# Page 10 | ABBYY FineReader PDF Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Page 10 - Is ABBYY FineReader PDF the right PDF Editor solution for you? Explore 428 verified user reviews from people in industries like yours to make a confident choice. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/65868/ABBYY-FineReader/reviews --- ABBYY FineReader PDF 4.7 (428) [View alternatives](https://www.capterra.com/p/65868/ABBYY-FineReader/alternatives/) Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated March 13th, 2026 # Page 10 - Reviews of ABBYY FineReader PDF ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 226-250 of 428 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use VR Verified Reviewer Senior Quality Assurance Manager Industrial Automation Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Fantastic OCR extraction" February 15, 2023 5.0 Pros I was very surprised to see how well it could extract text from pictures of magazines (multiple columns, images, text boxes…). I particularly liked the feature where you can draw the shape on top of the picture to indicate where is the text, where are images or other objects. From there, you have your editable text pretty easily. Cons it is a paid license, but it worths if you find yourself constantly transforming paper into digital documents that must be accessible on the web. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Researcher Higher Education Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "OCR for Accounting Documents" May 23, 2024 5.0 Pros I have to convert a lot of PDF accounting statements into tables and ABBYY FineReader helps me do this quickly and in batches. Cons It's not very good at reading lines as divisions of the paper Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Translator Sports Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "great software for merging files" May 24, 2022 5.0 great value and performance Pros easy to use without reading a manual, very user friendly Cons expensive, lots of updates, slows down my computer Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Freelance Translator (French-English) Translation and Localization Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Best OCR reader for translators of complicated documents " September 29, 2020 5.0 Using as a translation company evaluating various kinds of documents in different languages Pros No matter what kind of document a client gives me, ABBYY is the best software I've experienced for getting accurate word counts and deciphering text. A must for translation companies working with complicated documents (patents, scans, long documents with images, etc.) Cons Nothing I can think of at the moment - it fulfills our needs as a translation company in reading all kinds of complex documents. Review Source TG Tanya G. Lawyer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Superior scan recognition" April 30, 2019 5.0 Pros This is one of the most frequently used programs by me, which I regularly use to recognize scanned text pages of documents. Copes with PDF conversion. Support all popular formats. Cons Preview does not work and automatically adjust the brightness, the lack of a tool with which you can combine several files into one. Difficulty with pattern recognition. Review Source JV Julia V. Aquafitness trainer Sports Used the software for: 2+ years ### "High-quality text scanning" December 11, 2018 5.0 Pros Almost every day I have to scan quite large volumes of documents, which, strictly speaking, FineReader copes perfectly well, providing high quality scanning in the shortest possible time. Cons Even on a fairly powerful personal computer, opening large files, not to mention converting them to other formats, often takes a considerable amount of time. Review Source Elbert A. Purchasing Manager Glass, Ceramics & Concrete Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "my choice for scanning documents" September 18, 2018 5.0 i need to scan a lot of documents and this software is doing this in good quality and really quick Pros my work process requires a good software for scanning a lot of documents and this program performs good results and best quality of scanning Cons really cant find any weak sides of this software Review Source AM Amanda M. Middle School Teacher Primary/Secondary Education Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Easy text recognition" March 22, 2019 5.0 Pros I like the fact that FineReader has a lot of available languages and a large set of functions that make it easy to perform text recognition. Integration with large cloud services works well. Cons Sometimes it is necessary to make some edits manually, and for the full use of the software I needed to spend time studying using additional tutorials. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Commercial analyst Internet Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Game changer" January 18, 2022 5.0 Pros After starting to use the tool I foregot about wasting my time on retyping text Cons I think that quality of handwriting identification could be improved Review Source VC Viktoria C. Marketing Manager Food & Beverages Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Indispensabile in ufficio" February 15, 2023 5.0 Pros Ottimo Software di gestione e modifica PDF di fondamentale importanza durante la giornata in ufficio. Cons Nessuna nota negativa in quanto programma fluido e intuitivo molto semplice e veloce. Review Source CJ Carol J. Enrolled Agent Financial Services Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Game Changer" May 24, 2022 5.0 Pros I bought Abbyy to use as an OCR for volunteer work but it turned out to be so much more. It’s become my default PDF viewer as well. I love the ability to add and delete pages to any PDF. Cons I really haven’t found anything I’m not happy with. Alternatives considered [Adobe Acrobat Reader](https://www.capterra.com/p/170833/Acrobat-Reader-DC/) Reason for choosing ABBYY FineReader PDF It had great reviews for its OCR capabilities. Review Source MD Michael D. Minister Religious Institutions Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Love and disappointment " June 1, 2022 5.0 Saves me a ton of time as I write and blend tests Pros Ease of merging a variety of texts with each other Cons I own and use one copy at my church. I’ve bought a second copy to use on my home computer. I have as yet been able to down load either copy. Really pisses me off Review Source RH Ricky H. Engineer Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "Alternate of Adobe Acrobat PDF" June 10, 2024 4.0 Pros Its OCR is easy to use and powerful. File can be previewed before finalizing. Cons We cannot edit the file in Mac in a single subscription Review Source SA Serge A. chercheur Higher Education Used the software for: 2+ years ### "une certaine déception après l'achat de la version 16" December 26, 2022 4.0 Pros j'appréciais la qualité de la version 15, mais je ne trouve pas d'amélioration de qualité dans la reconnaissance de texte pour la version 16 Cons j'espérais que la version 16 permettrait la reconnaissance du hindi et je suis déçu en ce qui concerne le russe accentué. Review Source NC Nicholas C. Consultant Environmental and Occupational Physician Military Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "First Time ABBYY User very satisfied" May 24, 2022 4.0 Trnsmission of historical data to end-users who would not have otherwise benefitted from their availability in digital format. Pros Straightforward to purchase and download . Once document scanning activated easy to call up Word formatted result. Especially when scanning old typescript on original documents (1950s) essential for user to check that words have transposed exactly as sometimes they do not because of typeface quality on original document(s). Cons Usage all fairly straightforward though I have no comparator - this is the first scan and convert software I have used . Perhaps a little cheaper to purchase in future ? Third World countries often rely on typewritten historical documents for many purposes and a cheaper version would be a boon there. Reason for choosing ABBYY FineReader PDF Recommended by another military person with a similar requirement. Review Source NC Natalia C. Human Resources Consultant Human Resources Used the software for: 2+ years ### "An indispensable program for my work" October 13, 2018 5.0 Pros A significant part of my work is office routine - working with documents, processing files of candidates for a particular position. FineReader is helping me out with text recognition. I do not know what to do without it. It saves a lot of time, while the finished text almost does not have to edit. Cons The program consumes a lot of resources. Because of this, I did not immediately understand why my computer began to work more slowly. Partially solved the problem like this: disabled autoload with Windows. Review Source CG Cristina G. Graduate student Higher Education Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Great for editing scanned readings" November 9, 2021 4.0 Pros OCR and image editing for scanned documents is accurate and can also be manually edited Cons Sometimes will add two layers of text over image Review Source Response from ABBYY Software House November 30, 2021 Thank you for sharing your feedback and for the great review. We are happy to hear about your positive experience. Subscribe to our blog for tips, trends, and use cases to boost your document productivity even more! https://pdf.abbyy.com/blog/ Ángel Enrique M. Comunicaciones y Redes Sociales Research Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Nice tool to scan and edit printed files" May 23, 2018 4.0 It helpped me to digitalize a large book and convert it to a PDF file and helped me to take digital quotations Pros It is really accurate and allows to scan and edit big printed files such as books or large documents Cons Pretty expensive, but you can still find some promotions (but less acurate versions) when buying digital scanners Review Source VR Verified Reviewer CEO Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Abbyy Finereader provides great recognition and resources, but lacks some agility measures." April 10, 2018 4.0 Great recognition, very good with foreign language processing, easily implemented. Pros Finereader is fairly easy to configure and learn how to be a capture pro. It provides as many station processing engines as you need, up and until you hit an annual click amount per page. Cons They are not the cheapest in the industry on a per-page/per-year basis. And, although the software scales well for recognition processes, Finereader lacks a lot of the muscle tools for the conversion and processing of other document digitization needs. (Kofax Capture, PSI-Capture, Ephesoft being better examples at document conversion operations). Review Source DP Dave P. Owner Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Recent tactic of 'buy annually' I find v.poor" June 23, 2023 5.0 Long term user, quite happy with the product until this latest release.Now looking for an alternative Pros Ease of use and quality and accuracy of OCR Cons New tactic of annual charge to use the product I bought n years ago.Complaint didn't even warrant a reply Review Source AEI Ana Elisa I. English teacher E-Learning Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Abby review" December 14, 2023 5.0 Pros Very practical and easy to use, in that ir can help me convert PDF files into DOC files easily. Cons Too many features to handle and get the hang of it Review Source DA Donald A. President Computer Hardware Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Great for OCR" June 23, 2023 5.0 I tried a competitive product before ABBYY for OCR, and I found that product did not work as quickly or reliably. So I turned to ABBYY, and I have been very satisfied. Pros Does a good job of OCR on multiple files in the background while I can use Acrobat on other files Cons I have no complaints for my usage with OCR. Review Source RC Randal C. President Publishing Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Both good and bad features." December 23, 2022 4.0 Mostly use it for OCR. Pros It is fast and accurate and easy to use. Cons They refuse to include WordPerfect among the software to which it will output files. Reason for choosing ABBYY FineReader PDF I didn't. Switched from [OmniPage Server](https://www.capterra.com/p/183671/OmniPage-Server/) I still use OmniPage alongside this software. Review Source JG Jeff G. Owner / Facilitator Management Consulting Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Relieved and pleased" November 9, 2021 5.0 Very relieved and happy. It is saving me a lot of time. Pros I am able to capture my old documents (1980s-90s) and turn them into usable information for current clients. This is a very big time saver for me. Cons Sometimes the OCR doesn't get all the information accurately. Editing can be difficult and I suspect its because I am not completely familiar with the product, which means that there needs to be an easier way to learn the product. Reason for choosing ABBYY FineReader PDF It seemed trustworthy for the price. Review Source Response from ABBYY Software House November 30, 2021 Thank you for sharing your feedback and for the great review. We are happy to hear about your positive experience. Subscribe to our blog for tips, trends, and use cases to boost your document productivity even more! https://pdf.abbyy.com/blog/ CI Cuauhtémoc I. Advisor Education Management Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Mi experiencia Abbyy" June 26, 2023 4.0 Edición de texto Pros Velocidad y precisión al convertir textos de un formato a otro Cons No, está completo para mis necesidades, consistentes básicamente en edición de texto de PDF a Word, para efectos de mi trabajo Review Source Similar Products Featured ## Related categories [PDF Editor](https://www.capterra.com/pdf-editor-software/)[PDF](https://www.capterra.com/pdf-software/)[Document Management](https://www.capterra.com/document-management-software/) ## Send me user reviews about this product ### Fill out the form and we'll send a list of the top-rated software based on real user reviews directly to your inbox.