Adobe alternative
Choose FineReader as Adobe® Acrobat® replacement
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.
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Why millions of users rely on FineReader PDF
If you are looking for an affordable PDF tool with all the basic capabilities as Adobe® Acrobat®, FineReader PDF is the obvious choice to empower your daily work with documents.
That is not all. FineReader PDF offers a lot more benefits. Discover its vast document productivity capabilities.
Customers stories
"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
"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."
Martin Pipek
Director of the IT Department in Hradec Králové branch
"I use Abbyy FineReader as a replacement for Adobe Acrobat Pro, simply because the extensive values that FineReader PDF has. I used it for professional and daily personal use. ABBYY FineReader PDF has many languages choices, accurate OCR and intuitive interface which make it easy to use."
Stephan Dharma
Network Analyst, SoCal Office Technolgies
"We love ABBYY FineReader PDF. We receive price lists in a PDF format which we formerly had to copy and paste pieces of information to Excel. With FineReader PDF we were able to convert the same document to Excel in under 5 minutes! The time we are saving more than compensates for the price of the software. The ROI was immediate!"
Gloria Coleman
Consultant, Smartwyre
What makes FineReader PDF a practical replacement to Adobe® Acrobat®
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!
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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A practical Adobe® Acrobat® alternative
6 things about FineReader PDF you may especially like when thinking about replacing Adobe® Acrobat®.
Available options
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
Automate digitization and conversion routines
5,000 pages/month, 2 cores
5,000 pages/month, 2 cores
Compare documents in different formats
For organizations
Volume licensing
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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