ABBYY FineReader PDF

Avantages

I like how it is really intuitive and easy to use.

Inconvénients

Sometimes the files don't open imediately.

Avantages

ABBYY is incredibly fine-tuned to OCR and I trust it more than other OCR programs.

Inconvénients

ABBYY is not intuitive and others who do no use the program regularly find it difficult to navigate.

Avantages

Gives qite precise results in recognition

Inconvénients

Sometimes it recognizes falsely, above all when text is calligraphic or tilted

Avantages

I have to convert a lot of PDF accounting statements into tables and ABBYY FineReader helps me do this quickly and in batches.

Inconvénients

It's not very good at reading lines as divisions of the paper

Avantages

OCR recognition and conversion to Word and Excel

Inconvénients

Overall is a very good product, so I don't have negative issues to point.

Avantages

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.

Inconvénients

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.

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Avantages

its accuracy in recognizing characters and formatting the output almost exact to the input file.

Inconvénients

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.

Avantages

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

Inconvénients

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.

Avantages

The ability to calibrate the OCR and optimize the results by changing some of the algorithm attributes

Inconvénients

it missing some crucial features such as of reading order settings in the OCR editor (RTL Vs LTR)

Avantages

Ease and consistency of use.
Quality of the OCR

Inconvénients

Uncomfortable use of the drop-down switch with the seal and signature library

Avantages

This is one of the most cost effective and easy to use products on the market. It is exceptionally user friendly.

Inconvénients

I wanted to convert 2 word docs to PDF files and it did that but put them together.

Avantages

As an Translaiton Office, Abbyy from morning until evening, it is an indispenzable need for running our business.

Inconvénients

Georgian OCR is missing, not available.

Avantages

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

Inconvénients

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.

Avantages

Easy to use no need to provide special training to users

Inconvénients

slow conversion on high resolution images

Avantages

It is great for editing PDFs and converting the images to documents

Inconvénients

I wish that some of the features were easier to use

Avantages

The better OCR-functionality then competitors.

Inconvénients

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.

Avantages

The MAIN reason I use ABBY Finereader is to convert multi-page pdf invoices to Excell so that they can be dissected and analyzed. I have tried all other pdf to Excel converters and they all botch them up completely with misaligned rows and columns, making the task more excruciating. ABBY is the ONLY app available that can quickly adjust rows and columns to an exact OCR match. Invaluable!

Inconvénients

Learning curve to use all the features can be a bit tedious but not overwhelming.

Avantages

Software is easy to use and the pdf conversion and image recognition is pretty great. I compared it versus a few python algorithms and ABBYY performed better and with the advantage of creating a searchable file.

Inconvénients

The Mac functionality is pretty basic. It would need to have more features. Conversion from pdf to txt is good, but it could be better: some documents that used special symbols weren’t properly converted for example. This is important when using the software with documents in languages other than English.

Avantages

What i like the most is how much detail you are able to manipulate with this software.

Inconvénients

What i least liked was how difficult it was for me to learn my way around it.

Avantages

It saves me so much time from having to type out information -I just copy and paste!

Inconvénients

the only con - which would happen with any product -is just learinig to use it!

Avantages

Flexible templates for reading data from similar documents.

Inconvénients

Inability to draw a table with columns and than analysis the table without losing the columns.

Avantages

Muy importante en mi trabajo, es sencillo y facil de usar

Inconvénients

El mejor para resolver problemas relacionados con documentos

Avantages

El poder trasladar textos de un formato a otro de manera rápida y específica.

Inconvénients

Al principio puede llega a ser dificil de utilizar

Avantages

The variaty of language one can use when using different litteratures and when scanning and converting documents as well as editing.

Inconvénients

nothing really. It is a simple and efficient.

Avantages

The best program for scanning books and documents on sheets, generating and editing PDF files

Inconvénients

I haven't come across a better program for scanning to PDF. I can't find any in the program.

Avantages

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.

Inconvénients

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.

Avantages

reasonable price than Adobe PDF, it was a compromis solution.

Inconvénients

I miss really OCN Quality for Japanese and Comment function and "Prooing tools " like text adding, delete tools in PDF like Adobe.

Avantages

ABBYY FineReader PDF makes the best OCR when I have a project with many pages. The cropping function is also good.

Inconvénients

I still use version 15 which simply is better. Better OCR, better ropping, etc.

Avantages

I love how easily it converted a script into a special software I use called Final Draft.

Inconvénients

The initial learning curve was not intuitive to me.

Avantages

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.

Inconvénients

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.

Avantages

Abbyy is a great pdf reader and editor. I am.very happy with this aplication

Inconvénients

Editing pdf with Abbyy is brolliant..even for languages from right to left

Avantages

ABBYY is a good product at a good price that can be offered to customers. Interest in it is increasing.

Inconvénients

I've heard this in conversations from IT administrators. Consumers in organizations do not use the product because it is difficult for them.

Avantages

La edición de texto y la inserción de la firma digital.

Inconvénients

No es fácil usar todas sus funciones y características.

Avantages

Easy, secure, speed, hard, regulary don't have problems

Inconvénients

It is an excellent product, it seems a little expensive to me but it is good, there is also a lot of complication to restore your program, it should be easier for the customer to recover their product

Avantages

OCR, PDF, tools for editing and creating.

Inconvénients

There's no dark mode, I still miss this feature.

Avantages

Its OCR is easy to use and powerful. File can be previewed before finalizing.

Inconvénients

We cannot edit the file in Mac in a single subscription

Avantages

Does better than Adobe in ocr-ing messy archival documents for historical research. Still not perfect, though. Don't expect very great accuracy.

Inconvénients

There's no way to correct ocr mistakes like you can in Adobe acrobat.

Avantages

I was quite OK with previous versions of ABBYY FineReader - been using it for about 10 years.

Inconvénients

However, ABBYY FineReader 16 on a Win 10 machine is saving scanned PDF docs with pages of different sizes. I did not find any solution in ABBYY knowledge base, and was not able to submit a service ticket since the SUBMIT button just did not respond without any hints. A typical case of product degradation :((

Avantages

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

Inconvénients

The fact that its "inverting color option" is not available on Macos bothers me quite a lot. That's why I had to return to other applicatons.

Avantages

- The best OCR I have encountered so far
- Innovative "Document compare" feature
- User-friendly OCR editor for manual corrections
- Multiple format export options

Inconvénients

- No full-text indexing for fast searches
- Removing the "Low-confidence character highlight" in the exported documents is impractical and cumbersome

Avantages

ABBYY is simply the best OCR software that I have tried, overall. The broad range of languages and the ability to straighten up crooked lines is very amazing. I have put some very poor quality page images through and ABBYY did excellent work of making something out of them. No miracles, of course, but very good.

Inconvénients

A few times I have had the software lock up while doing a big OCR job (like an 800-page book). Also, I do not like having to do subscription service; I prefer buying the software outright because I am not a high volume user.

Avantages

Easy and magic instrument to convert . jpeg and .pdf to text. Support many languages. Variable function. Easy understanding interface of program

Inconvénients

Transform little piace of text to group inside area

Avantages

Ease of use, Accuracy, and export options

Inconvénients

Licensing model for reinstalls is annoying

Avantages

Under friendly program with good design.

Inconvénients

Sometimes the OCR editor takes over and the process is slowed down.

Avantages

I love the easiness of converting historical text into OCR, searchable text. I use it for various languages: English, Old Russian, Modern Russian, Turkish and Arabic.

Inconvénients

Once the document has been OCR converted, it's hard to save it in my documents folder.

Avantages

The ability to edit PDFs. The OCR is good also.

Inconvénients

The price. I would rather purchase the software, not paying a subscription.

Avantages

A pdf editing program that excels at OCR scans

Inconvénients

can be hard to get used to, but it does everything you want it to do

Avantages

ABBYY FineReader PDF has the best and most accurate OCR tool in the world. The ABBYY FineReader PDF OCR tool supports all languages, especially the most complicated ones like Arabic language. Also, the OCR gives high quality and accurate results and can be converted to Excel, Word, and text.

Inconvénients

ABBYY FineReader PDF is not the best PDF editor or viewer, the text editing is somehow more complicated than other PDF editor applications. I wish they could upgrade and enhance PDF editing features to become the most integrated PDF software.

Avantages

Product is good.

Purchase and set up a complete nightmare. Getting the serial number to activate required legal threats.

Was sold with a free mobile version which
Eventually i got a link for but would not install.

I only got help when i raised a complaint with paypal.

Inconvénients

Setup and administration.

Their payment and processing system seems to be completely independant of issuing license numbers

Avantages

Ease of use, fairly accurate and for the cost, a good application.

Inconvénients

Not always accurate. Sometimes it refuses to provide correct answers even after sharpening.