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[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: 451 ### 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: 340 reviews (75%) - 4 stars: 86 reviews (19%) - 3 stars: 17 reviews (4%) - 2 stars: 6 reviews (1%) - 1 star: 2 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 451 (page 1). ### ABBYY works for me - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Geoffrey D. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Printing - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2026 - 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. Now that I know the limitations of ABBYY I am very happy for what it can do and I use to frequently. About once a week. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros I use Abbyy for scanning pages. It is very useful in doing that into Word. I also use ABBYY to scan tables into Excel. #### Cons I notice that when I try to scan to Excel it takes about two pages to be able to sort out what is required. The first two can have text in all sorts of places. Also I find that for continous scanning I have to 'finish scanning' to be able to allow for different page text sizes. --- ### PDF Editing - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: EItan G. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Program Development - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2026 - 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. Very Professional and UI/UX in very good. When we get big tenders, its easy to transform to word and add our notes. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Easy to edit PDF files, very close to the original. OCR is very good as well and support many languages. #### Cons I would work on faster initial loading. sometimes, doulble clicking on a PDF takes time to load. faster would be better. #### Reasons for switching to ABBYY FineReader PDF was not user friendly, UI was not business built --- ### 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. --- ### A reliable and time-saving PDF management tool - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: MYRTO A. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Libraries - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: August 2026 - 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. My overall experience with ABBYY FineReader PDF has been very positive. I use it mainly for work, especially for document scanning, PDF document management, document management, and data extraction. It helps me organize and work with scanned material more efficiently, search inside documents, extract text and information, and convert files into editable formats. It saves me considerable time, and I believe it offers good value for money because I use these features regularly in my work. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I especially like the PDF document management, document scanning, and data extraction features. The software makes it easy to convert scanned documents into searchable and editable text, extract the information I need, and manage large PDF files efficiently. These features save me a lot of time in my daily work. #### Cons Some advanced document management and editing features can take a little time to learn at first. Also, depending on the quality and complexity of a scanned document, some extracted text may occasionally need minor corrections. --- ### Modplan Review - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Robert H. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Construction - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2026 - 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. Overall its made my life easier in relation to placing orders and highlighting criteria on other documents and if some of the improvements listed above were carried out it would be near on perfect #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 2/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros It enables me to edit and highlight certain documents that require extra care given to specific parts that are picked by our shop floor staff. It enables me to extract information from various PDF files and generate one file which is specific to our business. It enables me to scan documents / orders to various suppliers with ease. All of which is available at a very reasonable yearly subscription. #### Cons Highlighting Documents can be quite "Clunky" and there's no way of deleting certain things. When an update is made it sometimes causes havoc with our scanners --- ### A good OCR product - recommended - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Harry C. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Writing and Editing - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2026 - 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 being using ABBYY FineReader for a number of years even though it is not a cheap product with an annual fee. Overall I like the product, and will continue to use it. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros The OCR capabilities are very good, supporting multiple languages in different alphabets. The ability to add custom dictionaries, such as for scientific names. The ability to make edit the image prior to processing. The ability to save a searchable PDF document. Customer support I have used a couple of times has been helpful. #### Cons Analysis of the image prior to OCR, sometimes needs manually correcting, even very similar pages can be interrupted differently. It would be nice to save options and personal dictionaries, so that they are not lost between re-installation or moving between computers. Annoying, when inputting multiple images, the order is reversed for first input, and correct for all subsequent inputs. --- ### Everything is fine - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Juraj V. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Building Materials - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2026 - 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: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Joining the documents - adding pages into the file #### Cons Nothing, --- ### Great tool - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Maria Antonietta S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Translation and Localization - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2026 - 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 a great programme I would most certainly recommend it to anyone who wishes to convert files to different formats. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros It's a great conversion tool and speeds up my translation process as well as producing formatted documents. #### Cons Can't fault the programme. Perhaps the OCR component could be improved so that the final product is more like the original. --- ### A very useful program for research and teaching - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Carlos T. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Research - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2026 - 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 really helps me with my research and with editing PDF files. I can search for citations or key terms not only within the document, but also using the search engine on my laptop. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I can convert an image into searchable text, which offers several advantages. One of them is the ability to identify keywords in a document or highlight key terms. #### Cons It isn't very compatible with the Mac operating system. The interface is a bit outdated. Also, the output quality of images converted to PDF could be better. --- ### The best PDF creation and OCR tool - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Rafael O. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Writing and Editing - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2026 - 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'm happy with the tool and fullfill my requirements. The MRC option is like magic. It generates very thin PDFs with an incredible image and text quality. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Easy of use: you drop a bunch of images, or right select from Explorer, and with two more click you have a very optimized PDF. #### Cons There is one weird option in automatic page resizing. Instead fo zoom in-out, it cuts/fill. Could be useful, but the zoom option should be there as well. --- ### 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. --- ### ABBYY FineReader PDF - Everything you need and beyond - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Philip S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more 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. I use ABBYY FineReader PDF in my daily work and the product has become my indispensable assistant. I have tried other similar software, but the experience of working with ABBYY is the most satisfying. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros ABBYY FineReader PDF turned out to be an incredibly accurate OCR, combined with the recognition of over 190 languages, an excellent way to work directly in PDF, but at a much lower cost. All this, combined with the incredibly good and fast support makes the product excellent for the needs of anyone who works with PDF files. #### Cons I can't point to anything I don't like. I use most of the functionalities and I am satisfied. The only thing that can cause a problem is the not always accurate conversion from PDF to Excel. #### Reasons for switching to ABBYY FineReader PDF The first reason I started using FineReader was the excellent OCR with Cyrillic texts. Then I discovered the other functionalities, the wide selection of languages, interfaces in Bulgarian, converting, comparing documents and others. --- ### 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 --- ### Books to electronic text. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Matthew L. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Education Management - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used monthly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2026 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Excellent product. Very helpful for someone working in education or research but modern phones have similar functionality built in now. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Used this mainly for its ability to convert scanned text from images to text on a computer. It helped me gather pages and pages of text and convert it for use in world processing. #### Cons Sometimes there are misreadings but this was often due to the quality of the file it was asked to scan. --- ### 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. --- ### Very useful tool for everyone who has to work with texts and convert files. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Chahine Y. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Translation and Localization - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used monthly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2024 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. The interface is very user-friendly; there are plenty of editing functions; and as a not very tech-savvy person, I should admit that I had no trouble finding out what each tool does and how to change settings. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros You can quickly and easily convert files into other formats without having to upload them somewhere online. I also like the fact that it allows you to edit PDF documents as they are, without the need for creating endless Word files, implementing changes and then converting them into new PDFs. #### 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. Same thing for texts written in two, three, etc. columns: sometimes it merges two columns together and the resulting text makes no sense. --- ### ABBY FineReader Review - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Okech V. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. ABBY Fine Reader PDF, is a market leader in its category, nothing matches it, it is a superb intuitive software that has makes PDF document conversion and manipulation to easy. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros ABBY FineReader is a fast, efficiency and gives you value for money. What stands out most about this app is the speed and accuracy at which it processes your documents. #### Cons ABBY FineReader PDF lacks full indexing for quicker file searches. I find the cooperate version a bit costly in terms of pricing. --- ### 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 --- ### ABBYY FineReader PDF: The must-have scanning and OCR software for increased productivity - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Sidiki K. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Services - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered 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. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros 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. #### Cons 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. --- ### ABBYY FineReader Version 15 creates compact .pdfs with OCR support for east Asian languages - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: William W. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Law Practice - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: May 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I have used ABBYY FineReader since 2008, through several versions. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I routinely use FineReader to re-tool documents sent by clients and other attorneys into compact, clear .pdfs with OCR. File sizes are typically one-tenth the size of the scanned file I received, and usually at least one-third the file size. FR can correct trapezoidal distortion and improve text qualities in other ways. The text editing tools work smartly and easily. I appreciate that FR will OCR files in Japanese, Chinese, and Korean and mixed with English. I can also easily create .pdfs from cell phone photos sent of documents, page by page. FR also converts .pdfs to Excel, Word, and PowerPoint formats. #### Cons I am very pleased with FR version 15, but it lacks the excellent bulk .pdf processing scripts that you can write in Adobe Acrobat; however, the FR .pdf files are typically more compact than the Acrobat files. I also liked version 12, but I was not pleased with the changes from version 12 to 14. I found verion 14 unreasonably difficult to use. #### Reasons for choosing ABBYY FineReader PDF I have used Adobe Acrobat simultaneously with ABBYY FineReader since 2008. I choose FR when I need certain types of image processing, but especially for the smaller file sizes. I also choose FR to OCR documents with text in east Asian languages. I primarily use Adobe Acrobat for bulk OCR of scanned documents, its text redaction tool, and when Acrobat supports another plug-in tool that I want to use. --- ### OCR for Arabic - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: William T. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Translation and Localization - Company size: Self-Employed - 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. Very satisfied. ABBYY is the standard for the translation industry. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros OCR of Arabic, a cursive language, is the gordian knot of OCR technology. ABBYY has consistently worked this issue over the past decade and is now the undisputed champion of the world (spoken with a [sensitive content hidden] accent). Their tech support is always ready to take on the challenge if I bring up something that could be improved.1 #### Cons While it is very effective, I believe if ABBYY allowed users to selectively train patterns, it would be much more efficient. As it stands now, training a pattern means going through many ligatures that are not problematic to get to the ligatures that truly need training. It would be better to go directly to these ligatures. #### Reasons for switching to ABBYY FineReader PDF Novoverus was better at ligatures (at the time), but did not recognize tables, underlined text, or colored text. Since this time 2012-14?), ABBYY has improved its ability to recognize ligatures so there is no reason to consider another provider. --- ### 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. --- ### OCR that works! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Josip L. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Retail - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros 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. #### Cons 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. --- ### So easy and cheep : you buy it once and don't need to waste an annual fee - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Nicolas M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Printing - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used weekly 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 use it when I need to edit a pdf, optimize the size of my pdf (keeping the quality and improving the OCR), delete add or organize the pages : it's my all-in-one tool for my pdf files. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Easy, fast, good quality of OCR, light pdf size : all what you need. #### Cons Sometimes difficult to update on Windows PC. But rather good anyway. #### Reasons for switching to ABBYY FineReader PDF For the price and the OCR options. #### 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 ## 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