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In detail

Eight feature categories

  • The OCR Editor with the recognised-text verification dialog open.

    Turn paper and scans into digital files with OCR

    Turn paper and scans into files you can file away, find again in seconds, or open and edit on the spot. The recognition underneath is ABBYY’s AI-based OCR.

  • The Convert to Microsoft Word dialog, with formatting and OCR language options.

    Create and convert PDFs

    Put all your documentation on one format. Paper and assorted file types become searchable PDFs that meet the ISO specification, and any PDF converts back out to Microsoft Word, Excel or one of more than 15 other formats whenever you need to edit or reuse it.

  • Editing text inside a PDF, with a paragraph selected on the Edit Content tab.

    Edit and organise PDFs

    At the core of FineReader PDF is ABBYY’s latest AI-based OCR technology. Digitize, retrieve, edit, protect and share documents of every kind in one workflow, and spend less time on administrative work.

  • Filling in fields on an interactive PDF form.

    Create fillable PDF forms

    Build interactive PDF forms so answers come back in a consistent shape. Assemble the fields you need, attach actions to them, revise a form you already have, or add form elements to an ordinary PDF.

  • A PDF document with comments and highlights in the margin.

    Collaborate on and approve PDFs

    Put a draft in front of the team, gather what they think, and get it signed off. The whole discussion happens in the file itself: highlight a passage, leave a comment, draw on the page.

  • Redacting sensitive details in a PDF with the protection tools.

    Protect and sign PDFs

    Reduce what you expose when a PDF is shared or stored. Sign a document and check the signatures on one you receive, black out sensitive passages for good, strip the data hiding behind the page, and decide who may open the file at all.

  • Two versions of a document side by side with the differences highlighted.

    Cross-format document comparison

    Corporate

    Quickly and reliably identify the differences between two versions of a document, even across different formats or in scans. See whether unauthorised changes were made, whether agreed edits were implemented, or whether the document changed at all.

  • The settings for a scheduled Hot Folder task, with recurrence and folder options.

    Optimise digitization and conversion routines

    Corporate

    Set a recurring conversion going once and leave it running: mixed document types in, and PDF, Microsoft Word, Excel or one of fifteen-plus other formats out. You say what happens to which folder, and it keeps happening without you.

    Automated processing with Hot Folder is limited to 5,000 pages a month and 2 cores. The limit resets every 30 days.

Working on a Mac?

FineReader PDF for Mac has its own feature list, tuned to macOS.

Features for Mac

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