About

ABBYY, a company originating from Russia, is a leading developer of proprietary, paid optical character recognition (OCR) software, with its flagship product being ABBYY FineReader PDF. This highly acclaimed OCR and PDF tool is available across Mac, Windows, iPhone, and iPad platforms. FineReader PDF is renowned for its unmatched text accuracy, supporting an extensive 190 languages, and its core capability to convert scanned documents into editable formats such as Word, Excel, or searchable PDFs while meticulously preserving the original layout. Its comprehensive product portfolio includes a wide array of features like PDF editing, annotation, signing, creation, splitting, merging, and diverse conversion functionalities (e.g., PDF to Word, Excel, HTML, EPUB, Text, Image; Image to Text, PDF; Scan to PDF; Word to PDF). The software also incorporates AI-OCR capabilities, text detection, batch processing, and PDF protection, simplifying document processes with automated tasks. Consistently praised by reviewers for its power, accuracy, speed, and ease of use, FineReader PDF is often cited as the "best OCR software" on the market, particularly noted for its effectiveness with tables and sheets and its superior recognition of various writing systems, including Arabic. While some older versions were recognized for better file compression, the software generally requires a good amount of RAM for optimal performance. In the market, ABBYY FineReader PDF competes with other solutions such as Tesseract and PDF XChange Viewer.