# Page 6 | ABBYY FineReader PDF Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Page 6 - 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 6 - Reviews of ABBYY FineReader PDF ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 126-150 of 428 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use EP Emre P. Lecturer Writing and Editing Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "ABBYY fine reader is one of the best in the market. But it is limited on Macos." December 14, 2023 5.0 My experience with the Abbyy fine reader has been generally positive, and ocr performance is key for me. In this way, scanning the texts that were sent as photos and making them readable with e-reader devices made my life much easier. I can even say that abbyy fine reader played a significant role in increasing my productivity. Pros Its ocr features are one of my favorites. I think no other ocr reader can beat the abbyy fine reader's ocr performance. Cons The fact that its "inverting color option" is not available on Macos bothers me quite a lot. That's why I had to return to other applicatons. Switched from [Adobe Acrobat Reader](https://www.capterra.com/p/170833/Acrobat-Reader-DC/) Abbyy fine reader's ocr performance. Abbyy fine reader's ocr performance encouraged me to make a change. As I mentioned above, the ocr feature is definitely a key feature to make photographed texts readable with the e-reader. Review Source TB Theodoros B. Chief Interpreter and Translator Translation and Localization Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Highest-quality OCR on the market" December 14, 2023 5.0 Pros \- The best OCR I have encountered so far - Innovative "Document compare" feature - User-friendly OCR editor for manual corrections - Multiple format export options Cons \- No full-text indexing for fast searches - Removing the "Low-confidence character highlight" in the exported documents is impractical and cumbersome Switched from [Iris](https://www.capterra.com/p/170110/Iris/)[Adobe Acrobat](https://www.capterra.com/p/251329/Adobe-Acrobat-DC/) ABBYY FineReader provides far superior OCR Review Source NF Nathan F. Regional Sales Manager - California Construction Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Converts from PDF to Excle seamlessly" December 26, 2022 5.0 Been using the product for about 5 years and Acrobat has neve performed as well (which is why we are using Abbyy) Pros The ability to convert just what I need in a document without all of the extemperaneous informaiton that is not critical to my work product Cons The inability to recognize a poor scan with dust as not being characters Switched from [Adobe Acrobat](https://www.capterra.com/p/251329/Adobe-Acrobat-DC/) Does not have good OCR capablilites Review Source PF Paula F. Attorney Legal Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Does everything I need" May 24, 2022 5.0 Pros I like how easy it is to use - I'm able to edit and add my signature without problems - can merge documents easily and organize within a file as well Cons Converting to/from PDF is probably the slowest function Review Source DC Donald C. Retired Writing and Editing Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Excellent Accuracy in OCR Work" December 23, 2022 5.0 The benefit is in the ability to do huge amount of work in a short time! Pros The ability to see immediately the OCR outcome Cons The new versions always take awhile to get used to it Review Source AG Anne G. Project Manager Translation and Localization Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Review of ABBYY FindeReaer PDF" May 29, 2022 5.0 Pretty good. Pros Accurate OCR result and the language selection. Cons Sometimes due to the poor PDF quality, the text recognition capability becomes limited. Review Source NF Narcso F. advogado Legal Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Bom " April 21, 2023 4.0 O sistema legal brasileiro só aceita o formato PDF, por isso a necessidade de um editor PDF Pros A facilidade de editar texto PDF mas caro a assinatura Cons O painel é bem complicado, a distribuição de tarefas é pouco amigável Switched from [Microsoft Word](https://www.capterra.com/p/227146/Microsoft-Word/) pelo custo Review Source AT Andrew T. Managing Director Information Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Great product" May 22, 2024 5.0 Excellent product which allows our company to extract data from documents quickly. Pros Flexible templates for reading data from similar documents. Cons Inability to draw a table with columns and than analysis the table without losing the columns. Review Source CD Csaba D. Attorney Legal Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Great job" December 23, 2022 5.0 Nice, great software, i think this is the best on the market in the last decade Pros Easy, fast, strong pdf recognize, converter software we use it for convert from pdf to ms word, very accurate in any language, I have used it for more Than ten years Cons None there is no bug, and npbproblem with it Review Source Vincenzo P. Owner Translation and Localization Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Easy, yet powerful" December 23, 2022 5.0 Pros It's really easy to use and the OCR is quite effective, any other OCR tool is this easy. Cons The output on Word can be improved, sometimes is a bit off. Review Source Liam S. Chemical Engineer Packaging and Containers Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Best OCR software " June 23, 2023 5.0 Pros OCR is most impactful. It allowed me to scan renderable PDFs too Cons Nothing much. Just a little slower than Adobe to open. Switched from [Adobe Acrobat Reader](https://www.capterra.com/p/170833/Acrobat-Reader-DC/) Better OCR capabilities Review Source CG Christos G. Veterinarian Veterinary Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Excellent product " December 14, 2023 5.0 Pros OCR, document management, file editing and search trough text Cons difficult to delete texts or parts of the text Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Senior Manager Accounting Used the software for: 2+ years ### "PDF powerhouse" January 19, 2023 5.0 Pros ABBYY's OCR engine for document comparison has been a game changer for our business, delivering high quality results consistently. The ancillary screenshot reader tool is an underrated business tool for general daily productivity in admin tasks and integrates seamlessly into existing manual processes. Cons Overall "heavy" UI with too many features crammed into the tool panels. The PDF editing UI could be greatly improved to be brought closer to Microsoft Office suite style. While being a powerful document comparison tool, some of the processing could be optimised when benchmarked against competitor algorithms yielding similar output results. Review Source JW Jarett W. MD/MSC. E-Learning Used the software for: 2+ years ### "It's fine - but nothing like PDF Element, Nitro for handling large files, OCR is ok" June 29, 2022 2.0 I liked the customer support for transferring my license from PC to Mac and back. Other than that, I only used it as an OCR engine until I found a better product. Can't draw (e.g. like in Notability), cross-platform is sub-par, the UI is not so easy. Other than OCR, I had no reason to use it. Pros OCR was useful for conversion (but the engine is a bit outdated) Cons The UI is non-intuitive, can't handle large PDFs (e.g. writing notes in a book), no collaboration, expensive for students - waste of money Reason for choosing ABBYY FineReader PDF At the time, there were not many great OCR pdf software products - now that there is, it has been so long since I have used it, when I opened it up, it was terribly outdated. Switched from [Adobe Acrobat Reader](https://www.capterra.com/p/170833/Acrobat-Reader-DC/) Adobe is overpriced and over-rated Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Exp. Senior Consultant Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Need to take paper to digital? Use THIS." May 2, 2019 5.0 I implemented it on my father's work place. They run a medical facility, and receive much documentation in paper. Being able to digitalize that paperwork in a pre-automated way has saved them a lot of time and effort, inceasing efficiancy, A LOT. Pros Have lots of documentation that needs to be digitalized? This is the tool you're looking for. Cons Handwriting recognition could improve. Some spanish characters are not well recognized, but this has been enhanced over the years. Review Source MC Michael C. Owner Entertainment Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Great product " December 23, 2022 4.0 It does what we need Pros Fast, accurate. Okay support. I’d like to see pricing more customer friendly. Cons Subscription sucks , I favor purchasing. Reason for choosing ABBYY FineReader PDF Speed, accuracy Review Source Joseric M. Project Manager Utilities Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Must have for the digital transformation" March 29, 2019 5.0 Pros In our efforts since last year to move into a fully digital (paperless) office, we found that we're still far off. We still have several manual business processes that involve passing around physical paper/forms. Then we found Abby Finereader. We are using this software to scan our documents and convert some of them into a searchable PDF or the ability to use OCR technology to be able to edit the scanned documents in MS Word or Google Docs (ready for cut&paste etc). Much help also is the feature which allows us to automate our doc conversions via what is called a 'Hot Folder' This allows for scheduled and batch jobs. So just set it up, let it run while you do other things, then come back to a finished job. Lastly, I love the fact that Abby Finereader now has a client for Android use. Now we can do our work on the go, and send it direct via email or save to the cloud. Very useful for meetings and workshops outside the office. Cons To be honest, I have no gripes with Abbyy. I've been using it for a long time now and it has really improved a lot (with more features) over the years. Review Source IZ Ignacio Z. Software Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Great value for your money" December 28, 2022 4.0 Pros The accuracy of the OCR engine has been great in our use cases where we already have pdf files and we are using this software to convert them to searchable pdf files. Cons For our use case the only problem we encounter sometimes is the 5000 pages monthly limit when using the Hot Folder functionality. Some months we reach the limit and have to wait until the limit is reset. Still, it's a great price for the value it brings so it's a minor con for us. Review Source Syed Amir A. Associate Manager Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Abbyy OCR - Amazing" May 3, 2022 5.0 Overall experience has been amazing. It is one of the best OCRs in the market, better than tesseract and MODI Pros The OCR capability is amazing, works pretty well. Cons Not so easy to use, doesn't work well with handwritten documents Switched from [Tesseract](https://www.capterra.com/p/209546/Tesseract/) Because Abbyy is the best OCR available Review Source FK Faryt K. CEO Airlines/Aviation Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Faryt's review" May 22, 2024 3.0 Overall has been a good experience and has allowed us to modify docs with some difficuties. Pros Ability to edit PDF docs without too much training. Cons Not flexible with too. That would make editing very enhanced.ls like Find and Replace Switched from [Adobe Premiere Pro](https://www.capterra.com/p/233456/Adobe-Premiere-Pro/) Didn't like adobe well because was not very flexible. Review Source Jesus P. CEO/President Marketing and Advertising Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Excellent PDF OCR solution" May 2, 2019 5.0 Pros This software came bundled with my Fujitsu ScanSnap and I've been using it for over 12 years. The software is still running perfectly and converting my scans to PDF and OCR'ing them for future reference. It's been reliable throughout and it's easy to use and save file in multiple formats. Cons I don't have any cons considering this was free bundled software and it's done an excellent job. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer CEO Legal Services Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Great software with some issues" January 22, 2020 4.0 Excellent value for the money, I wish they could solve the "out of memory" issue. Pros This is an amazing piece of software for handling large amount of scanned documents. When it's working it's probably 5x-10x faster than Adobe Acrobat DC in recognizing text. Customer support is also very responsive. Cons It often runs out of memory on larger documents, regardless of how much free memory your PC has. This usually happening above 1,000 pages. I think the issue is that this is a 32bit software and cant address memory of over 4GB, but somehow Adobe could manage the same on 32bit (but of course Adobe is much slower). This could be quite annoying when you scanned in 1000+ pages and unable to save the file, not fun starting it again the scanning. We have tried the tips from customer support but it wont help. The workaround is to scan smaller documents and use Acrobat or similar to combine them. Basically you need both Acrobat and Finereader for a good setup, what is a shame cause otherwise Finereader is really great. Review Source CA Christopher A. Artist Arts and Crafts Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "ABBYY Fine trader PDF Review" July 10, 2021 5.0 My overall experience with this software is pretty good I solve a lot of works on different purposes Pros This software is very accurate and effective to read make pdfs save important files also to collaborate and merge some.docs Cons Sometimes some.features are not too clearly to use and to get all the functions you get to buy a very full version of the software and some people can't get it Switched from [Foxit PDF Reader](https://www.capterra.com/p/175376/ConnectedPDF/) Sometimes I'm just like to read and use this software Review Source US Ulf S. Medieval advicer Medical Practice Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Easy to use and good valurnorna for money" December 14, 2023 5.0 Pros Under friendly program with good design. Cons Sometimes the OCR editor takes over and the process is slowed down. Review Source DO Daltun O. Editor/Designer Publishing Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Use of Abbyy for printer copy" June 23, 2023 4.0 Pros Good optical character recognition and speed of processing. Cons Unlike Adobe, no provision for setting 'bleed' for printer Alternatives considered [Adobe Acrobat](https://www.capterra.com/p/251329/Adobe-Acrobat-DC/) Reason for choosing ABBYY FineReader PDF Easier to use Review Source Similar Products Featured ## 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.