - Books published in Korean are often used in other countries that are not used well in other countries. ## ABBYY FineReader PDF customer reviews Showing reviews 1-25 of 434 (page 1). ### Abby review by a teacher - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Inês C. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Education Management - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2024 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Overall I have a very positive exeperience. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros I like how it is really intuitive and easy to use. #### Cons Sometimes the files don't open imediately. --- ### ABBYY FineReader Review - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Jesse E. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Automotive - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: October 2024 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Very pleased. It exceeded my expectations. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros What i like the most is how much detail you are able to manipulate with this software. #### Cons What i least liked was how difficult it was for me to learn my way around it. #### Reasons for switching to ABBYY FineReader PDF I made the switch a few days ago and am happy i did. --- ### Review of ABBYY FindeReaer PDF - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Anne G. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Translation and Localization - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: May 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Pretty good. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Accurate OCR result and the language selection. #### Cons Sometimes due to the poor PDF quality, the text recognition capability becomes limited. --- ### Perfect software for people looking to replace Adobe Acrobat Pro - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Peter R. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: May 2024 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I made it about 4 days into the trial before I purchased the full license. I have removed most of the Adobe products I used to use from my workflow, and yet I always had to keep an Adobe Acrobat Pro subscription to cover my PDF needs. This was a huge find for me as it can duplicate all that I needed from the Adobe products, and more, for a far more reasonable price. I have already recommended this software to my team as something we will cover to eliminate their needs for other products. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros The suite of features is far more expansive than my other PDF related products. The document management, document conversion, digital signatures, and the giant array of supported file types made this an easy choice for me. Especially when I started using it and realized that the UI was intuitive and top notch! #### Cons There is not a lot I dislike about it. I think the only part that was a little difficult was getting the digital signature process set up how I wanted it to be in my workflow. It was the only area in the application that I really had to do some looking up to see how to get the most out of it. #### Reasons for switching to ABBYY FineReader PDF I don't use Adobe products much anymore, so I wanted to get something less expensive than Adobe Acrobat Pro, but that could fit my workflows and document needs. ABBYY FineReader checked all the boxes and saved me money. --- ### A very good Solution that could be The Best - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: December 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. 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. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### 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. #### Reasons for switching to ABBYY FineReader PDF Pricing and features (Adobe is not able to multiple make OCR recognitions in different languages at the same time). --- ### Good quality OCR - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Tania C. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Translation and Localization - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: December 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. 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. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### 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. #### Reasons for switching to ABBYY FineReader PDF Better quality of OCR produce than Adobe Acrobat and 10x better price. I have been using Adobe Acrobat for two years and I couldn't buy/use ABBYY because I had an old computer which did not support it. As soon as I bought a new one, I proceeded to make the switch, to my great satisfaction. --- ### Best of the Best - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Electrical/ Electronic Manufacturing - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: May 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. 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. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Just how easy it is to convert PDF files to Excel. #### Cons We didn't have any issues. Everything was there what we normally need it. #### Reasons for choosing ABBYY FineReader PDF The reason is sometimes when converting from PDF to Excel, there are some files that have errors and after the converting it just doesn't look good and was missing a lot of good information. I remember I spend a whole day looking for the best PDF Converter. I tried about 10 different Free Trials and tested them on the PDF that I knew it had errors and wanted to see which one will do the best job to converted. So the winner was Abby vs the others. Extremely Happy with end results and is a big Help using it. #### Reasons for switching to ABBYY FineReader PDF Just to convert a file from PDF to Excel it will put you in a waiting time and it was just time consuming and time is what we do not have. --- ### ABBYY FineReader PDF - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Akshila E. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Consumer Goods - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: November 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Overall this is really good to use and recommend to use. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### 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. #### Reasons for switching to ABBYY FineReader PDF need to improve application features and interface. --- ### Great Product/Value - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Eddie B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Education Management - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: December 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Works very well to convert image files to searchable pdf #### Cons I have zero complaints at this point in time #### Reasons for switching to ABBYY FineReader PDF I lost the subscription and the out of pocket cost was prohibative --- ### Abbyy, change your habits ! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Fanny B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Consumer Services - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2025 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Abbyy is very easy to use, I can convert my file and I save a lot of time. I use abbyy everyday for 3 years. It changed my life. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I love the flexibility and the ergonomics #### Cons Nothing, very useful. The best quality price software. --- ### Review from Paul Chávez - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Paul C. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Civil Engineering - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: May 2024 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. It helped me a lot in converting my scanned documents into searchable PDF files and extracting tables and text with a high degree of confidence. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros its accuracy in recognizing characters and formatting the output almost exact to the input file. #### Cons That it does not have very sophisticated image preprocessing, for example in the detection and elimination of signatures and seals, which in some cases makes pages saturated with them unrecognizable by ABBY FineReader. #### Reasons for choosing ABBYY FineReader PDF The cost of ABBY FineReader was minor than the alternative and it has good recognition accuracy as well. #### Reasons for switching to ABBYY FineReader PDF The accuracy of ABBY FineReader was superior --- ### ABBYY FineReader PDF - Top Tier PDF Software - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Dominick G. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Marketing and Advertising - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: March 2025 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I started using ABBYY FineReader PDF because I needed help converting a file, but since then I've also used it for editing text on PDFs! #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros ABBYY FineRead PDF is very easy and intuitive to use. It's a great way to read and edit PDFs as well as convert files! #### Cons No complaints, ABBYY FineRead PDF does a great job! --- ### The best program for scanning books and documents on sheets, generating and editing PDF files - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Mihail N. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer & Network Security - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2025 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. The program for scanning books into PDF is very good. It makes PDF one to one. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros The best program for scanning books and documents on sheets, generating and editing PDF files #### Cons I haven't come across a better program for scanning to PDF. I can't find any in the program. --- ### Best PDF Editor in the market - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Ije H. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Accounting - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: May 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Excellent! I'm a satisfied customer, and the customer service people have always attended to me promptly #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros 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. #### Cons So far so good, BUT add new functionalities, like (1) audio capabilities, (2) converting pdf to Publisher, (3) Improving ebook conversion #### Reasons for switching to ABBYY FineReader PDF 1. wanted something that can convert picture/scan to ebook 2. needed something to clean out unwanted text from documents or pictures 3. needed a heavy-duty software, not just in name but in performance 4. the price is right for me, subscription is not right for me --- ### Review for Otis at PSU - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Otis S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: E-Learning - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2024 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Its use is great but I don't understand why it doesn't stay current after I had it paid for this year. Not really happy about this. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 2/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros I like the image copy and paste as the images are significantly better than Adobe Acrobat Pro, I like the conversion to a different format. I like the OCR repair of scanned pdf very much also. #### Cons Getting it re-upped. I have paid for the fee and have a receipt but still it isn't done. I now have a diminished service that is of no help to me. I and the University have contacted ABBYY via email and message form. --- ### Extremely valuable tool in fostering automation for my small-sized accounting firm - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Pattar and Co. C. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Accounting - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: October 2018 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered For anyone in the finance industry, it is now simply understood that numbers are no longer "crunched" by overworked accountants battling customer-driven deadlines. That is all gone by way of automation. The only hang-up to a seamless input into automation is the fact that much of it still is stored as paper, believe it or not. My firm in particular made a push to start digitizing all of our records and in this process, I learned much about OCR technology. There are hundreds of products that say they can OCR, but the fact that ABBYY can process a HUGE variety of documents, fonts, etc. , this saves a lot of time correcting the output and actually getting searchable documents onto file storage. I just hope that this product continues to develop and remains at its reasonable price point. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros It literally helped my firm save HUNDREDS of man-hours of data entry by running all of our scanned documents through ABBYY and relying heavily upon its OCR to produce a variety of formats which we were able to quickly cross verify and enter into the accounting software. In short, the quality and intelligence of their OCR engine is tremendously accurate and fast! #### Cons The licensing stuff is a little TOO strict and often the remote licensing procedure has to be manually restarted within WIndows Services. We eventually bought more licenses after realizing that ABBYY will be a critical component in my firm's efforts to digitize all of our records and hard copies onto our cloud-hosted server. However, for a very small business that may not warrant another license purchase, they will quickly find out that ABBYY is quick to detect multiple sessions of the same serial code and will block both out. A little excessive, but I can understand their strict use and protection of this fine product. --- ### Great tool! - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Roberto H. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Professional Training & Coaching - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: June 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. It´s the best pdf editing tool I know so far and I tried a lot different tools, when I worked as an administrator. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### 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. #### Reasons for choosing ABBYY FineReader PDF see my review #### Reasons for switching to ABBYY FineReader PDF Not satisfied --- ### Highs and lows - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Charles A. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Law Practice - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: May 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I have two programs that index my entire hard disk, so it is key to have recognized text in all my saved files. I've tried all the other OCR-capable programs, and this is the best. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Customer support: 2/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros It does a great deal, and has super OCR. And the printer function allows you to add printed output to another pdf file, either at the beginning or end of the recipient file. #### Cons I have to reinstall it many times per week, often after the computer is put to sleep. Also, the print to pdf accessory seems usually -- but not always -- to print without keeping the text layer, so it has to be recognized again. #### Reasons for switching to ABBYY FineReader PDF Better OCR, no annual charge. --- ### Best OCR and PDF processing tool I've found - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Rafael O. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I scan old books (XIX century), old magazines, and old PDFs and generate Facsimile PDF with OCR and MRC compression for muy own usage and if the originals are out of rights, put in archive.org or similar places. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros It works flawlessly from scanned images or old PDF, MRC compression is impressive and OCR functionality is the best I've found. #### Cons Each operation done "beeps" (and cannot be disabled), sometimes it is a little bit stubborn when processing an image (you undo it, and next time I see the image, has gone to previous wrong status), but all of those things happens so little that does not affect to the reliability of the software. --- ### Fantastic PDF files reader and editor software. - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Netram M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Financial Services - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Overall I am happy with this PDF reader application, User interface is really simple and straightforward in terms of features. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### 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. #### Reasons for switching to ABBYY FineReader PDF Due to cost of application. --- ### The best for PDF editor - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Halimatun Z. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Accounting - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: October 2021 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros ABBYY FineReader PDF has saves me countless hours of time of data entry. I can simply scanned the physical document and change the form to digital and running the OCR tools to make the text on the document editable. The OCR tools is the best i have tried and it can read the text perfectly even when the text is disoriented. #### Cons Some of the font can't be read by the software, especially for an Arabic font. It is also happen with a custom font and the software won't work well with this type of text. Other think that i hope they can improve is the licensing. The license is install on the computer, and it is not easy to transfer the license to other computer. --- ### a Finreader User since Version 12 - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Luis A. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Retail - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: June 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Very easy to useIntuitiveSupport are very helpful and friendlyWide range of featuresEach version is better than the last #### Cons I don't like the subscription model and was sad to see it implemented. --- ### Great tool, well worth the expense - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Jamie H. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Translation and Localization - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: November 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I would recommend ABBYY to anyone and I plan to always keep my license active. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I use ABBYY on a daily basis to perform OCR, edit PDFs, combine PDFs, etc. I don't think I could function without it! The OCR works pretty well and helps me estimate word counts on all my documents, and combining PDFs has become essential as well. #### Cons I was hesitant to spend the money upfront at first, but I can see now that it was completely worth it. #### Reasons for switching to ABBYY FineReader PDF Some colleagues were using ABBYY and recommended it for text editing in PDF. I like the option to erase parts of the PDF and add text over it, which Adobe did not have an easy function for. #### Vendor response Thank you for sharing your feedback and for the great review. We are happy to hear about your positive experience. Subscribe to our blog for tips, trends, and use cases to boost your document productivity even more! https://pdf.abbyy.com/blog/ Replied November 2021 --- ### Scan, OCR, Edit! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Alvaro M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Utilities - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2018 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Powerful OCR software for both PC and Mac! Works offline, and can do the job in batches hassle-free. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I've been using Abbyy Finereader for about a decade now (since I stumbled upon it with a friend who digitized a lot of his readings). Abbyy is a powerful OCR software! I say powerful, because it captures nearly everything you throw at it, JPG, PDF... and if you're lucky, even handwritten notes are captures (often as image, but sometimes as text too!). It allows to import directly to Microsoft word for text editing. It even mimics the original scanned document in terms of the page layout and text sizes. Very useful for digitizing your existing documents (which you do not have a digital copy of). Heck, you can even scan and OCR an entire book! (copyrights apply, of course). Another good thing for me.... I can use if offline! Modern OCR apps require you to go online (which I cannot always be given the nature of my work and travels). #### Cons Now there are many other alternatives to using ABBYY as an OCR software, and most come as a free service (e.g., Google, Dropbox). It is even made easier now due to the proliferation of mobile phones. Scan a document via mobile phone, then use the online services for OCR, all for free now. --- ### A must app for any professional - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Juan P. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Alternative Dispute Resolution - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I really love the app. It is my favorite productivity app hands down. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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. ## More reviews [Next reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/ocr/abbyy-finereader-profile/reviews/?page=2) --- ABBYY FineReader PDF Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice