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# 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. A nice alternative to the usual Adobe Acrobat PDF Editor

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Justin R. | Senior Project Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 18, 2021

**What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

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.

**What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

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.

**Recommendations to others considering FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac:**

I think that compared to what I'm used to using with Adobe, FineReader offers all the primary functions I'd want, so it serves as a fine alternative.  It was made even better since it came paired with my Xerox scanner, which makes for a great marriage of products.  I'd say the only feature I haven't really tried is their Form Editor, but the mere fact that it exists makes me think it will be a well-composed perk.

**What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?**

The best benefit was gaining access to a means to manipulate PDFs that I was lacking.  This has made it much simpler to interact with companies when PDF work was needed, where before I had to get more creative to solve any issues.

  ### 2. Simply the best.

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Satoru M. | Freelance Translator &amp; Interpreter (E&lt;&gt;J), Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 18, 2021

**What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

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.

**What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

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.

**What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?**

I OCR Japanese patent documents that are provided in PDF format to MS Word, which I then feed into a CAT (Computer Aided Translation) software to carry out translation services. CAT software use is essential for modern translators, particularly for highly repetitious tasks such as patent translation.

  ### 3. Best conversion of PDFs to word docs that I have used

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** December 28, 2021

**What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

PDF to Word conversion is excellent, and OCR is accurate.

**What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

A little pricey but not bad given how good it is.

**What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Convert PDF to Word for convenient comparison of different OCRed documents.

  ### 4. Thumbs Up

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** January 05, 2022

**What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

Ease of use. Fast and reliable. Friendly UI.

**What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

Somewhat bulky. Processing takes a long time. Navigation can be confusing. Customer service is not too friendly.

**What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?**

OCR.

  ### 5. It's honestly great!

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 12, 2021

**What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

I really enjoy the OCR. It's absolutely stunning. I can put in Japanese image files and it'll be able to capture all of the text perfectly. The interface is easy to use and very intuitive. Even converting pdfs to word files is near perfect.

**What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

I think it's a very good product overall. One thing that is difficult is trying to convert pdfs with tables to word files. Often the format is a bit strange. But it's not too much of a deal. It's easy to fix.

**Recommendations to others considering FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac:**

If you have a lot of old documents that you need to digitize, this product is perfect for it.

**What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Definitely converting old documents into pdfs with editable text. There are a lot of old documents that only have hard copies. so putting them into digital format is so helpful.

**Official Response from Denis Komarov:**

> Dear User,
thank you for sharing your feedback and for the great review. We are sorry to hear about your issues with converting/extracting tables and offer you to contact our support team https://support.abbyy.com/hc/en-us/requests/new in case you face more issues since in general, this should not be the case.  ABBYY’s intelligent OCR and PDF document conversion technologies ensure high levels of accuracy and preserve document layout and structure. So when working with tables, FineReader can reproduce the structure of the table very accurately. The problem could be due to the specific document you are using, in case it's a very complex structure or bad quality, or could be due to some other errors.

  ### 6. Best software converting to Word

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Roman K. | T, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 13, 2021

**What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

Ver  15 converts perfect to Word perfectly. We a translator company a get text als scanned to PDF. Textblocs in Word work fine.

**What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

After changing the language the document layout, the language is changed to previous setting.

**What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We a translator company a get text als PDF. We transform them to Word and the import to our translating cloud system.

  ### 7. FineReader PDF

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Laurențiu R. | Expert în Legislația Muncii, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** December 28, 2021

**What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

The scan function is the best. It`s verry easy.

**What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

There's nothing I don't like about this program.

**Recommendations to others considering FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac:**

Nothing

**What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?**

It helped me to shorten the editing time of the documents.

  ### 8. FineReader 15 is very useful for my use case

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 12, 2021

**What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

The OCR engine is very accurate and has almost no errors

**What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

The 5000 document monthly limit when using Hot Folder. I would like Abby to offer bigger monthly limits paying an extra.

**Recommendations to others considering FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac:**

From our own personal experience, this product should be very useful for your organization if you are looking for software that can convert images to text using an OCR engine. We have tried extensively with plenty of different pictures and texts and have achieved outstanding results.

**What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Converting images to text to extract information. We couldn't do it without this program

**Official Response from Denis Komarov:**

> Dear Administrator,

That is correct. A Hot Folder is capable of processing up to 5,000 pages per month (the number of pages resets every 30 days) and uses up to 2 CPU cores for document conversion.  But you can still continue to convert multiple documents using the main FineReader PDF 15 user interface (New Task window), this option is unlimited in all product editions (Standard, Corporate).

 

For automated conversion of high-volume of documents, we would recommend you try to FineReader Server (https://www.abbyy.com/finereader-server) from our extensive ABBYY portfolio.

  ### 9. ABBYY FineReader PDF 15

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Bill A. | Managing Director, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 13, 2021

**What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

The ABBYY Team has provided the most complete & easy to use User's Guide & Knowledgebase Support / Information I have seen in a software offering.   The software itself is easy to use and is full of extra features.

**What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

Support upon installation -- It takes a bit to long for the ABBYY Team to respond to issues.

**Recommendations to others considering FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac:**

Easy to Use -- Great documentation

**What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Scanning to both image only & OCR full-text searchable documents.

  ### 10. Great for reviewing large records

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Kim K. | Attorney, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 12, 2021

**What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

I was able to go through hundreds of pages of medical records searching for particular words in minutes.  It was wonderful.

**What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

Nothing so far bothers me, and it works as I had hoped.

**What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?**

I am an attorney and I will review medical records for my Clients.  If there is an issue about some medical condition, I can enter the medical condition and review hundreds of pages looking for that condition in minutes.

  ### 11. Very Satisfied

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Management Consulting | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 12, 2021

**What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

I was able to solve a really important time management issue plaguing me for two years as well as reproducing documents of mine from the pre-computer era.  Thank you.

**What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

The price was a little steep for my budget.  I have a simple business.

**Recommendations to others considering FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac:**

Very impressed!

**What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?**

I was able to solve a really important time management issue plaguing me for two years as well as reproducing documents of mine from the pre-computer era.

  ### 12. Finally Fraktur German!

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** December 29, 2021

**What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

I can now scan old Fraktur and Blackletter items and get an accurate transcription.

**What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

It can take a while to figure out all the features.

**What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?**

OCR instead of typing afresh is a huge time-saver.

  ### 13. We find this program very helpful

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 12, 2021

**What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

Saves us a lot of time because we don't have to retype long paragraphs

**What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

We have to proofread because sometimes it will add punctuation, numbers or words that are not there.  Example;  for the word corner it changes the word to "comer"

**Recommendations to others considering FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac:**

Great for saving time with descriptions

**What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Saves us a lot of time so we don't have to type out full-length descriptions for deeds.

  ### 14. This is a great product

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Kent C. | Purchasing Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 12, 2021

**What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

Ease in converting files and scanning docs.

**What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

System does not store templated internally.

**Recommendations to others considering FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac:**

Great of OCR

**What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Ease of scanning documents and doing some converting to text.

  ### 15. Abbyy is a very handy tool to have to work with pdfs

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Bohdana S. | I, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** May 20, 2020

**Describe the project or task FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac helped with:**

As an Immigration consultant I need to translate the documents. Some documents, like bank statements, are lengthy and are submitted as pdfs. Abbyy recognizes the text and makes translation an easy process

**What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

Ability to have several languages at one time

**What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

When the document is moved to word it requires edits

**Recommendations to others considering FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac:**

This is a great product for thise who work with long documents

**What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?**

None

  ### 16. Great PDF reader and editor

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** June 11, 2020

**What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

The software is super versatile and can fast convert pdf into various other types of documents.

**What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

It is quite expensive though to have the service.

**What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We receive documents in PDF and this allow us to open and edit PDF quickly.

  ### 17. Great tool to scan your documents and turn them into readable PDFs

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Legal Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 13, 2021

**What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

It's simple, very straightforward to use.

**What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

The large updates in size, smaller chunk size updates of the application would help.

**What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?**

My company is a cloud storage solution for businesses, we recommend your FineReader for all customers that use a scanner to digitalize their content, as that will help our software index their documents for content search.

  ### 18. Very Good Software

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Accounting | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** May 20, 2020

**Describe the project or task FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac helped with:**

Converting Bank statements from scanned PDF to Excel.

**What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

The time savings this software was able to accomplish.

**What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

A little bit of a learning curve, but that was to be expected.

**Recommendations to others considering FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac:**

This is a very nice program that will save much time.

**What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?**

This has allowed a great deal of data entry which cuts down on mistakes.

  ### 19. Simple to Use. Nice features. Relatively inexpensive relative to competing products.

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 12, 2021

**What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

Simple to use/install. Nice features. Relatively inexpensive relative to competing products.

**What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

We have not had any problems thus far. Our usage isn't like extensive so there may be more advanced features it doesn't have, but we aren't aware of them.

**Recommendations to others considering FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac:**

I don't have any. The product works fine. The licenses we bought are individual so I would suggest making sure you know how many of your staff will actually use it.

**What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We predominantly use it to assemble minutes for committee meetings. It helps us send out one attachment rather than dozens.

  ### 20. It saves hours of work

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Mateusz P. | Member, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 12, 2021

**What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

The ability to convert documents from pdf in seconds saves hours of mundane work. It has helped a lot in a number of projects.

**What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

Not being able to convert from graphic formats in an easy way.

**What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Problems of editing pdf, including scanned documents, simply disappear with FineReader.

  ### 21. Great program. It saves me so much time and money!

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Translation and Localization | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** September 19, 2021

**What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

Overall ease of use and all the features.

**What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

Often find inaccuracy with accents in Spanish, recognized as symbols. No videos to learn tricks.

**What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?**

File conversion and mirroring.

  ### 22. FineReader Pro surpassed all my expectations - by miles! So impressive.

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** David M F. | Owner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** January 11, 2021

**What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

To be honest, I downloaded a trial of ABBY FineReader Pro as a last resort. I genuinely didn't expect it to read the 6pt smudgy, skewed grey text on a yellow background that the client had sent. I've been in the graphics business since before Macs were invented. So it takes a LOT to impress me nowadays - and FineReader just blitzed it. My client had sent 3 A4 pages of legal Terms and Conditions in a PDF that had obviously started life as a lo-res JPG. You can start to see why I wanted to try anything other than manual typing! FineReader took one look and gave me a PERFECT text file. 100% accurate.

I charged the client for hours of copy typing, which earned enough to buy the software. Win-win!  Thank you ABBY!

**What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

Nothing to dislike. Clean, fast and accurate!

**What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?**

I'm now waiting for another job that needs scanning!

  ### 23. I have use Fine Reader for many years to convert PDF to word in different language

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Plastics | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 22, 2021

**What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

To convert to Word documents to be able to translate it to English

**What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

The problem is that sometimes the word documents are difficult to adjust

**What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?**

I get PDF documents in a different language and need to convert them to English

  ### 24. FineReader PDF

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Building Materials | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 12, 2021

**What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

Easily coverts PDF's to other formats for import into other programs

**What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

Unframilar with all of the features and takes some additional time to fully utilize the program

**Recommendations to others considering FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac:**

Seamlessly converts PDF's with the click of a mouse

**What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Able to easily modify and save documents

  ### 25. excellent tool to boost productivity

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Roberto Starling P. | CEO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 12, 2021

**What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

PDF editing text recognition skills, drawings, and annotations are fantastic.

**What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

Unfortunately the digital certification process fails and doesn't work

**Recommendations to others considering FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac:**

Without a doubt, an excellent tool that will enhance your work capacity.

**What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Increase in productivity and professional skills

**Official Response from Denis Komarov:**

> We are sorry to hear you faced an issue while using FineReader PDF.
To help investigate the problem, please feel free to contact the ABBYY support team directly to resolve it: https://support.abbyy.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

  ### 26. Great software to edit dead documents

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Translation and Localization | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 12, 2021

**What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

It allows to me convert 'dead' PDF files, such as scanned or faxed documents  (i.e., transcripts, prescriptions, etc.), that I need to translate for work

**What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

It sometimes doesn't convert tables properly, and I need to recreate them (which is very time-consuming).

**Recommendations to others considering FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac:**

Definitely a great software to have if you need to OCR documents

**What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?**

It has increased my workflow as I am spending less time recreating, formatting, and retyping text.

  ### 27. FineReader does a great job

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Food & Beverages | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 18, 2021

**What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

I find it easy to edit PDFs and combine PDFs

**What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

sometimes have difficulty selecting a scanner on my network

**What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?**

It makes submitting my expense reports and receipts easy

  ### 28. Easy to use software and accurate.  Great for guided OCF and editing PDFs

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Jim R. | Volunteer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 18, 2021

**What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

The OCR software guides you through the document so you can accept or change characters that it is not certain about.

**What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

The UI is a bit crowded and overwhelming at first but is not too hard to get used to.

**What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Scanning records documents and converting to word and excel is the main use for the software.  It is also used for creating PDF form that clients can use to fill in their details electronically rather than freehand.

  ### 29. Nice Product

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 12, 2021

**What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

Interface and that you can save as editable ERxcel or Word document

**What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

I constantly have to reload the program.

**What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Scanning hard copy documents and converting them to Databases

  ### 30. Versatile and accurate PDF to Word converter

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 12, 2021

**What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

Easy batch conversion of PDFs to Word. Also has a zone editor which is very useful for converting difficult pages such as this containing tables or which are sideways.

**What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

Zone editor is a bit crowded unlike the simpler interface of earlier versions. But I've been using this product since V3.0

**What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Conversion to Word to make it easier to make a scanned PDF accessible.

  ### 31. OCR Tool of Choice

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Tadas B. | Project Coordinator, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** December 17, 2020

**What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

Abbyy is invaluable in OCR'ing poorly scanned PDFs and un-editable images. Whilst particularly crude files might require some elbow grease and finesse to analyze correctly, for the most part, Abbyy does a great job even with default set up options.

**What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

It can be very slow to process massive files, but it's a common trait for all current market OCR tools.

**What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?**

As we work with localization, sometimes we need to work with un-editable file formats such as photographs and PDF files, our key use for Abbyy is to get those types of file malleable and able to be translated within CAT tools.

  ### 32. Dimitra review

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Translation and Localization | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 12, 2021

**What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

Helps me boost my productivity since I don't have to type a lot.

**What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

Texts with multiple languages are not always properly optimised.

**Recommendations to others considering FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac:**

If you try it, you will save a lot of time and boost your productivity.

**What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?**

As a translation agency we can use to to edit texts and save a lot of time from typing.

  ### 33. Good alternative for Adobe

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 12, 2021

**What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

Flexibility without subscription. This is key!

**What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

Takes time to get used to being familiar with all the features

**Recommendations to others considering FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac:**

Excellent alternative to Adobe and kofax

**What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?**

1- being able to physically edit documents.
2- ability to accurately ocr documents (in the past fine reader wasn't very accurate)

  ### 34. Excellent, but it's giving an error: (D:\Agente\Work\137\...

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Law Enforcement | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 12, 2021

**What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

OCR Editor. It's the best I've ever used

**What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

Internal Program Error. Internal Program Error. After I bought and installed 15

**Recommendations to others considering FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac:**

I can't resolve the internal error that sometimes appears during use.

**What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Transforming PDF tables into Excel is the most useful tool

**Official Response from Denis Komarov:**

> We are sorry to hear you faced an issue while using FineReader PDF.
To help investigate the problem, please feel free to contact the ABBYY support team directly to resolve it: https://support.abbyy.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

  ### 35. Good & useful piece of software

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | 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 scan and convert documents into editable word & excel docs

**What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

Slightly time to boot, doesn't automatically update data extraction area when changing boxes etc

**What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Ripping data from bank statements and other financial documents (my own!)

  ### 36. Great tool for document scanning, high quality of OCR

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Leonardo L. | Network Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** September 07, 2019

**What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

The most helpful part of ABBYY fine scanner is that it scans the highest quality of image though it just runs on a mobile device. It provides very high OCR precision in plain text mode and it keeps the format very well, without useless formats and blank text boxes (which I saw often in some other scanning software).

**What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

Pricing might be a reason that our organization finally stopped using ABBYY -- either the project based or subscription based pricing model costs a lot for our org and we finally switched to some cheaper solutions.  One other issue is that the OCR functionality doesn't work well on non-Latin characters like Russian and Chinese -- which is the common problem for most of the OCR solutions on market -- perhaps they just do not have so many dataset to train the machine learning model.

**Recommendations to others considering FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac:**

The camera quality of your mobile phone greatly affects the scan quality. Please do use iPhone when do the scanning.

**What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Scan and store printed documents / papers / books easier using just your mobile phone. No scanners are required anymore but you can still get high-quality scanned documents.   

  ### 37. Easy to use

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Anthony N. | TVI/COMS, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 19, 2021

**What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

I like how it can rake any page and covert it to useable text. It makes turning print pages into Braille managable.

**What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

A few things get lost in the OCR. Not many

**What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?**

It makes converting documents into a useable form. It has cut my time immensely

  ### 38. Scan your documents and digitize them

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Izumi M. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** September 01, 2020

**What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

Scan documents with this incredible AI, with a very high processing and storage capacity, you can scan documents and convert them into various interactive formats, there really is no loss in this system, everything they have they do well.

**What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

Currently, support has stopped responding. To receive help, contact a salesperson, an authorized agent, or keep calling frequently, as the web correspondence has stopped receiving messages. I hope they can fix this problem as soon as possible, so we don't have to suffer if the system fails. A service is paid for, and good results are expected.

**Recommendations to others considering FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac:**

I recommend using all the available information from the reviewers, in addition to doing a little research on your own. In my personal experience, it is a great tool, and once you start using it, you won't be able to stop using it.

**What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?**

It represents a tool that is frequently used in my area of work, which is indispensable and extremely necessary for the success of our work. We constantly need to digitize hundreds of documents, and this scanning is incredibly useful for carrying out these tasks.

  ### 39. Hobbled By Lack of User Control, Incomplete Settings

**Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Management Consulting | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 18, 2021

**What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

It was bundled with a Xerox document scanner.

**What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

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.

**What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?**

None. Very time consuming  and annoying to manually copy/move PDF files from a local drive folder to a network drive.

**Official Response from Anastasiya Tsed:**

> Dear customer,

Thank you for your review.

We did use to bundle some of our older versions with scanners, FineReader Sprint as one example but we do not do so anymore.  Our latest version- FineReader PDF 15 is not available as bundle. It is sold separately, as a standalone license. 

It sounds like you might still be using one our previous versions, and have not upgraded to the latest version.

Regarding defining a default file folder on a local or network drive, it depends on what kind of actions you are looking to perform, but this is possible with FineReader PDF 15. Conversion scenarios, such PDF to Word for example, can be automated with the help of Hot Folder, where a default folder can be set up and any files placed in it will be converted automatically with pre-defined settings.

Please feel free to contact ABBYY support team directly in case of any issues https://support.abbyy.com/hc/.


Best regards,
ABBYY FineReader PDF team 

  ### 40. Convertir pdf a muchos otros archivos.

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Tate P. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 24, 2020

**Describe the project or task FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac helped with:**

Actualmente gestiono un equipo que debe convertir documentos y además de eso generar informes de esto, gracias a Abbyy este trabajo es más sencillo y extremadamente rápido y completo en todo momento.

**What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

Gracias a abbyy puedo convertir mis archivos con el escáner, es un programa no portátil con el que escaneas un documento y ya tienes su edición disponible, con muchas de las herramientas que ofrece office e incluso más accesorios.

**What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

Realmente siento que tiene culpa con los vendedores, nunca pudimos comprar directamente a los proveedores de abbyy, solo a terceros, porque era realmente difícil y complicado.

**Recommendations to others considering FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac:**

Es mi escáner de documentos favorito, honestamente no me quejo, es increíble y fabuloso, tiene algunos defectos, como que no se lleva bien al convertir imágenes, pero no es un problema grave, su fortaleza son las palabras, y en esto no tiene quien le gane actualmente.

**What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?**

En la oficina, actualmente nos brinda la seguridad y satisfacción de trabajar siempre, el equipo de soporte está atento y deseoso de estudiar nuestros problemas y resolverlos, es un regalo que siempre estén tan atentos.

  ### 41. I switched from Adobe to Abbyy - Happily !

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Reza M. | Founder, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** December 09, 2020

**What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

Ability to edit PDF's easily and the multiple options to reduce file size by page, size, bookmarks, etc.

**What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

Doesn't have tabs for multiple open PDF's (each PDF document is open in it's own independent window).

**What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?**

File size reduction, PDF editing, OCR searching of keywords. Works great with your scanner to enable the OCR function.

  ### 42. Excellent conversion quality from PDF to Word.

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in International Affairs | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 18, 2021

**What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

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.

**What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

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.

**What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Super quality OCR conversion.
Excellent conversion quality from PDF to Word.

  ### 43. Great product for extracting data from PDFs

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 18, 2021

**What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

Ability to accurately extract table data from PDFs

**What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

Windows version required for full features

**What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Extracting text from PDFs

  ### 44. Texts in real time and fast.

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Amanda Y. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 19, 2020

**What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

You can use your phone and scan the text in less than 1 minute, in this way edit it and turn it into a PDF, it really is one of my favorite scanning applications.

**What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

It tends to confuse the words of a text or does not recognize the images, this can make the process somewhat tedious and annoying on some occasions.

**Recommendations to others considering FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac:**

I am really satisfied with its use, I have no strong complaints about the system, however if it fixes some things, like the images, but the system works perfectly.

**What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?**

It constantly helps me at the university and in the office to keep my students focused and provide them with better support material.

  ### 45. A Total Game Changer

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Hilary S. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** May 20, 2020

**Describe the project or task FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac helped with:**

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.

**What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

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.

**What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

The only negative thing in my experience was that the OCR would misread some text and replace it with symbols, etc. However, the documents I was working with were several decades old and the font was likely an old typewriter. With newer documents, typed in current software, I did not have that problem.

**Recommendations to others considering FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac:**

I would reccommend downloading a free trial first, just to see what this software can do. After that - I would be surprised if someone didn't want to buy the full version! Great product!

**What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Because of ABBYY we were able to complete this project, and a few others, more efficently because we can use the OCR feature to capture text in large sections, saving time to manually enter data. Plus, it reduces the likelihood of human error, typos, etc.
This software was an excellent investment and we will absoloutely continue to use it going forward. In fact, now that we have the software available we will be able to provide enhanced services to our clients, while at the same time saving both time and money.

  ### 46. So close...yet could be even better with some small changes

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Laura K. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** May 20, 2020

**Describe the project or task FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac helped with:**

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...

**What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

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.

**What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

Mentioned above--no ability for the user to type in the actual word in place of the misread word and be able to apply that translation to every instance. (Have to do a clunky "Find and Replace" outside of the Verify interface, and even then, it doesn't catch every instance.)

**Recommendations to others considering FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac:**

Definitely buy it. You won't regret it. You won't spend hours trying to figure out how to use it. You can get user support very easily.

**What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Converting photocopied/scanned text or entire textbooks to readable-pdf. It's the most accurate program out there. It's reasonably priced, reliable, and user friendly (mostly.)
The benefits have been the ability to easily assist faculty and staff with providing more universally designed/accessible materials for their students so that everyone can benefit from them. Be it a simple screen rotation when the professor had photocopied and posted the article on Moodle in the wrong direction, to clearing up text that is hidden by shadows. And then, of course, being able to save the document in accessible pdf format so that screen readers/voice over software can read aloud the text.

  ### 47. The program has been very helpful with my work!

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Michael R. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** May 20, 2020

**Describe the project or task FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac helped with:**

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.

**What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

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.

**What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

I wish the interface was more intuitive. Also the program is one of the best at being accurate in the information it scans but it still has room for improvement. I work with architectural drawings and architects like to use their special font and ABBYY has a hard time picking it up. If it could translate different fonts besides the basic text fonts better it would greatly improve my use of the program and i think make it an all in all better product.

**Recommendations to others considering FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac:**

Give it a chance, use the 30 day trial to get a feel for it. I believe you will like the program!

**What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Scanning schedules to excel format to manipulate. I also use it to merge proposal PDF files as to make them all in one file for ease of use for whoever at the end will be reading the document.

  ### 48. Abby Fine!!!

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Evren B. | Network & Security Technical Architect, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** June 26, 2020

**What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

When you compare two PDF documents with the product, you get extraordinary results. This feature is much better than many competing products. In addition, it is great to edit in PDF files with the product.

**What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

I cannot say that many textbooks with pictures taken from the browser are very successful in formatting their images. However, in general, the product is ahead of its competitors.

**Recommendations to others considering FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac:**

This product is very successful and performance. I think the most ideal software for managing your PDF documents is ABBYY FineReader.

**What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We use the product to edit the old documents in our company and to convert the word files to PDF. Thanks to these features of the product, we are able to use it up to date by rearranging the previous contracts.

  ### 49. Best PDF tool I have found

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Patrick G. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** May 20, 2020

**Describe the project or task FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac helped with:**

I use ABBYY to manage PDF versions of historic texts that I use for research

**What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

Clean interface and easy to use tools, text recognition function

**What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

I was a bit disappointed to find that the  only way to use a spell check function was in the OCR app. Witht he new features in 15, the ability to edit whole paragraphs, it is more likily that people will be doing more extensive editing in a PDF. Why not give tham a simple spell chjecker there?

**Recommendations to others considering FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac:**

Simple but powerful tool

**What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Other PDF readers just seem to be too pedantic. With ABBY I can get in and get my work done. Also, I really did not want to deal with a software (Phantom PDF and Acrobat) that you could not buy outright. The subscriptions can get pretty expensive.

  ### 50. FineReader PDF for Non-English Language OCE

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Individual & Family Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 18, 2021

**What do you like best about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

OCR worked very well on foreign language character recognition (German) with different typeface and page  characteristics.

**What do you dislike about FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac?**

I encountered no issues using the product.

**What problems is FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Read in a large volume of foreign language text for translation.


## FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac Discussions
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## FineReader PDF for Windows and Mac Features
**Format**
- File Type
- Conversion
- Batch Conversion

**Organization**
- Protect
- Document Scanning

**Edit**
- File Type
- Color
- Crop
- Size

**Design**
- Graphics

**Operating System**
- PC Operating System
- Mac Operating System
- Linux Operating System

**Document Processing**
- File Type
- Mobile Capability
- Intelligent Processing
- Image Enhancement

**Edit**
- Edit
- Annotate

**Editing**
- Size
- Edit Fields
- New PDF
- Field Functions
- Annotate

**Logistics**
- Email Attachment

**Platform Additional Functionality**
- File Conversion
- Windows and Mac

**Data**
- Metadata
- Protect

**File Types**
- Export
- Import
- Web Publishing

**Operating System**
- PC Operating System
- Mac Operating System

**Agentic AI - OCR**
- Autonomous Task Execution

**Edit & Revise**
- Document Editor

**Operating System**
- PC Operating System
- Mac Operating System

**Operating System**
- PC Operating System
- Mac Operating System

**Generative AI**
- AI Text Generation
- AI Text Summarization
- AI Text-to-Image
- AI Text-to-Speech
- AI Image-to-Text

**Agentic AI - Document Creation**
- Proactive Assistance

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