Choose ABBYY FineReader as Adobe® Acrobat® Replacement
ABBYY 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.
| FineReader PDF (for Windows) | Acrobat Pro DC | |
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| Interact with PDFs | ||
| View, interact, and comment on PDF content from your computer, mobile device, or web browser |
excl.web browser |
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| Access, edit, and store in your Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, and Microsoft OneDrive accounts |
excl. Box |
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| Compare two versions of a PDF to review all differences | ||
| Create PDFs | ||
| Convert documents and images to PDF files | ||
| Create PDFs from any application that prints | ||
| Create, protect, and send PDFs in popular Microsoft 365 apps for Windows | ||
| Combine multiple documents and file types into one PDF file | ||
| Create a password-protected PDF | ||
| Automatically fix photos of documents to remove backgrounds and adjust perspective | ||
| Create and export PDFs on your mobile device |
using FineReader PDF Mobile |
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| Turn scanned paper documents into instantly searchable and editable PDFs with fonts that match the original | ||
| Convert and validate PDFs for compliance with ISO standards like PDF/A and PDF/X |
Validation not supported, conversion only to PDF/A supported |
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| Edit PDFs | ||
| Edit PDF text and images with full-page paragraph reflow | ||
| Turn PDFs into editable Microsoft Word, Excel, or PowerPoint files | ||
| Insert, delete, rotate, and reorder pages in a PDF | ||
| Split a PDF by extracting one or multiple pages | ||
| Add bookmarks, headers, numbering, and watermarks | ||
| Permanently remove hidden sensitive information in PDFs | ||
| Redact to permanently remove visible information in PDFs | ||
| Share and sign | ||
| Add comments to PDFs with a full suite of commenting tools including text editing, highlighter, and sticky notes | ||
| Digitally sign, certify, and verify documents | ||
| Turn paper or Word docs into fillable PDF forms |
manually |
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| Mark PDFs with stamps, such as “approved” or “draft” | ||
| Additional features | ||
| OCR Editor: Manual adjustment of Recognition areas detection, scans and photos pre-processing, Customize recognition for specific tasks, Set up import and export options, OCR Project | ||
| Recognize multi-language documents | ||
| Text comparison of image-only PDFs and document scans | ||
Why millions of users rely on FineReader PDF
If you`re looking for an affordable PDF tool with all the basic capabilities of Adobe® Acrobat®, FineReader PDF is the obvious choice to empower your daily work with documents.
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Includes ABBYY's renowned OCR with a standardized workflow for any type of PDF
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Stephan DharmaNetwork Analyst, SoCal Office Technologies
I use ABBYY FineReader as a replacement for Adobe Acrobat Pro, simply because of the extensive value that FineReader PDF has. I use it for professional and daily personal use.
Reza MotalebpourGeneral Manager, Ingwe Immigration Inc.
We are a legal services firm and deal with PDFs 90%. We submit all our applications online in PDF to the government portal. We are currently using ABBYY FineReader as an alternative to Acrobat DC.
Gloria ColemanConsultant, Smartwyre
We love ABBYY FineReader PDF. We receive price lists in a PDF format, from which we formerly had to copy and paste pieces of information into Excel. With FineReader PDF, we were able to convert the same document to Excel in under 5 minutes!
Antonina PasztetnikTax Accountant, Krigsman Partners
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.
Martin PipekDirector of the IT Department in Hradec Králové branch
Many of our employees who work with complicated documents say they couldn’t already imagine their work without FineReader because it saves a lot of time and relieves them from tedious routine.
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Available options of FineReader PDF for Windows
For individuals
Edit, protect, and collaborate on PDFs
Create and convert PDFs
Digitize paper documents and scans with OCR
Corporate
Edit, protect and collaborate on PDFs
Create and convert PDFs
Digitize paper documents and scans with OCR
Optimize digitization and conversion routines
5,000 pages/month*, 2 cores
5,000 pages/month*, 2 cores
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For business
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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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