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For small and medium-sized businesses, big companies, and public and educational institutions, FineReader PDF provides a comprehensive and cost-effective PDF solution.
Global OEM and SaaS developers and independent software vendors who need to automate Adobe’s PDF functionality within their own applications & workflows.
ABBYY is a good product at a good price that can be offered to customers. Interest in it is increasing.
The preview does not work, there is no tool to merge several files into one, often manual editing is required.
The output is very clean, and I like that the OCR editor gives so many options to help customize and improve the output so that I can use the text in a translation tool.
The main drawback of ABBYY FineReader is the inability to view the history of document changes in your account. The second minus is that there is no tool for merging several files into one.
I like the many available languages and a large number of functions that allow us to quickly recognize significant amounts of text. There is integration with popular cloud services.
ABBYY FineReader is much inferior to Adobe Acrobat Pro.
I love that this tool lets me convert reams of printed docs into softcopies that I can save and save in my PC.
We use this tool for scanning hard copies of surveys, questionnaires, CVs and all kinds of standard documents such as contracts.
This experience has been positive, I’m satisfied. Signing documents without pen and paper or face to face meetings has saved time and propelled us into a better way of getting work done.
Only that Adobe services are costly for a relatively small organisation. Guidance could be less technical for novice users.
The main reason why I like Adobe PDF Library the most is because it's quite fast and easy to use and it also provides a large number of tools that are good to have for PDF modification.
Complexity, lack of documentation in the beginning (several years ago).
Like I said, Adobe is the creator of the PDF and will likely always be the best way to generate and edit them.
At the beginning it hard to understand how to use some features.
A wonderful application that I recommend using.
Difficult to deploy the Java version to various platforms.
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.
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