ABBYY FineReader PDF

ABBYY FineReader PDF OCR accurately converts paper and image documents into editable formats including Microsoft Office and searchable PDF – enabling you to reuse their content, archive them more efficiently, and retrieve them more quickly.

Convert, edit, share, and collaborate on PDFs and scans in the digital workplace. Try for FREE!



FineReader eliminates the need to retype documents and ensures that important information is readily available. It instantly provides access to the entire document of any size and supports 190 languages in any combination.

• Create, edit, and organize PDFs
• Create fillable PDF forms
• Collaborate on and approve PDFs
• Compare documents in different formats
• Protect and sign PDFs
• Digitize paper documents and scans with OCR
• Automate digitization and conversion routines
• Flexible licensing: per seat, concurrent, remote

FineReader PDF is an all-in-one OCR and PDF software application for increasing business productivity when working with documents.

It provides powerful, yet easy-to-use tools to access and modify information locked in paper-based documents and PDFs.



Features and Highlights

Convert PDFs and scans
World-leading OCR technology to accurately convert paper documents, scans, and PDFs to Word, Excel®, searchable PDF, and other formats.

Edit and comment PDF
Edit any PDFs including scans, create PDF from multiple files, comment and annotate, search in, protect, and prepare for sharing, fill in forms, and more.

Compare documents
Quickly identify text changes between different versions of the same document – whether a scan, PDF, Word document, or presentation.

Automate conversion
Streamline document conversion using the Hot Folder tool to schedule batch processing and track documents for conversion with “watched” folders.

Input Formats
PDF, TIFF, JPEG, JBIG2, PNG, BMP, GIF, DjVu, DOC(X), XLS(X), PPT(X), VSD(X), HTML, RTF, TXT and more.

Saving Formats
DOC(X), XLS(X), PDF, RTF, TXT, CSV, ODT, EPUB, FB2, DjVu, PPTX, HTML, TIFF, JPEG, PNG and more.

Recognition Languages
192 languages, including formal and artificial languages, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, and others.

New Features and Improvements - Version 2024

• Select multiple pages with a frame in Organize Pages
• Detect and delete blank pages
• Get better access to content in PDFs with incorrect text encoding
• Edit PDFs in Thai language more easily and more effectively
• Control background processes performance
• Control image preprocessing settings with more flexibility
• Assign styles “Heading” role for automatic creation of bookmarks when converting to PDFs
• Convert and compare PDFs more easily
• Delete blank pages when converting documents
• New tabbed user interface
• New "Organize Pages" tool for PDF documents
• Native x64 application
• Improved OCR core of the latest generation
• Simplified license management and improved deployment for organizations, including deployment in Microsoft Azure
• Creation of searchable PDFs from vector SVG format
• Improved image preprocessing
• Blank pages detection in PDFs and scanned documents

FAQ

What product category does FineReader PDF (for Windows) belong to?
FineReader PDF (for Windows) falls under the document productivity category, designed to enhance employee productivity. It caters to individuals, small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), and enterprises by providing both PDF and OCR software solutions.

Does the new FineReader PDF (for Windows) support the same set of features as Acrobat?
FineReader PDF, as an on-premise software, provides all essential features similar to Adobe Acrobat but at a more budget-friendly price.

Is FineReader PDF also available for Mac?
Yes, FineReader PDF is available for Mac®. The Mac version includes the same OCR capabilities but comes with a more limited set of PDF features compared to the Windows version.

Pricing

ABBYY FineReader PDF Individual - 99€ / year

• Test full functionality of Corporate edition
• 1 license
• Standalone
• 7-day free trial
• 100 pages for conversion
• Edit, protect, and collaborate on PDFs
• Create and convert PDFs
• Digitize paper documents and scans with OCR

ABBYY FineReader PDF Corporate - 165€ / year

• Edit, protect and collaborate on PDFs
• Create and convert PDFs
• Digitize paper documents and scans with OCR
• Optimize digitization and conversion routines
• 5,000 pages/month, 2 cores
• Compare documents in different formats

Alternatives

• Adobe Acrobat Pro
  
• WonderShare PDFelement
• Tungsten Power PDF Standard
• Soda PDF
• pdfFiller
• iTop PDF
• HiPDF
• UPDF
• Foxit PDF Editor

PROS

• Accurate OCR and Text Recognition
• Comprehensive PDF Editing Tools
• Multi-language Support
• Efficient Document Conversion
• Intuitive and User-Friendly Interface

CONS

• Resource-Intensive on Low-End Systems
• Limited Advanced Annotation Features
• Occasional Slow Performance with Large Files

Note: 7 days trial version. Processing of up to 100 pages. You can only save 3 pages at a time.

Also Available: Download ABBYY FineReader for Mac