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, 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 | ||
| Create PDFs from SVG format | ||
| See the full table | See the full table in 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.
Stephan Dharma
Network Analyst, SoCal Office Technologies
“I use Abbyy FineReader as a replacement for Adobe Acrobat Pro, simply because of the tremendous value that FineReader PDF offers. I use it for work and privately on a daily basis.”
Reza Motalebpour
General Manager, Ingwe Immigration Inc.
“We are a legal services company and we deal 90% with PDFs. We submit all our applications online in PDF format via the government portal. We currently use ABBYY FineReader as alternatives to Acrobat DC.”
Gloria Coleman
Consultant, Smartwyre
“We love ABBYY FineReader PDF. We receive the rate cards in PDF format and previously had to copy and paste the individual information into Excel. With FineReader PDF we are able to convert the same document to Excel in less than 5 minutes!”
Accountant, Krigsman Partners
“ABBYY FineReader gives us the flexibility we needed for the large volume of legal and tax documents sent to our office. We can quickly export documents in any format and search, edit and email them with minimal effort.”
Director of the IT Department at the Hradec Králové branch
“Many of our employees who work with complex documents say that they could no longer imagine their work without FineReader as it saves a lot of time and saves them from a boring routine.”
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