ABBYY FineReader PDF vs PDFelement: Which is a better fit?

Ray: Hi, I'm Ray. I'm president of a trade association. I give ABBYY Reader a five out of five. For more reviews, click below. I like ABBYY Reader because it's a very quick and easy way to edit PDF documents as well as view them. I use it as my default viewer, but I also use it to edit documents and find it very useful. What I like the most about ABBYY FineReader is the compare documents function that allows me to compare two different PDF documents without converting the documents to any other format. It highlights the changes for me and allows me to save time that otherwise I would spend trying to compare documents line by line. There really isn't anything that I would change about this ABBYY FineReader. It is the perfect solution for my business. We are in the business of dealing with legislation and so looking at multiple versions of bills, it's very important to be able to tell what the changes are. And that's what we find most useful about ABBYY Reader as well was being able to edit PDF documents on the fly.

Speaker 1: Hi, I am Travis. I'm marketing manager for an air compressor company. The size is about 25 employees, and with one, to share PDFelement, I would give it about a four out of five on a scale. Before using PDFelement, I was using the free version of Adobe Acrobat, and it was working for some stuff, but I still needed more features, which Adobe blocks behind the paywall. So I switched to PDFelement, which was super affordable, and had all the features that I needed for the basic use case scenarios, and it did a really good job at doing all the basics really well. I chose PDFelement because of the job that it does at recognizing text in a PDF that wasn't really meant to be editable. So when you go into a PDF and you just want to edit some text, or even pull an image out, or replace an image, it was pretty easy to do that and makes those types of jobs really quick and easy. So to implement PDFelement it was pretty easy, straightforward, because I've already used Wondershare programs in the past. All I needed to do was log in, pay for the upgrade, and then just download the software and get into it, and it was pretty straightforward from there. If you're looking to get PDF element and implement it in your organization or just for individual use, I would recommend it. However, if you're using a lot of Adobe products, I probably would gear towards the Adobe Acrobat program, just because if you create something in the Adobe ecosystem, you're likely using Adobe fonts and then those are kind of difficult to convert over when you're using a different PDF editor. So it kind of depends on the ecosystem you're in. If you don't really use a lot of Adobe products outside of that, then I think PDFelement would be much more cost-effective and better overall.