FineReader PDF 15 Reviews & Product Details

FineReader PDF 15 provides the software platform you need for 95% of everything you need to do with any of your documents, your screen capture images and Portable Document Format documents. I love the ability to use this software on my laptop or desktop with the same level of performance. Capturing data for PDF resiliency is great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The fact that people don't think this software isn't good enough and they need to spend $500 or more for PDF creation and management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Seemingly smooth integration with my Xerox Scanner. Obvious button labeling and layout that makes finding actions intuitive. Low overall Memory footprint while using, which has been great when running multiple programs simultaneously. The conversion to various Office documents was also a very nice touch that I did not expect to have. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The interface, while clean, looks dated compared to Adobe's. As this is purely an aesthetic issue, I don't hold this too heavily against the software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The OCR accuracy is simply the best. I've tried them all. The OCR editor function is also very useful for correcting incorrect OCR on-the-fly, prior to exporting. Also, FineReader does a great job of recognizing tables and text boxes, and the exported Word or RTF files usually look great & faithful to the original PDF. It also does a fantastic job with documents containing more than one language, which was the biggest difference I saw between FineReader and other leading OCR software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I do wish that FineReader would learn from corrections I make with Japanese, which is the primary language I OCR using the product. I know this is possible with other languages. Most PDFs I OCR use the same font, text spacing, etc., which means that if I correct one erroneous OCR in one part of the document, it should help the OCR engine correctly recognize the same text string that appears elsewhere in the document. For documents that include many repetitions (which is the case with patent documents, which I specialize in), it will help tremendously. This is the most desired feature for me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Abbyy Finereader is very accurate in OCR and fast enough even on my old PC. I tried a number of alternatives because I was releuctant to pay the price of an Abbyy licence and I kept results for different software and compared them all. There was a method using command-line that was quite accurate, but it was nowhere near as easy as using Abbyy. I decided my time is valuable and bought an Abbyy licence. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As the name suggests it is geared to PDF and assumes the end result will be PDF whereas I also wanted text to use in a markup workflow. But it was easy enough to get that out of Abbyy after setting a few preferences. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The OCR software guides you through the document so you can accept or change characters that it is not certain about. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The UI is a bit crowded and overwhelming at first but is not too hard to get used to. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like how it can rake any page and covert it to useable text. It makes turning print pages into Braille managable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

A few things get lost in the OCR. Not many Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It was bundled with a Xerox document scanner. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Settings are minimal. Users cannot define a default file folder on a local or network drive or a cloud.

A new instance of ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 is opened for each side of a 1 page document. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Currently I manage a team that must convert documents and in addition to that generate reports of this, thanks to Abbyy this work is simpler and extremely fast and complete at all times. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Thanks to abbyy I can convert my files with the scanner, it is a non-portable program with which you scan a document and you already have its edition available, with many of the tools offered by office and even more accessories. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ability to edit PDF's easily and the multiple options to reduce file size by page, size, bookmarks, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Doesn't have tabs for multiple open PDF's (each PDF document is open in it's own independent window). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Excellent conversion quality from PDF to Word.

Super quality OCR conversion (from image to text).

Ability to work in network mode (specific licence required).

OCR for extra-European languages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Solutions and support for non-European languages and the complex handling of multilingual files should be further developed.

Editing on certain types of PDF files still needs to be improved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ability to accurately extract table data from PDFs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Windows version required for full features Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We purchased ABBYY for our office for a large project that invlovled creating a database of 1200 pages of Town Clerk records, using old hard copy ledgers. We scanned them all in and were able to create a great working file for the staff. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

For this project we needed the original text to be formatted in a spreadsheet and it was very helpful to be able to adjust the table lines in edit mode prior to copy and pasting into the final document. These adjustments are so simple to make using the tools provided as well. The ease of trasitioning from editing the table, back to the OCR funcitons allowed for higher productivity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

ABBYY FineReader is a godsend for our college's accessibility team, when converting PDFs to textreadable format. However, when verifying the conversion, there are some things that are SO annoying. Let's say there's a frequently mis-read word. It gives a list of words it could have been. Why not let the user type in the actual word and have the ability to apply that typed word to all instances? You can only apply to all if it's one of the words ABBYY proposes.

And for those commonly mis-read words because of serifs in the fonts...Can't it be programmed to guess those? Any of us users can predict them: "litde = little" "die = the"...the list goes on. So when those commonly mis-read combo of serif characters exists, can't the list of predicted words include those combos and their translations automatically?

Anyway, I still love the program. It could just be that much better... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Its accuracy and ability to verify the translation afterwards. I love that it's easy to use, that the customer support is friendly and helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Scanning PDF files to excel format. It has really made taking PDF files that have schedules on them and turning them into an excel format that can later be imported into my companies estimating program for pricing. Without it i would have to manually enter every file and that take forever. I have done it numerous times in the past and for a larger project it can take upwards of 2-3 days for complete input and detailing, i would say your program ABBYY has helped cut that time in, oh, probably half. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ease of use and accuracy of scan is what i like best. I also like the ability to merge and manipulate PDF files. It really helps with getting multiple files into one document. I believe it also helps with final proposals. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I use ABBYY to manage PDF versions of historic texts that I use for research Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Clean interface and easy to use tools, text recognition function Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

OCR worked very well on foreign language character recognition (German) with different typeface and page characteristics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I encountered no issues using the product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Using Hot Folders and OCR recongintion. We are using the Corp. Version to go paperless with our AP Invoices Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The support has been very helpful with identifying out needs and selecting the right options for our project. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It does a great job at OCR and I am able to easily change PDFs to text documents. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I do not dislike any part of it. It is amazing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

was able to scan in 1,000 pages of manuscripts straight into Word for editing. Marvelous! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Few to zero downsides to this program. They've done a great job. Industry standard for a reason. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have been using Finereader for some time. I hate Adobe products. they are clumsy and often bug-ridden. That said, what drew me to version 15 is that I have to edit articles for publication and many come in PDF form. These are major edits for publishing in digital and print magazines. That has always been clumsy with Adobe. The last improvement with ABBYY makes that sooo much more efficient with its expanded editing capabilities. That is the primary reason I updated and it turned out to be worthwhile.

the other reason I like this is because it is less expensive than Acrobat, for what i believe is a better product and licensing costs are important. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

its ability to do versatile editing on a large scale. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have projects that involve new editions of past products that were released some 30+ years ago. Fortunately, I am able to access scans to user guide documentation, etc. when there are no source files available that can be used. My project involves scanning a PDF, removing certain elements like header/footer and defining some sections as images, and then doing final clean up work within ABBYY prior to exporting as a Word document. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

OCR capabilities for defined sections of document and having the ability to ignore certain areas. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We have only held an ABBYY license for a couple of months, but I have already used ABBYY primarily for 3 tasks. 1. Comparison of construction subcontract to find changes within an updated subcontract version; 2. Reliable conversion of contracts to Word format; 3. Changes and comments to a PDF contract. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like its reliability and ease of seeing differences in documents. We have used and tested other software programs. ABBYY was by far the easiest to use and reliable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have worked for the Accessibility department of California State University, East Bay for almost two years and Abby made my work alot easier!! My main work was to make pdfs accessible for the students and Abby was the only software that helped me achieve it with utmost efficiency. There have been situations wherein students come with scanned pdfs where in they scan two pages into one page and later want it in an accessible format. Thanks to Abby we could help each of them in achieving the same. All the university's posters and brochures would undergo an accessibility check via our department and if something wasn't accessible we would make it accessible using Abby. So thank you for coming up with this brilliant tool! it not only helped us, but also helped alot of students in their academics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The best part of Abby that i liked was how it helps me mark the readable sections and helps us differentiate between an image and the reading section. it also helps us give an Alt text making our work even easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We use ABBYY to convert paper documents handed out by teachers into editable text that can be converted to a student's grade level, read by a computer reading program, or translated into AAC pathways. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

ABBYY has one of the best text recognition programs I've found, which makes my job quick and easy. I can even trust it enough to allow students to use it themselves with very minimal proofreading. A+ Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.