# Page 4 | ABBYY FineReader PDF Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Page 4 - Is ABBYY FineReader PDF the right PDF Editor solution for you? Explore 427 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 (427) 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 4 - Reviews of ABBYY FineReader PDF ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 76-100 of 427 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use Jelena U. Owner, CEO Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Powerfull tool for document archiving, document conversion, OCR and digitalization." May 17, 2018 5.0 If you need to work with documents, this is a great tool for recognition, digitalization and conversion. Price is high and it uses high resources on a computer. If you have a high volume of documents to work with, this is a great tool. Pros Abbyy FineReader support for almost all languages is impressive. We use many different languages, so it is very important for us to have a tool that can recognize well. It is easy to use, with the simplified interface, one can work fast, through materials. FineReader can export to different types which is also a great function. Convert document formats and make them searchable, from scanned documents, screenshots or images to pdfs and html. It is very good for creating new documents from multiple files, which can be imported in one project then exported to a new file. Cons The price is fairly high for those who don't have many documents. It crashes sometimes while scanning documents with older scanners or when given more demanding tasks, like automatic scan of multiple pages. If the scan is lower quality, or font is small, there are some mistakes that need to be fixed manualy, which can be time consuming. Review Source Ouattara B. Telecom Technician Telecommunications Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "ABBYY Fine Reader is a great tool for converting image and pdf files" January 4, 2023 5.0 I use it very often to convert pdf files into an editable document. But, once, I used it to digitize a document, of 300 pages, which I had in paper format. It allowed me to faithfully reconstruct the document, in an editable version; and all this, collecting it in a single pdf file. This software is awesome. Pros A software that has largely proven itself. The king of file conversion, and making it editable. And now that they have integrated AI, it becomes even more extraordinary. If you have a pdf, image, or paper file, not yet scanned, that you want to transform into an editable digital version, don't look any further, use ABBYY Fine Reader. And it can do the reverse. The OCR technology used is excellent, even if sometimes you have to use the keyboard (it depends on the quality of the document to be converted). Fine Reader is an excellent tool that makes it easy to process files that were thought impossible to process. Cons For the moment, I have no complaints about this tool, it suits me perfectly. Review Source MH Mustafa H. IT Engineer Retail Used the software for: 2+ years ### "The Perfect PDF editor" September 21, 2021 5.0 I like many features in this pdf editor, maybe the most practical one is the after scan work like consolidating all the documents in one pdf file, rearrage them, flip if needed, change orientation, then just save the fantastinc result. Pros A wonderful work on pdf like: - Editing scanned documents - OCR and converting scanned documents to word or Excell - Consolidating files Cons I would like the OCR to work better on Arabic language like it's working perfectly on English and French, one other thing is Excell may also need some improvements, maybe it's already done on the latest version. Alternatives considered [Foxit PDF Reader](https://www.capterra.com/p/175376/ConnectedPDF/)[Infix](https://www.capterra.com/p/191322/Infix/) Switched from [Adobe Acrobat Reader](https://www.capterra.com/p/170833/Acrobat-Reader-DC/)[Foxit PDF Reader](https://www.capterra.com/p/175376/ConnectedPDF/) I fond Abbyy fine reader more efficient Review Source RS Ranmses S. Alumni Education Management Used the software for: 2+ years ### "ABBY is the greatest but needs to improve in some features." December 14, 2023 5.0 I really loved all the capabilities of ABBY. I strongly recommend it. Pros OCR, PDF, tools for editing and creating. Cons There's no dark mode, I still miss this feature. Review Source Rafael O. Personal Use Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Best OCR and PDF processing tool I've found" December 23, 2022 5.0 I scan old books (XIX century), old magazines, and old PDFs and generate Facsimile PDF with OCR and MRC compression for muy own usage and if the originals are out of rights, put in archive.org or similar places. Pros It works flawlessly from scanned images or old PDF, MRC compression is impressive and OCR functionality is the best I've found. Cons Each operation done "beeps" (and cannot be disabled), sometimes it is a little bit stubborn when processing an image (you undo it, and next time I see the image, has gone to previous wrong status), but all of those things happens so little that does not affect to the reliability of the software. Review Source Josip L. Sales Manager Retail Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "OCR that works!" July 20, 2019 5.0 Pros ABBYY FineReader is a leader in OCR software and that means that their OCR is the best. It can perform character recognition in any language. I am amazed by all the functions that this piece of software has but one thing is so cool and I use it almost every day to help me organize papers in my office. That is "Hot Folder" - every time you add some document into the desired folder it automatically converts it for you into any type of document you want. It can be editable PDF, Word or any other combination you would ever want. It can do it! Text is recognized very well and without any errors almost every time. Cons Sometimes it is struggling with some special letters from foreign languages like Cyrillic or some letters like čćšđž and many times I found that those are recognized wrong. Also, it tends to keep layout and formatting as the original document but sometimes it doesn't work well. Also, when you are trying to manually select area for the recognition it can be very hard and tiring to do all that manually because the software didn't recognize page properly. Most of the times that is not needed but when you are shooting or scanning in lower resolutions be prepared for that. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer director Management Consulting Used the software for: 2+ years ### "slow" May 24, 2022 2.0 Pros convertying pdf to excel. pretty good, but not perfect Cons way to slow to open pdf file. in converting to pdf and save file, it does not take the file name and put into title. you have do do this manually. the tital is what is displayed at top of screen when pdf opened, not the file name. Switched from [Adobe Acrobat Reader](https://www.capterra.com/p/170833/Acrobat-Reader-DC/) adobe increased the price too much and switched to monthly subscription service. Review Source Netram M. Customer Service Management Financial Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Fantastic PDF files reader and editor software." December 1, 2022 4.0 Overall I am happy with this PDF reader application, User interface is really simple and straightforward in terms of features. Pros ABBYY FineReader is a fantastic application while working with PDF files. I can read, edit, merge in PDF files. the best thing that I like is inbuilt OCR functionalities, it changed my PDF file into an editable format so that I can use text in ms word. Cons Before switching to ABBYY finereader I was using adobe acrobat for all my PDF purpose after switching into this I found some features missing like digital signature, page arrangement and missing app from my windows app store. Switched from [Adobe Acrobat](https://www.capterra.com/p/251329/Adobe-Acrobat-DC/) Due to cost of application. Review Source Nicolas M. Technical Engineer Printing Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "So easy and cheep : you buy it once and don't need to waste an annual fee" November 11, 2021 5.0 I use it when I need to edit a pdf, optimize the size of my pdf (keeping the quality and improving the OCR), delete add or organize the pages : it's my all-in-one tool for my pdf files. Pros Easy, fast, good quality of OCR, light pdf size : all what you need. Cons Sometimes difficult to update on Windows PC. But rather good anyway. Switched from [Adobe Acrobat](https://www.capterra.com/p/251329/Adobe-Acrobat-DC/) For the price and the OCR options. 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/ Halimatun Z. IT Manager Accounting Used the software for: 2+ years ### "The best for PDF editor" October 25, 2021 5.0 Pros ABBYY FineReader PDF has saves me countless hours of time of data entry. I can simply scanned the physical document and change the form to digital and running the OCR tools to make the text on the document editable. The OCR tools is the best i have tried and it can read the text perfectly even when the text is disoriented. Cons Some of the font can't be read by the software, especially for an Arabic font. It is also happen with a custom font and the software won't work well with this type of text. Other think that i hope they can improve is the licensing. The license is install on the computer, and it is not easy to transfer the license to other computer. Review Source EP Erick P. Consultant Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Hands down the best PDF editor available for MS Windows" December 23, 2022 5.0 Pros So easy to use, install and deploy in our organization Cons licensing is a little cumbersome. on company workgroups, licensing issues such as the same license installed on more systems that allowed, should include some kind of report usage (license number, ip address, netbios machine name) Alternatives considered [PDFescape](https://www.capterra.com/p/209932/PDFescape/) Reason for choosing ABBYY FineReader PDF Price, performance with over 100-page documents and ease of use. No bloatware included. Switched from [Adobe Acrobat Reader](https://www.capterra.com/p/170833/Acrobat-Reader-DC/) Price, performance with over 100-page documents and ease of use. No bloatware included. Review Source LA Luis A. IT Manager Retail Used the software for: 2+ years ### "a Finreader User since Version 12" June 23, 2023 5.0 Pros Very easy to useIntuitiveSupport are very helpful and friendlyWide range of featuresEach version is better than the last Cons I don't like the subscription model and was sad to see it implemented. Review Source RC Reshmi C. Software Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "simple software that makes everyday work easy!" July 30, 2022 4.0 It's great and worth the money. I wish I found this tool earlier. As a software engineer it's great to have a tool which can handle all the basic document editing functionalities. It also helps in managing all documents in one place. Pros My favourite features include the electronic signature, merge, and compression tools. Adding signatures to documents is very simple and intuitive, and the signatures look realistic and neat. Since I don't have to physically sign and scan the paperwork, this makes my job as a software engineer easier. Additionally, a lot of websites need papers of a specific size, and sending smaller documents is often simpler. For that, the compression tool is fairly helpful. Additionally, I can use the merging tool to reorganise the contents if necessary after combining numerous documents into a single PDF. I also like the OCR tool. Cons I don't have any major complaints about this software. The only minor issue is that sometimes it doesn't recognise characters correctly in scanned documents. But since it's mostly accurate it's manageable. Review Source AL Annette L. Owner Consumer Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Very good program. A little expensive," November 9, 2021 5.0 Customers with large typing orders can be eased by scanning typed material and making corrections rather than typing the complete document. Pros I like the fact that it can be used to scan files to MS Word or PDF. Cons I am disappointed that when scanning to Word the program will most times require a line by line check of the document for errors, whereas scanning to PDF does not need corrections. Reason for choosing ABBYY FineReader PDF It came free with my first computer several years ago and I have used it ever since. Review Source Response from ABBYY Software House November 30, 2021 Dear User, thank you for sharing your feedback and for the great review. We are sorry to hear about your issues 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. JH Jamie H. Translator Translation and Localization Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Great tool, well worth the expense" November 9, 2021 5.0 I would recommend ABBYY to anyone and I plan to always keep my license active. Pros I use ABBYY on a daily basis to perform OCR, edit PDFs, combine PDFs, etc. I don't think I could function without it! The OCR works pretty well and helps me estimate word counts on all my documents, and combining PDFs has become essential as well. Cons I was hesitant to spend the money upfront at first, but I can see now that it was completely worth it. 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/ VR Verified Reviewer Responsable de Marketing Online y Ecommerce Cosmetics Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Una Gran herramienta para trabajar los PDF" November 14, 2022 5.0 Pros Es un magnÍfico editor PDF, llevo utilizandolo durante mucho tiempo y es fantástica su capacidad de edición.. su tecnología OCR funciona perfectamente. Me gusta mucho tambien la posibilidad de comparar documentos que tienen diferentes formatos y que te permita colaborar y aprobar archivos PDF. .¡¡Plenamente recomendable !! Cons No hay nada negativo que pueda mencionar de este producto, me encnata Review Source Alvaro M. Account Manager Utilities Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Scan, OCR, Edit!" July 17, 2018 5.0 Powerful OCR software for both PC and Mac! Works offline, and can do the job in batches hassle-free. Pros I've been using Abbyy Finereader for about a decade now (since I stumbled upon it with a friend who digitized a lot of his readings). Abbyy is a powerful OCR software! I say powerful, because it captures nearly everything you throw at it, JPG, PDF... and if you're lucky, even handwritten notes are captures (often as image, but sometimes as text too!). It allows to import directly to Microsoft word for text editing. It even mimics the original scanned document in terms of the page layout and text sizes. Very useful for digitizing your existing documents (which you do not have a digital copy of). Heck, you can even scan and OCR an entire book! (copyrights apply, of course). Another good thing for me.... I can use if offline! Modern OCR apps require you to go online (which I cannot always be given the nature of my work and travels). Cons Now there are many other alternatives to using ABBYY as an OCR software, and most come as a free service (e.g., Google, Dropbox). It is even made easier now due to the proliferation of mobile phones. Scan a document via mobile phone, then use the online services for OCR, all for free now. Review Source SS Shaayaan S. Principal Solutions Engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Best Software on the Market--Would Like to See More Complexity " December 23, 2022 5.0 Pros It's reliable. Often, I will throw things at it--like converting a DJVU to PDF and then OCR and it just works.I would like to see more complex features like this: \[SENSITIVE CONTENT\] Cons Tutorials and documentation. For example, it was confusing initially why the OCR editor is separate from the reader or atleast why it shows separately on my OS. Review Source EGM Erwin Geovanny M. Propietario Judiciary Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Reconocedor de texto " November 7, 2022 5.0 muy buena, es mi mejor opción para reconocimiento de texto Pros me encanta la facilidad con la que se puede usar la interfaz del programa Cons no me gusta que si el documento escaneado o reonocido esta un poco borroso, el texto se reconoce erroneamente y hay que editarlo, además, cuando hay imagenes se superponen al texto o se mezclan en cuadros de texto y eso dificulta la edición Review Source L.P. H. owner Graphic Design Used the software for: 2+ years ### "My to go to PDF reader" December 22, 2021 5.0 I am able to easily convert my documents into PDF. Pros All the features in Abby FineReader PDF are the best in the market and easy to use even for someone that is not computer savvy. Cons There are no features that I find missing in this great software and integrating this software into my business was not difficult at all. Reason for choosing ABBYY FineReader PDF I chose ABBYY FineReader over the alternatives because I found it easy to use with more features. Review Source JP Juan P. Paralegal Alternative Dispute Resolution Used the software for: 2+ years ### "A must app for any professional" December 14, 2023 5.0 I really love the app. It is my favorite productivity app hands down. Pros It is a high quality productivity app. It has a lot of awesome features to process many different kind of file formats, especially PDFs. I have been using it since 2014, and it is my #1 productivity app. Cons As a Mac user, I would love the app to be compatible with AppleScript for automatization purposes. Previous verions of the software (FineReader OCR Pro), is compatible with AppleScript. Review Source MA Michael A. Owner Religious Institutions Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Great OCR!" December 14, 2023 5.0 Overall, I have had a good relationship with the software. I upgraded to a newer version to get the ability to OCR Old German Script. While not as accurate as English, it still does probably 99% accuracy on a clean page. Pros ABBYY is simply the best OCR software that I have tried, overall. The broad range of languages and the ability to straighten up crooked lines is very amazing. I have put some very poor quality page images through and ABBYY did excellent work of making something out of them. No miracles, of course, but very good. Cons A few times I have had the software lock up while doing a big OCR job (like an 800-page book). Also, I do not like having to do subscription service; I prefer buying the software outright because I am not a high volume user. Switched from [Adobe Creative Cloud](https://www.capterra.com/p/48969/Adobe-Creative-Cloud/) ABBYY's OCR is simply better than Acrobat, hands down. But for general PDF editing, Acrobat has many more options than ABBYY. Review Source JG Jason G. Assistive Technologist Education Management Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Highly accurate PDF converter" November 9, 2021 5.0 Pros I've been using FineReader since version 2.0. The product is excellent for converting scanned PDFs to Word for accessibility markup. FineReader also does batch conversions which saves a lot of time. Cons Manual OCR editing is relatively slow compared to earlier versions. However, this is perhaps because of more tools. 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/ CH Chris H. Founder Legal Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "ABBYY FineReader Pro" December 14, 2023 5.0 Excellent Product, been using it for years. Since FineReader 4 Pros Ease of use, Accuracy, and export options Cons Licensing model for reinstalls is annoying Review Source VR Verified Reviewer ABR E-Learning Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "I recommend ABBY" June 26, 2023 5.0 Pros ABBYY Finereader is one of the best scanning and OCR programs.I really like the text recognition because it is very efficient. Cons What I don't like about ABBY is the fact that it switches the scan mode to OCR automatically when I'm trying to scan multiple images. Review Source Talk to a Capterra advisor for free and get results within 15 minutes.