The undisputed OCR champion — its text recognition accuracy beats every competitor, including Acrobat. At $99/year it's cheaper than Adobe while delivering best-in-class results for scanned documents.
If you regularly work with scanned documents or need to digitize paper records, FineReader is the only tool worth buying. PCMag gave it Editors' Choice specifically for OCR, and G2 users back that up — it's not even close.
“No other productivity app quite rivals ABBYY FineReader's combination of document comparison, optical character recognition (OCR), and PDF editing features, let alone puts them into as slick an interface.”
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“If you need advanced OCR editing to create searchable text from scanned images, go straight to the former.”
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“Best for OCR and digitizing documents: FineReader PDF — For industry leading optical character recognition (OCR) to turn scans into editable documents.”
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“ABBYY FineReader PDF Scanner & OCR app has automatic document-boundary detection, as well as annotation tools for redacting sensitive information and signing documents. It's also exceptional for multi-language support, with the ability to detect around 200 languages.”
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