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Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Overview ### Who Uses ABBYY FineReader PDF? For small and medium-sized businesses, big companies, and public and educational institutions, FineReader PDF provides a comprehensive and cost-effective PDF solution. ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.7/5** | 428 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 4.5/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 4.4/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.4/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.5/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 90% | (9/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: ABBYY Software House - **Location**: Nicosia, US - **Founded**: 1989 ## Commercial Context - **Starting Price**: US$16,00 - **Pricing model**: Flat Rate (Free Trial) - **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1 000, 1 001–5 000, 5 001–10 000, 10 000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Mac (Desktop), Windows (Desktop), Windows (On-Premise), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile) - **Supported Languages**: Croatian, Czech, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, Ukrainian - **Available Countries**: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belgium, Belize and 206 more ## Features - Access Controls/Permissions - Annotations - Archiving & Retention - Collaboration Tools - Commenting/Notes - Convert to PDF - Digital Signature - Document Capture - Document Storage - Electronic Signature - Encryption - File Conversion - File Sharing - Forms Management - Full Text Search - Merge/Append Files - Optical Character Recognition - Text Editing - Watermarking ## Integrations (4 total) - Microsoft Excel - Microsoft Outlook - Microsoft PowerPoint - Microsoft Word ## Support Options - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base - Chat ## Category - [PDF Editor Software](https://www.capterra.co.za/directory/32779/pdf-editor/software) ## Related Categories - [Document Management Software](https://www.capterra.co.za/directory/30063/document-management/software) - [PDF Software](https://www.capterra.co.za/directory/31122/pdf/software) - [OCR Software](https://www.capterra.co.za/directory/31459/ocr/software) - [PDF Editor Software](https://www.capterra.co.za/directory/32779/pdf-editor/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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It exceeded my expectations. ----- ### "Books to electronic text." — 5.0/5 > **Matthew** | *25 April 2026* | Education Management | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **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. > > Excellent product. Very helpful for someone working in education or research but modern phones have similar functionality built in now. ----- ### "Faryt's review" — 3.0/5 > **Faryt** | *22 May 2024* | Airlines/Aviation | Recommendation rating: 5.0/10 > > **Pros**: Ability to edit PDF docs without too much training. > > **Cons**: Not flexible with too. That would make editing very enhanced.ls like Find and Replace > > Overall has been a good experience and has allowed us to modify docs with some difficuties. ----- ### "ABBYY FineReader PDF - Everything you need and beyond" — 5.0/5 > **Philip** | *22 May 2024* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **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. > > 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. ----- ### "Perfect software for people looking to replace Adobe Acrobat Pro" — 5.0/5 > **Peter** | *22 May 2024* | Computer Software | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **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. > > 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. ----- Page: 1 / 18\ Next: [Next page](https://www.capterra.co.za/software/65868/abbyy-finereader?page=2) ## Links - [View on Capterra](https://www.capterra.co.za/software/65868/abbyy-finereader) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | de | | | de-AT | | | de-CH | | | en | | | en-AE | | | en-AU | | | en-CA | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-IL | | | en-IN | | | en-NZ | | | en-SG | | | en-ZA | | | es | | | es-AR | | | es-CL | | | es-CO | | | es-CR | | | es-DO | | | es-EC | | | es-MX | | | es-PA | | | es-PE | | | fr | | | fr-BE | | | fr-CA | | | fr-LU | | | it | | | ja | | | ko | | | nl | | | nl-BE | | | pl | | | pt | | | pt-PT | | | sv | | | tr | | ----- ## Structured Data