--- title: FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac Reviews meta_title: 'FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 294 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.5 review_count: 294 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-08-10' parent_category: name: Collaboration & Productivity url: https://www.g2.com/categories/collaboration-productivity --- # FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac Reviews **Vendor:** ABBYY **Category:** [Document Creation Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/document-creation) **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 294 ## About FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac FineReader is an all-in-one OCR and PDF software application designed to increase business productivity. It provides easy-to-use tools to access and modify information locked in paper-based documents and PDFs. ABBYY FineReader PDF 16 for Windows Digitize, retrieve, edit, protect, share, and collaborate on all kinds of documents in the same workflow. Edit digital and scanned PDFs with a newfound ease: correct whole sentences and paragraphs or even adjust the layout. Incorporate paper documents into a digital workplace with AI-based OCR technology to simplify daily work. ABBYY FineReader PDF for Mac® Manage your documents more easily and perform all document tasks quicker in digital workflows. Convert PDFs, document images and scans with unmatched accuracy Achieve new levels of productivity when converting documents with the latest OCR technology and view and reuse content from PDFs of any kind with ease. ABBYY FineReader PDF for iOS - The first smart AI-powered scanner that turns your mobile device into an all-purpose tool to quickly capture docs and books, create electronic copies in PDF and JPEG, and extract texts from scans for further editing and sharing. ## FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users appreciate the **user-friendly interface** of FineReader PDF, making document handling and conversion exceptionally easy. (13 reviews) - Users value the **easy document conversion** of FineReader PDF, enabling efficient and accurate transformations without technical skills. (11 reviews) - Users highlight the **easy conversion** features of FineReader PDF, making document management smooth and efficient. (11 reviews) - Users highlight the **remarkable accuracy** of FineReader PDF in extracting text from scanned documents and images. (10 reviews) - Users appreciate the **easy editing** capabilities of FineReader PDF, streamlining document management and enhancing productivity significantly. (9 reviews) - Features (9 reviews) - Users praise the **OCR accuracy** of FineReader PDF, enabling seamless conversion of scanned documents into editable files. (9 reviews) - Users highly value FineReader PDF for its **superior text recognition ability** and seamless document editing features. (9 reviews) - PDF Processing (7 reviews) - Data Extraction (6 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users note the **high pricing** of FineReader PDF, which may be challenging for small teams to afford. (4 reviews) - Users note a **steep learning curve** when starting with FineReader PDF, making it challenging for beginners to adapt. (4 reviews) - Users report **difficulty with OCR accuracy** and a steep learning curve, especially when switching between Windows and Mac. (3 reviews) - Users face significant **missing features** such as inconsistent shortcuts and limited automation, affecting overall efficiency and usability. (3 reviews) - Users report significant **OCR errors** , especially with unclear documents, affecting performance and ease of use on Mac. (3 reviews) - Users report that the **OCR performance** struggles with errors, especially on low-quality scans and Non-Latin characters. (3 reviews) - Cloud Limitations (2 reviews) - Compatibility Issues (2 reviews) - Difficult Navigation (2 reviews) - Users find **integration issues** with FineReader PDF, especially regarding collaboration and cloud functionality, frustrating and limiting. (2 reviews) ## FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac Reviews ### 1. Very friendly environment, with guidance. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Miloslav P. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 05, 2023 **What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** Change or overwrite texts in PDF, placement of signatures and images. Conversions to other applications, Word, Excel. Character set conversions. Orientation and placement of elements for program control. **What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** I can't answer that. I don't use all the features of the program. **What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?** So far, I haven't encountered any problems :) ### 2. Great app for OCR **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Roman B. | Principal / Riaditel, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 07, 2023 **What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** Funkcionality, it does what it promises to do **What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** Size and UI - app itself is huge and the UI sometimes lacks what i would expect from modern UI **What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?** It does OCR of my scaned documents ### 3. Good for extracting tables from PDFs. Expensive. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** David M. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 03, 2023 **What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** Works very well for converting tables in pdfs into excel/csv files even where the tables are stored as images in the original document. Unlike many solutions it retains the formatting. **What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** I liked it better when there was a fixed cost for owning it outright than this subscription model. Now I only subscribe during those months when I absolutely need it, using non-commercial alternatives otherwise. **What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?** Getting data tables out of published papers and reports. ### 4. An excellent tool for all pdf editing and OCR. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ali S. | Verified Volunteer Translator, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 03, 2023 **What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** Arabic OCR MERGING PDFs ORGANIZING PDF pages in no time **What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** There is no life time license for Windows. **What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?** Integrated solution for all my pdf editing and Arabic OCR in one place. ### 5. All-in-one tool for PDFs **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 09, 2023 **What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** The seamless integration of to my phone is the feature that makes me come back to FineReader again and again **What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** The pricing is costly for the services it provides as there are much cheaper alternatives out there **What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?** There are many pdf editors but none of them have the speed or ease of use like FineReader ### 6. I was expecting good OCR since FineReader has many languages to choose from **Rating:** 1.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Volker K. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 03, 2023 **What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** I'm not sure if there are any features which are superior to other products **What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** While there are many languages to choose from, OCR is horrible. The product incorrectly adds blanks to many characters so editing becomes a nightmare. **What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?** Since its OCR is no good, it is not solving any problems but creates a new problem. ### 7. Abbyy Fine Reader 15 **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Guy D. | Electronic Service Technician, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 18, 2022 **What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** I learned to use Abbyy FineReader by myself starting about 4 years ago. I went through a learning curve, and I keep learning. I started with a few small books and then a few 500 page books. I have now completed an 1800 page Latin / French Missal, with dual columns, tables, pictures, vertical texts, etc. I created my own user dictionary of almost 12000 words. All this on an old Intel Pentium CPU G860 @ 3.00GHz with 8M RAM!!! I have now started work on a 2000 page Spanish / Latin Missal, having imported the same user dictionary I had created. Thank you FineReader 14 & 15. **What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** While FineReader PDF did all I needed it to do, there are small things that I think may improve its efficiency, but then again I'm not a software developer. **Recommendations to others considering FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac:** This product did a great job for me in digitizing old books. **What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have digitized a few old books for charity that may not be available in the near future. ### 8. FineReader PDF Makes PDF OCR a Breeze **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Colby M. | Accessibly Specialist, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 23, 2022 **What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** I use FineReader PDF regularly to OCR full image documents that I come across when working with PDFs. The software is super easy to use and always comes through with great results. Would recommend it to anyone looking for great OCR software. **What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** The only dislike I have regarding the software is at times it is difficult to get the proper settings to ensure that the PDF doesn't lose quality with exporting **What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?** use FineReader PDF regularly to OCR full image documents that I come across when working with PDFs. The software always provides great results and being able to edit any errors that could occur is a great feature as well. ### 9. User friendly **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 23, 2022 **What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** This was easy to use, especially for a novice. Needed to combine and edit pdfs. One of the greatest features was the ability to convert a document into an OCR pdf. I found Adobe to be unclear for what I needed. This was very straight forward. **What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** I suspect there are many more detailed features in other programs. However, I only needed basic tools. An expert in pdf work might want greater flexibility than this offers. **What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?** This streamlined time for me because of its ease of use. Didn't have to spend a ton of time learning how to use it. I was able to begin my project right away. ### 10. The most accurate easy-to-use OCR recognition for Windows **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** John M. | Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 18, 2021 **What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** 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. **What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** 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. **What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was digitally archiving an amateur magazine that I created in the early 1980s which was done with a typewriter so the font was challenging. Also I have used Abbyy to edit PDFs which is a bonus feature. ### 11. Best PDF editing and book OCR in the market **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** oytun s. | Operations, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 12, 2021 **What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** Ability to determine and change the fields in the layout of a scanned page. Marking the pics and text independently. Editing without spoiling the layout. You can even translate within ABBYY on the existing layout and save as a PDF again in a new language. Ability to process scanned pages in a true-to-the-original layout with very high OCR accuracy. The way the projects are saved" You can find all the original scans and the work done in one folder. **What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** Could have a better hyphenation recognition for divided words in scanned books. It recognizes page numbers as the page numbers of scanned book pages most of the time but there are mistakes. If you mark it as a book, they all could have been handled as page numbers in a project for example, instead of you correcting them one by one in case of mistakes. **Recommendations to others considering FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac:** In my experience, if you are looking for high document editing capabilities in your OCR software and utmost control over the layout of your documents and PDFs, ABBYY Finereader seems like the best value for your money. **What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use it for scanning books; OCR and non-OCR scans of texts for creating PDFs; Editing PDFs. ### 12. A simple and powerful OCR! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vincenzo P. | Titolare, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 09, 2022 **What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** Simplicity of use, intuitiveness, efficiency **What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** There are no particular negative aspects; the only small flaw is the management of overlapping selection areas, but it is absolutely manageable. **Recommendations to others considering FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac:** FineReader does not have major difficulties in use, it is very intuitive. It can also be used by people not very accustomed to using software of this type. Additionally, it is very fast! **What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?** FineReader is a very clear and intuitive OCR, which allows me to transform PDFs into the format I desire with ease. I have also tried other OCRs, but this one has the best cost-benefit ratio! ### 13. FineReader PDF works better than expected **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Grafton K. | Flight Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 15, 2022 **What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** FineReader PDF scanned and OCRed large technical documents with tables and fine print. It was a great surprise to see it recommend using a higher resolution scan in some cases. The higher resolution worked well. I used the "reverse even pages" option and it automatically re-orded scanned pages properly. **What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** There should be an "undo reordering" feature and a "restore original order" feature when using the "reorder pages" command. It's very simple to mess up the order and then have to manually reorder the pages, or just give up and re-scan. It was not immediately obvious that you have to select a range of pages to use the "reorder pages" command. The option is grayed-out if only one page is selected. Perhaps it could be always active, but then say, "Select two or more pages to reorder" or confirm the pages to be reordered. **Recommendations to others considering FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac:** When scanning documents, try to use a paper feeder if possible. I was able to scan 20 pages at a time. Because FineReader PDF may prompt you to use a higher resolution for some pages, try scanning pages with small print or table data in small batches first. **What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have project documentation that is printed and stored in three-ring binders. It's vital to have searchable copies of the documents shared with members of the project and other stakeholders. **Official Response from Denis Komarov:** > Hello Grafton, Thank you for your valuable feedback! We have forwarded all the information to our Research and Development department. For the issue with "undo" feature, we currently have the following solution: after reordering pages you need to right-click on any page, and select Reorder pages, then select Undo last operation: https://www.dropbox.com/s/olnfe0552whhur4/img-2022-04-06-16-20-30.png?dl=0 If you have more questions or suggestions, please submit a request to support.abbyy.com ### 14. It works well with new languages not in the software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dennis W. | Self Employed, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 28, 2021 **What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** This software is incredible. I needed a way to scan documents from languages not in the FineReader database. This software provided the simple tools to select all characters in a new language. I work with native languages in the remote areas of Honduras and Nicaragua. There are no tools for scanning in Miskitu. There are many things printed, but the character set contains elements that are not in standard languages, such as Spanish. This software enables me to choose the language name and then select its character element base. When the software reads the scanned sheet it always picks up the correct elements and I have a copy in Word that can be edited. Thanks for a great tool. **What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** I have not found any problems with the tools and they really help simplify daliy activities. **Recommendations to others considering FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac:** This product works and solves problems **What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?** As noted the ability to create a new language group of elements makes this product a solution. ### 15. A trusted tool that doesn't get in the way **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 23, 2022 **What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** Takes print, soft (PDF) documents and returns them in the format I want. **What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** If I want to sort out formatted print (columns, tables, images) I have to work a little harder to get what I want. **What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using secretarial effort and time. I can process the documents myself. ### 16. Good product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vincenzo O. | Dirigente, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 15, 2022 **What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** I like the OCR and all functions included in this product. I appreciated the easier use and the immediate work with it. I can suggest acquiring it to work easily and speed. **What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** Nothing. Everything works and there are no improvements to be made **Recommendations to others considering FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac:** I recommend ABBYY for managing and editing PDFs. It is a very efficient and effective product. **What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?** I solved many problems related to the use of PDF transformed into WORD or Excel saving me a lot of time due to the recreating of documents in manageable digital format. ### 17. My experiences with the Abbyy FineReader **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Architecture & Planning | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 09, 2022 **What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** I have been using Adobe Acrobat Pro for editing since 2008. For the last used Adobe Acrobat XI, there were no more security updates, so I looked for an alternative when purchasing a new PC. Adobe Acrobat DC Pro was ruled out because Adobe only offers it as a subscription version. After comparing various programs for editing PDF documents, I decided on Abbyy Finereader. On the one hand, I can use Abbyy Finereader as a private user on 2 privately used PCs. Additionally, the Abbyy Finereader package also includes the "Abbyy Screenshot Reader" tool as a bonus. Before purchasing, I contacted Abbyy's support. I quickly received a response in German. The purchase through Abbyy's homepage was also straightforward. After downloading, it was relatively easy to install the program and set it up as the default PDF program under Windows 11. The settings and setup after the first start were simple and self-explanatory. I quickly found my way around the interface. This applies to both the start screen and the editor interface. After a short familiarization, I quickly found my way around. The OCR editor works relatively well. The documents converted so far largely retained their formatting. The texts themselves were also very well converted. For me, Abbyy Finereader operates at a similar level to Adobe Acrobat XI Pro. Scanning documents is also simple and reliable. I am thrilled with the stamp tool. Here, dynamic stamps can also be created, where you can automatically specify, for example, the date and time. I find the screenshot reader brilliant. This allows the marked areas to be copied and saved either as an image or as converted text. A real added value of the program. In the month that I have been using Abbyy Finereader, it has proven to be a worthy successor to Adobe Acrobat XI Pro. I can only recommend the purchase. **What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** So far, I haven't noticed anything that wouldn't be good. **Recommendations to others considering FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac:** I can recommend the purchase of Abbyy Finereader. **What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use the FineReader privately. It has all the functions I wish for from a PDF editor. Additionally, I can install it privately on 2 PCs. ### 18. The best OCR software there is **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sylwester Z. | Quality Assurance Technician, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 28, 2021 **What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** The accuracy of the OCR on scanned documents is just amazing. Windows version is far better then Mac, but both gives You the same OCR accuracy, which is great. The easy of use of Mac version is also worth mentioning. **What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** The Mac version of FineReader is a little bit too simple comparing to Windows version. I would really love if the 2 versions could be more or less the same, functionality wise. **Recommendations to others considering FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac:** If you want the best - go with Windows version. If You want easy of use - Mac version it is **What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am using Mac version for all my Home OCR needs, and it has been great. It is easy to use, and helped me to go "paperless". Windows version is much more capable though. So if You need solution for Your business - Windows it is... ### 19. Works well but needs improved interface **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Randal O. | Economist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 28, 2021 **What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** ABBYFinereader is able OCR of all sorts of documents and typefaces. I like the fact that I can choose to have Finereader rotate the documents for diagonal text or not (my preference is not). **What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** 1. It would be nice to drag-and-drop documents onto an icon in the dock or within the software itself. 2. After doing an OCR for one document, all successful attempts to do an OCR fail. That means I have to quite ABBYY Finereader after each OCR. **What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?** My previous OCR software didn't work for many documents and sometimes made the PDFs double in size. Finereader solves these problems. ### 20. Decent product, but ass-backward company **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 28, 2021 **What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** The OCR is top notch, and the speed is quite good. It's certainly not difficult to use, either. **What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** When you purchase a software product from any other company in the world, you are free to download it again at any time. You can also retrieve your license using your account. Not with ABBYY! Boy, you'd better keep the installer and license backed up somewhere, because if you ever need to reinstall or put it on another machine, you will NOT be able to get it from ABBYY. This is outright stupid. **Recommendations to others considering FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac:** Accept that you are dealing with a company stuck in 1996. **What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm converting books into digital copies as a form of backup. Had a water scare that almost got to my collection of books, so I am not taking chances. ### 21. The best PDF reader/editor I've ever used! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Heather M. | Systems/Network Administration, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 28, 2021 **What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** I use Finereader specifically to scan receipts and convert them to Excel. I'm very impressed with how well Finereader will convert my scan into the appropriate document type. **What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** So far, there isn't anything that I dislike about Finereader. **Recommendations to others considering FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac:** This software is the best at converting OCR to a variety of document formats! **What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?** In the past, I manually entered all of my receipts into a spreadsheet. I was thrilled to find that Finereader can scan, recognize and transfer all of my data into a spreadsheet automatically. ### 22. Great PDF program for a reasonable price. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dave K. | Owner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 28, 2021 **What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** FineReader gives is a powerful PDF editing tool. It also offers accurate character recognition that allows you to copy and past from PDF documents. Exactly what I needed. **What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** I have no complaints about this product as it provided me everything I was looking for. **What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am now able to highlight, copy and paste large blocks of text from PDF's that we used to have to retype. The ability to edit PDF's and add items such as text boxes and date boxes has become extremely valuable. ### 23. Wonderful PDF Manipulation tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Thomas P. | Systems Analyst, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 28, 2021 **What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** I use ABBYY primarily for extracting information from PDF's in table formats, and it does precisely what I need with minimal effort required **What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** I have trouble now and then with poor quality pdf's, but that is not ABBYY fault **Recommendations to others considering FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac:** Watch youtube videos on the features, it really helps to learn everything it can do **What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?** Being able to use a quick and efficient tool for table extraction has been a great boon to my effort to speed up my processes. What took days now takes hours ### 24. FINE READER FOR CONVERTING PDFS TO DOCS **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Translation and Localization | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 07, 2022 **What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** It helps me a lot with the formatting when I receive documents that are non-editable and need to convert them into Word documents **What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** The quality of the conversion could be improved, primarily due to the fact that a lot of tiny text boxes are created instead of for example a table which can be easily editable against source **Recommendations to others considering FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac:** I think it is one of the best converters in the market, I would love if this software could be improved but have not used any other showing better results **What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?** Document conversion mostly PDF conversion into word, but sometimes images into Word as well ### 25. Great tool for pulling the strings in PDF **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sascha S. | Translator and Interpreter, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 28, 2021 **What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** You can edit everything in PDFs convert to various other file types pull the strings to match your specific needs **What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** Unfortunately, there is no possibility to access the program via a webpage or an app (which is not permanently included with the purchase of the main program) **Recommendations to others considering FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac:** Ask the team for a free test license if you want to check it out! **What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?** Edit PDF files and convert them to other file types for further processing for my translation business. ### 26. OCR Front-runner: Better End Result than Acrobat Pro DC **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 28, 2021 **What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** Tl;dr. If you have a good computer and don't mind some extra processing time and storage, then FineReader produces a superior output. FineReader uses multiple cores if necessary, so as far as text recognition is concerned, FineReader is faster than Acrobat Pro DC. Note this with a caveat because when you first create an OCR project, it takes time to load ("add") pages, and exporting a recognized project takes longer. However, if adding pages is a means of preprocessing, I wouldn't mind this extra time because the resulting file has a superior quality to Acrobat's result. There are ways to customize the output in the Export dialogue, so play with it until the result is satisfying. Here is why I think the end quality is superior, assuming you are using the default settings and keeping the image (aka text under the image). The most noticeable difference is at the text edges — FineReader preserves the thickness of the characters, so the night/inverted mode works equally well as it is on the white paper. I played with the settings on Acrobat but with no luck — the output sort of eats away the edge, and as a result, the characters become thinner and edgier (doesn't mean any sharper). I haven't spent as much time comparing the picture quality. FineReader's output files are generally much larger than Acrobat's and have less pixelating (haloing) around the line edges. **What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** Here comes the only major downside I can think of. OCR project files are massive! High-quality scans of three books resulted in 16 GB (390 pages), 21 GB (500 pages) and 24 GB (600 pages) of storage. I got myself an external SSD just to store these project files in case I need them again. If you need to process a document once and not save the project, however, this shouldn't be a concern. Wait, you still need enough space for the running project. **What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am creating a high-quality, readable, and searchable document out of a high-quality scan. The most prominent benefit is not losing the quality of the scan while being able to customize the export settings depending on the need. ### 27. A Lifesaver for Me Since 2011 **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Phil H. | Deployment Project Manager (IT Project Manager / Information Technology Project Manager), Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 12, 2021 **What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** I like how FineReader Pro is a best-in-class solution for OCR. I like how there have been substantive improvements in FineReader 15 over FineReader 14, especially in regards to PDF viewing and editing. I also really like that FineReader allows me to reorder the content on pages so that it renders correctly when the final document type is an EPUB or is plain text. **What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** I dislike that FineReader doesn't do handwriting recognition. I dislike that FineReader uses temp locations for part of its install which makes it one of the more commonly corrupted software on my PC. **Recommendations to others considering FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac:** Be aware that ABBYY also has mobile phone apps, a thin/web version, and also enterprise services. **What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?** At work, I am able to quickly get reliable text from screenshots using ABBYY Screenshot Reader. My original and main use has been turning scans of books into EPUB documents. ### 28. Wonderful tools for PDF **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** John P. | Executive Director, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 15, 2021 **What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** It's Very lightweight, fast and has full customizable tools for PDF and edit text OCR, you can merge, edit positions of Pages, add ir remove Pages too. **What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** Nothing to improve in my perception, maybe the GUI ir icons reserve a verter design **What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?** In heavy files I can resize the images or convert the text from images to plain text and send over email, in the past an special design business and cost us a lot of money ### 29. Long Lasting Collaboration with FineReader **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** ILKER G. | Kurucu, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 29, 2021 **What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** Finereader is an essential need for translators. Allday, we scan and convert documents into Word documents and overwrite them by translating. It keeps the layout and fonts. After translation, it looks like the original **What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** Georgian font has been missing for years. **Recommendations to others considering FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac:** OCR convert and PDF Processing is the best with Finereader **What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?** There is no problem; the program runs smoothly. Time-saving, it is becoming effortless to translate in Trados Studio. ### 30. Wonderful Software! It does what it is supposed to do! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nicole K. | Unternehmensinhaber, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 28, 2021 **What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** I can buy the license for ABBYY FineReader with a one-time payment. The software is easy to use. It doesn't take long to get used to it, the results are brilliant, and the support is good. **What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** There is nothing I dislike or miss from this product. **What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?** I can correct errors in pdf-documents quickly, and I can convert them into various formats. I get my work done in less time. ### 31. One of the best OCR scanner **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Huseyin D. | System Specialist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 24, 2021 **What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** Previously I was using its Windows version, and it worked really well. Now I have switched to macOS, and still working so stable. Results are always accurate if you give a clear writing page. Also, it has many export options into different document styles. It is working quickly and is stable. **What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** I was using document comparison on Windows, but the m1 macOS version doesn't have that feature. Prices are a bit high. **Recommendations to others considering FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac:** If you need an OCR scanner, it is one of the best. **What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?** When I have a document (especially pdf), I use it to describe the writing and edit them in a text editor. ### 32. A great timesaver. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 17, 2021 **What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** The accuracy, even without training it to recognize more difficult text. But even beyond that, raves for the tech support folks who worked with me for hours online over two months trying to help me uninstall version 10 and install my Abbyy FR 15. **What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** No real downside, but in earlier versions 4,6,8,10 the training procedure was quite time-consuming and it seemed to go over the very same challenging characters time and time again after they'd been assigined the correct character. I have to admit I've not yet tried char. Recognition training in version 15. Haven't needed it. Solomiia Boichuk was incredibly persistent and helpful, consulting with several colleagues (their experts in different areas that were suspected of causing the problem. No one could have asked for more from a support team. **What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?** Scanning text I need to digitize and edit (non of it in English) for my databases (I use ABBYY FR on a PC only; don't need it on my Mac) As per above, it saves a lot of keystroking time and effort with very few OCR errors or questionable interpretations, which are readily identifiable. The ability to read multiple languages in a single document is another major advantage. ### 33. Excellent OCR!!! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 31, 2021 **What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** The most helpful element of ABBY OCR is the ability to process scans of paper documents and rapidly make them searchable. This opens up a large quantity of data and aynalisis that otherwise would be inaccessable. **What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** Nothing! I think that if I had to improve anything that it would be to allow users to automatically process unlimited documents on their own custom servers or even enterprise PC. This would be a lot more useful and a lot less limiting. **What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am solving the problem of having a massive amount of scanned historical documents inaccessible to use outside of reading through the entire batch of documents. This has improved my workplace efficiency by being able to now keyword search these documents. ### 34. Great product! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Niko C. | IT Director | Digital Forensic Examiner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 28, 2021 **What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** reliability and fast to find what you are looking for. 300 pages OCR took about 2 minutes. Really fast! **What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** would be nice to have iphone app too. on the go! **Recommendations to others considering FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac:** please buy it - great investment **What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?** fast OCR on the go and big discovery cases ### 35. Great productive OCR tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andrey V. | Abteilungsleiter, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 28, 2021 **What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** I like the flexibility allowing to solve any complex OCR case. **What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** The switch between scan window and OCR is disturbing **Recommendations to others considering FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac:** I can honestly suggest this tool to everybody with OCR demand **What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?** I scan all incoming papers to archive and search it electronically ### 36. Abby Fine Reader is the most trustable OCR program. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Iria C. | Freelance translator and interpreter/respeaker/live-captioner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 28, 2021 **What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** I use it on a daily basis to convert PDF to Word and the results have the maximum quality. I also use it to edit PDF, it's a great program. **What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** I don't have any complaint so far. The program has always worked for me and the type of job I do. **What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?** To start with, it's cheaper than PDF pro, so it's easy to have an unlimited license than renewing your license every year. ### 37. Easy OCR software **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Carlo Magno R. | Business Partner Consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 15, 2022 **What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** Configuration level and the patterns dictionary **What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** I can not work with different users in the Virtual Machines. **Recommendations to others considering FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac:** Work first with the trial version **What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?** Read scanned PDF files and quality assurance process in the bank **Official Response from Denis Komarov:** > Hello Carlo, Thank you for your valuable feedback! FineReader PDF has different licensing options, including Remote user. You can read more about it here https://pdf.abbyy.com/licensing/ . If you use a standalone license, it is assigned to your PC. To provide you with the full answer, we need more details about your usage scenario. Can you please submit a request to support.abbyy.com , and we will help you! ### 38. Good competitor to Adobe Acrobat CS **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Entertainment | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 28, 2021 **What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** It does a great job in recognizing scanned documents that need to be edited out. Whats great is once the scanned documents are OCRd the size is reduced to half. **What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** Exporting to two different formats doesn't work and requires you to re-import the file. **What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?** Compressing large scanned PDF files, OCR some text documents to export into HTML, text etc. ### 39. Quality and mostly reliable product **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Arts and Crafts | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 29, 2021 **What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** The accuracy of ABBY FineReader is head and shoulders above any other product on the market. We frequently employ multiple languages to read a diverse range of archival documents. **What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** FineReader often has difficulty processing a large number of pages in one session. When processing a 1000+ page document, there is a long wait time for processing and program timeouts. **What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are outputting high-resolution reproduction images to searchable, collated PDFs. The flexibility to output into single PDF files per page or collating all pages into a single PDF has been instrumental in meeting our client's needs. ### 40. Missing Read Aloud Feature **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** S K Puneeth K. | Bill's Person, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 17, 2021 **What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** The most helpful feature for me in this software is auto OCR. Any PDF file you open the software runs OCR on automatically. **What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** No read aloud feature. The feature this software is missing is the READ ALOUD FEATURE. Microsoft edge has it. **What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helps me digitise documents quickly from the pictures of photos instead of having to put them through a flatbed scanner. ### 41. Very good OCR-tool! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Translation and Localization | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 03, 2022 **What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** It is versatile, you can use it on several types of images, pdf, jpg, etc and it does magic with them! **What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** Everything ok, nothing to dislike about it! **What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?** I mostly OCR-ize Word files, it works pretty well! I win some extra time! Yes, i benefit financially from this product! ### 42. This has replaced Omnipage and Acrobat for me. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Paul W. | Student, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 21, 2021 **What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** The OCR of Omnipage and the PDF to Word conversion of Acrobat all in one package. **What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** I dislike the slow startup of Abbyy Fineready. **What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?** The screenshot text grabber is very useful. ### 43. Reliable and easy to use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Translation and Localization | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 28, 2021 **What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** The ability to choose the very sections you want to convert is really useful. **What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** Mac version does not have a live preview **What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am a translator by profession and very frequently my clients send me low quality pdf files. I am able to easily convert what I need with FineReader ### 44. Great tool at a good price **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 28, 2021 **What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** Very good character recognition, many languages, a lot of features, no subscription **What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** The order process on the Abbyy website is a bit shaky (confirmation and communication by email only), PDF-Editor changes the layout **What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?** making PDFs searchable helps a lot to find the relevant part in a document much faster ### 45. Much better accuracy than any other solution **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andy W. | Lecturer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 12, 2021 **What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** Finereader saves me time in reviewing complex documents. It lhas much better accuracy than other solutions I have tried, it rotates pages correctly, and it properly parses multiple columns of text. This keeps me from missing important text in searches. Also the batch mode is a huge time saver. **What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** I haven't quite figured out all of the options and menu items. They are not as self-explanatory as I would have liked. I also wish I could move page allocations from month to month for hot folder. **What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?** I often need to search patents and technical documents. Accuracy is super important to me. I also want to be able to copy excerpts without a ton of post-editing. **Official Response from Denis Komarov:** > We are sorry to hear about your issues with figuring out the main options and scenarios. We have a lot of tutorial videos available to help you get more familiar with using FineReader and the comprehensive tasks it can perform. For Windows: https://pdf.abbyy.com/how-to-videos/, and for Mac: https://pdf.abbyy.com/finereader-pdf-for-mac/how-to-videos/ ### 46. Easy & convenient **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Photography | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 27, 2021 **What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** Easy and quick to use and able to cope with different fonts & sizes **What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** No real problems with it. I only use occasionally, but when required it's a real timesaver **Recommendations to others considering FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac:** Saves time and convenient - worth every cent **What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?** Best way to digitise block of text ### 47. Inserted in documents workflow **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Stephan F. | Head of Technology and Digital Transformation, Events Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 12, 2021 **What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** I do scan quite a big pile of documents each week with a Fujitsu Snapscan and all goes through FineReader to make the PDFs searchable. There are afterwards uploaded to Dropbox or Evernote. It's fast, stable and reliable. **What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** I had to install my workflow on a PC because the MAC version was less performant. **Recommendations to others considering FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac:** It's a "fire-and-forget" setup with the Fujitsu ScanSnap. It just works. **What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?** Make all my scanned PDFs searchable. ### 48. Best PDF converter for professional users! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Leandro D. | Sales Partner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 03, 2022 **What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** Conversion from PDF to Word and Excel is perfect! Speeds work of professional translators. **What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** Works best on Windows. Would be glad if the same performance on MAC. **What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?** Translation documents, from PDF to Word and Excel. ### 49. The Perfect Alternative to the Strangle-Hold of the Industry Leader **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Doug B. | Chief, SSI Program Office, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 22, 2021 **What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** 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. **What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** 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. **Recommendations to others considering FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac:** If you are looking for a Powerful and efficient PDF tool-set you FineReader PDF 15 is everything you need. **What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?** The ability to convert all my files, web-based HTML, Screen Captures, Text, Google Docs and MS Office Suite documents into one format with one tool FineReader PDF. The benefit is that FineReader PDF isn't a resource hog. I have to use the other PDF tool with one client - on their systems and have to reboot my computer every hour as it uses up all available resources and stops working. ### 50. Works as I need it to **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Construction | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 12, 2021 **What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** I bought Fine Reader for its ability to convert construction plans into excel worksheets. It does this exactly as I had hoped. **What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?** I realize that pdf documents are pictures/scans so not everything is as crisp as you need them to be. I am hoping that with newer versions that this will be fine-tuned so that my conversions go perfectly every time. **What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is helping me to take a schedule that is in the plans of a building and bring it into excel (rows and columns remain as needed) so that I can process the schedule and bring it into our production software. ## FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac Discussions - [I can't resolve the internal error that sometimes appears during use.](https://www.g2.com/discussions/i-can-t-resolve-the-internal-error-that-sometimes-appears-during-use) - 2 comments, 1 upvote - [How can I drag a page between pdf documents?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-can-i-drag-a-page-between-pdf-documents) - 2 comments, 1 upvote - [What does abbyy FineReader do?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-does-abbyy-finereader-do) - 4 comments - [How do you use abbyy FineReader 15?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-do-you-use-abbyy-finereader-15) - 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