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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! Each year, GetApp ranks the leading business apps inside the most popular categories to help people like you tackle software selection. App scores are determined by 5 factors, worth 20 points each, for a possible total of 100. Interested in the full scoring methodology?

Typically, the most important thing about a software product for individual users is how well it can perform tasks. An organization, however, must take into account other aspects of the vendor’s offer for the software, which may not relate to the software capabilities themselves.

When working with digital documents such as PDFs, people often ask how to create a digital signature and how to add digital signature to PDF. In this article we’ll consider what is a digital signature PDF can be signed with, and how to use FineReader PDF 15 to apply digital certificates, create and verify digital signatures for your documents. What is a digital signature?

An accessible PDF is a PDF document that can be read and accessed by people with disabilities, primarily low vision, but also for other cognitive impairments. A PDF document is considered accessible only if it meets a set of accessibility guidelines, and compliance is enforced by law in many regions. See why and how FineReader PDF can help. For Government publications, it is essential to make communications accessible for everyone.

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. Scan documents to FineReader PDF 15 with a mobile device This month we have not one, but two updates in the FineReader family.

Wondering why your favorite scanning app has a new name and icon? Well, we’ve got some great news for you: ABBYY FineScanner has been renamed to ABBYY FineReader PDF for Mobile and has been integrated with its desktop counterpart! Why the drastic name change, and what’s in it for you? Let’s dive in. When the first version of FineScanner released in 2012, many people were skeptical about using smartphones as scanners.

The employees at the Ministry of Industry and Technology of Republic of Turkey review and process various kinds of documents received from numerous sources. By implementing ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 as the single universal PDF and document conversion solution throughout the whole organization, the Ministry improved the efficiency of their document management workflows and significantly decreased software purchase and maintenance costs.

In 2008, we launched the first Business Card Reader, which ran on the then-popular Symbian operating system. Even so, not much has changed – paper business cards are still widely used to exchange contact information. To make your work with business cards and contacts easier, learn more about ABBYY Business Card Reader (BCR) and what it can do. Do I really need this app now?

This blog post is a long read. If you prefer watching or listening, check out this recording of ABBYY’s session during PDF Association PDFest 2020, which covers this topic. 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?

We are proud to present the newest generation of mobile scanners from ABBYY Mobile – FineScanner AI 8. Now, FineScanner will not only scan and store your documents but will also become your personal smartphone archivist. FineScanner can now automatically sort all of your photos into seven different document types, help you find specific photos using the search feature, and precisely measure your documents’ size using augmented reality.

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. So, here they are!

With this post, we conclude the overview of ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 functions that help to manipulate and rearrange your PDF documents. Enhancing visual appearance of PDF pages Cropping can enhance the visual appearance of pages in PDFs, especially scanned ones. But, how else can we improve it with FineReader PDF?