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Document digitization and PDF editing made easy. Tips, trends & use cases for higher productivity.

ABBYY FineReader PDF is 28!

There are not many software products that can boast about approaching the beginning of their fourth decade of existence on the market. Lots of pioneering software companies and their products have long gone, and they are remembered only by a handful of software history enthusiasts. Luckily, ABBYY and its FineReader are not among them.

September 8, 2021

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FineReader PDF for iOS and Android – Scan On-the-Go

Every modern smartphone is a pretty powerful computer. So why not use it as a document storage with perfect scans, online and offline text recognizer – all in your pocket. FineReader PDF for iOS and Android is a younger brother of a world-famous FineReader PDF.

July 19, 2021

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ABBYY FineReader PDF Named #1 PDF Software by Gartner’s GetApp

We’re excited to announce that ABBYY FineReader PDF placed in GetApp’s 2021 Category Leaders ranking as the #1 PDF Software product based on user ratings and reviews!

June 23, 2021

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The True Value of Volume Licensing for Organizations

There is more to gain than an increased discount by entering into a volume licensing program. Let’s look at what a volume offer for a software product usually contains, and what is important when considering an organization-wide deployment.

June 10, 2021

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Digital Signatures and How to Use Them in PDFs with FineReader PDF 15

Once people started to rely on digital document exchange, the need for a digital means to confirm and verify authenticity of the documents arose. A digital signature is an equivalent for digital documents, such as PDFs, of a wet-ink signature on paper documents.

May 18, 2021

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PDF Accessibility for Government Documents

For Government publications, it is essential to make communications accessible for everyone. That’s why countless legislations worldwide enforce the accessibility of public content, but has been overdue in many regions and will soon be reinforced. To optimize those PDF documents and scans, FineReader PDF is a valuable tool.

May 11, 2021

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FineReader PDF 15 Release 8: Scan with Mobile, Redact Using a Keyword List, and Improved Digital Signature Support

It has been about four months since the last update of ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 for Windows, and now we proudly present the next one. Meet Release 8—enhanced with new and improved features and, of course, bug fixes.

April 22, 2021

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How a Turkish Government Agency Optimized Document Workflows and Reduced Costs

The employees at the Ministry of Industry and Technology of the Republic of Turkey review and process various kinds of documents received from numerous sources. Learn how this large organization implemented ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 as the single universal PDF and document conversion solution to optimize document workflows.

March 16, 2021

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How OCR Facilitates Digital Transformation for PDFs

The topic of this blog post is how optical character recognition (OCR) technology facilitates digital transformation for (Portable Document Format) PDF documents. This may sound a bit silly at first: PDFs are already digital, one would say, what is there to transform?

February 2, 2021

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FineReader PDF 15 Release 7: New PDF editing function, command line capability, and licensing for RPA scenarios

Shortly before the winter holidays (which are, let’s be honest, going to be a bit weird this year – but still, it’s a New Year!), a new FineReader PDF 15 Release is ready for our users. We are glad we can deliver this as our little New Year’s present to you, which brings further improvements and new features that expand how to apply the software for document-related tasks and opens new ways FineReader PDF can be used.

December 22, 2020

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