Adobe alternative

The alternative PDF solution to Adobe® Acrobat®

FineReader PDF is the solution for your everyday work with PDF documents. It offers a wide variety of tools for PDF editing and collaboration at an affordable price – and combines them with ABBYY’s renowned OCR to make working with documents of any kind fast, efficient and effortless.

PDF solution

FineReader PDF is the obvious choice if you are looking for an affordable PDF tool with all the basic capabilities as Adobe® Acrobat®, to empower your daily work with documents.


A perpetual license for unlimited use.

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On premise – locally installed, even for remote offline use

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License sharing capability


Easy to use interface

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ABBYY's renowned OCR with a standardized workflow for any type of PDF

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Progressive volume discounts reaching more users for less budget

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That is not all. FineReader PDF offers a lot more benefits. Learn more about FineReader PDF’s vast document productivity capabilities.

Top reviews

"ABBYY FineReader provides us with the flexibility we need for the large volume of legal and tax documentation our office receives. We can export documents quickly to any format and search, edit and email with minimal fuss. It is an essential business product for our business."

Antonina Pasztetnik
Tax Accountant, Krigsman Partners

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Recommended by Legal Tech Publishing Buyers Guide

"ABBYY FineReader is an excellent tool for any business. It assists in completing business tasks in an efficient and effective manner as various tasks can be executed and completed within the program. Whether you have to convert documents, edit PDF’s or sign forms electronically ABBYY FineReader does this for you! An amazing product that is highly recommended."

Robert Krigsman
Principal Partner, Krigsman Partners

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What makes FineReader PDF a practical replacement to Adobe® Acrobat®

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Theodore A.

Attorney At Law Law Practice, 1-10 employees
Used the software for: 1-2 years

"Solid pdf application"

The best part of ABBYY FineReader is how when you import a scanned document to OCR, you can see it scanning before your eyes. It looks really cool!
Read the full review on Capterra website

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C David A

Lawyer Small business (Myself Only)

“Much better replacement for Adobe Acrobat DC”

Best OCR (including excellent automatically inserted headings), enormous flexibiility to make all kinds of edits, and comparison of two pdf documents works much better than Acrobat's version.
Read the full review on G2 website

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User in Real Estate

Small-Business (11-50 employees)

"Great, efficient, necessity."

ABBYY makes the task of manually entering information from PDF to excel a thing of the past. It has saved so much time, and I highly recommend for any organization that needs to convert from PDF to excel often.
Full review on G2 website

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Carlos B

Ingeniero de desarrollo de software, Mid-Market (201-500 employees)

"An all-in-one software for reading or editing PDF files"

ABBYY has a wide variety of functions for handling PDF files and it is what makes it really interesting. This editor allows you to create and export PDF files. Another characteristic that seems very convenient to me is its OCR function, which recognizes text in documents. Conversion options are also available for MS-Word, Excel or other files.
Full review on G2 website

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Theodore A.

Attorney At Law Law Practice, 1-10 employees
Used the software for: 1-2 years

"Solid pdf application"

The best part of ABBYY FineReader is how when you import a scanned document to OCR, you can see it scanning before your eyes. It looks really cool!
Read the full review on Capterra website

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C David A

Lawyer Small business (Myself Only)

“Much better replacement for Adobe Acrobat DC”

Best OCR (including excellent automatically inserted headings), enormous flexibiility to make all kinds of edits, and comparison of two pdf documents works much better than Acrobat's version.
Read the full review on G2 website

g2-review-nophoto

User in Real Estate

Small-Business (11-50 employees)

"Great, efficient, necessity."

ABBYY makes the task of manually entering information from PDF to excel a thing of the past. It has saved so much time, and I highly recommend for any organization that needs to convert from PDF to excel often.
Full review on G2 website

g2-review-nophoto

Carlos B

Ingeniero de desarrollo de software, Mid-Market (201-500 employees)

"An all-in-one software for reading or editing PDF files"

ABBYY has a wide variety of functions for handling PDF files and it is what makes it really interesting. This editor allows you to create and export PDF files. Another characteristic that seems very convenient to me is its OCR function, which recognizes text in documents. Conversion options are also available for MS-Word, Excel or other files.
Full review on G2 website

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A practical Adobe® Acrobat® alternative

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Available options

For organizations

Volume licensing

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Choose between Standard and Corporate editions and a variety of licensing options for a universal PDF tool. Benefit from progressive volume discounts, network deployment and simple license management.

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For individuals

Corporate

Edit, protect and collaborate on PDFs
Create and convert PDFs
Digitize paper documents and scans with OCR
Automate digitization and conversion routines
5,000 pages/month, 2 cores
Compare documents in different formats

Standard

Edit, protect and collaborate on PDFs
Create and convert PDFs
Digitize paper documents and scans with OCR

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