FineReader blog

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

How to easily update and edit PDFs

FineReader lets you work with any PDF as you would work with any editable document such as Microsoft® Word. With FineReader, scanned PDFs are as editable as digitally-created PDFs. Just open a PDF file and start editing: correct typos and change data or pictures directly within in a PDF, also add, delete, and rearrange pages. 1.

How To Compare Documents with FineReader

Imagine that you have received an important document, say, an agreement you need to sign with a partner. First, you need to ensure that the text on the paper is fully consistent with the mutually agreed text in the digital original. What are your options? A plausible way out is to patiently and carefully compare the two documents line by line. This process can be stressful, time-consuming and emotionally taxing...

ABBYY FineReader 14 Will Help You Level Up in 2017

ABBYY FineReader 14 is here with a bang! Your popular ABBYY FineReader is entering the New Year with new improvements. Thanks to your valuable feedback, we have been able to keep working on making our existing ABBYY FineReader 12 the best OCR experience for our customers. We have added some task-specific enhancements to the new ABBYY FineReader 14 to make your business processes run smoother, smarter, and faster in 2017 and beyond...

How ABBYY FineReader was born or the story that took place more than 20 years ago

FineReader, ABBYY’s optical character recognition (OCR) application, which now has millions of users worldwide from Antarctica to Greenland and the North Pole and takes the leading places in OCR market, turns 23 this year. That is only a little less than the age of a lesser-known ABBYY product, the Lingvo dictionary application, which happens to be the company’s first product and was discontinued (end of life) in March of 2022.

Who Uses PDF and Why?

How often do you work with PDF documents? Do you just read them or do you need to copy text fragments and make occasional corrections to the data they contain? These are some of the questions we put this summer to more than 500 employees of medium and large-sized companies. The survey revealed many interesting facts about the PDF format and how it is used in the modern office.

3 Ways To Increase Your Productivity This Summer with ABBYY FineReader

While warm sunshine and the vacation air gladden our mood and spirit, summer still remains the perfect time to increase productivity.

ABBYY FineReader Pro for Mac with Native Automation Tools

Today ABBYY has made available new ABBYY FineReader Pro for Mac with MAC OS X support and Native Automation Tools such as Batch Conversion and Screenshot Reading. Now, with the Automator tools and AppleScript commands, Mac users can easily set self-running OCR workflows, raising productivity when working with documents. Read more about fresh updates of new ABBYY FineReader Pro for Mac.

From a Simple Converter to a Complete PDF Solution

Today we are delighted to announce the worldwide launch of the new ABBYY PDF Transformer+. The product with a 10-year history and primary mission of a PDF converter has now been transformed into a radically new product that makes it possible to work with your PDF documents as if you are working in traditional text editors.