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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 - I especially like the PDF document management, document scanning, and data extraction features. - It does a pretty good job with OCR and data extraction; the only thing better is dedicated OCR software. - It saves me considerable time, and I believe it offers good value for money because I use these features regularly in my work. ### 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). ### Good Editing Tools - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Ashish S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 11-50 employees - 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. ABBYY FineReader PDF is a powerful and reliable tool for document conversion, text recognition (OCR), and PDF editing. It converts scanned papers into editable files with high accuracy and saves time on office tasks. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros ABBYY FineReader PDF is best liked for its high-accuracy OCR (optical character recognition) that converts scanned paper and images into searchable, editable text across 190+ languages, alongside its reliable layout retention and seamless PDF editing and conversion tools. #### Cons Least liked features of ABBYY FineReader PDF often include its high price for casual users, occasional errors when reading complex or multi-column layouts, and a heavy system resource load during large batch processing tasks. --- ### 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. --- ### Great value- I use it everyday - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Yehuda H. - Industry: Higher Education - Company size: 5001-10000 employees - 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. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I use the FineReader as my primary PDF viewer and editor. The FineReader is a great value for money. It does a pretty good job with OCR and data extraction; the only thing better is dedicated OCR software. The editing software works really, really well. #### Cons Scanning is decent, though somewhat slow. The erase function for editing sometimes takes on too much of the background and can sometimes may everything black. I would prefer that it would default to white. #### Reasons for switching to ABBYY FineReader PDF Price, price, price, price, price, price, price, price, price, --- ### 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. --- ### 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. --- ### Medical Use of ABBYY - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: oren f. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Medical Practice - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - 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. excellent software I use it every day. I use it in particular writing medical legal opinions when I need to scan large body of evidence extracted from medical electronic files #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros It is user-friendly, fast, and reliable, with equally clear support in both English and Hebrew, too. #### Cons So far, I haven't found any drawbacks in the software abbyy ; it has been easy to use and reliable to date --- ### Works Well - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Robert T. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Alternative Medicine - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used monthly 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 use this product to work with PDF documents mostly to rearrange, copy, update and add additional text. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Value for my money, works well. Does well with OCR, Works fast, I have used this product for many years. #### Cons Cost has been my only issue, but for the value and operation it is reasonable. It would be nice for one or two versions to have a free upgrade. --- ### Editable but really bad OCR. Not worth the money. - Overall rating: 1/5 - Reviewer: Marijana T. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Translation and Localization - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 6 months - 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: 3/5 - Value for money: 1/5 - Customer support: 2/5 - Functionality: 1/5 #### Pros I liked the fact that it made images scanned to PDFs editable, but unfortunately the text was all over the page that it required a LOT of time to make the document resemble the original. #### Cons However, the quality was so poor, it was basically useless. The formatting was off with random lines all over the page; the extracted letters were of various font types and sizes for the same word, not to mention the typos and lack of similarity to the original file. --- ### 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. --- ### Try The Best Full Feature PDF Editor - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Jack A. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Accounting - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for less 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 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 #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Once I familiarized myself with the interface, the program worked as needed. No need to keep referring back to Dr Google or support. #### Cons 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. #### Reasons for choosing ABBYY FineReader PDF Basically, the relationship ABBYY had with Fujitsu. #### Reasons for switching to ABBYY FineReader PDF I did not like where Adobe was taking the product. It started to get confusing as to where PDF's were stored/updated when I was not using their Cloud services. --- ### Essential for ANYTHING PDF, meaning FOR EVERYBODY - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Sean T. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Health, Wellness and Fitness - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: July 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: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros How powerful it is to convert to and from PDF seemlessly, preserving all important formatting. I can create a custom PDF from multiple file formats and send it out to clients very quickly, which is essential, as I am doing everything, besides seeing my clients as a psychotherapist. I create PDF documents that are personalized for each client and they think I have spent days creating it. It helps THEM get better. #### Cons It's a little clunky as a pdf reader. I wish there was a lite version that would open when I just want to quickly read a pdf. #### Reasons for choosing ABBYY FineReader PDF There was no comparison. ABBYY was better in EVERY respect. --- ### Easy to navigate - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Amanda Y. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Insurance - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 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. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros The main features my office utilizes is merging/organizing pages and editing content. ABBY makes both of these tasks quick and easy, even for less tech savvy employees. #### Cons Not a real con for the program, my office uses ABBY for basic functions, I am sure there are a lot of features offered that I cannot speak on. #### Reasons for switching to ABBYY FineReader PDF When I was going to renew my Adobe subscription the price increased, I found ABBY and thought it seemed like a comparable product at a better price. --- ### 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. --- ### 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. --- ### A program suite very suitable even for home office/tiny business - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Gerhard H. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Hospital & Health Care - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily 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. All together I'm well satisfied with this product, helping me in multilingual documentation! #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros The better OCR-functionality then competitors. #### Cons Of course the sense of ABBYY FineReader PDF is to create full access PDF documents with readable text. Maybe there COULD be a nice feature in adding additional pages to a scanned image with OR without previewing. --- ### Powerfull tool for document archiving, document conversion, OCR and digitalization. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Jelena U. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: May 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. 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. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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. --- ### The Perfect PDF editor - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Mustafa H. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Retail - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. 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. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros A wonderful work on pdf like: - Editing scanned documents - OCR and converting scanned documents to word or Excell - Consolidating files #### Cons 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. #### Reasons for switching to ABBYY FineReader PDF I fond Abbyy fine reader more efficient --- ### 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. ## 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