ABBYY FineReader vs. Adobe Acrobat

ABBYY FineReader

9 Reviews and Ratings

Adobe Acrobat

3,214 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
ABBYY FineReader	Score9 out of 10	N/A	ABBYY FineReader is a PDF editor that allows users to convert, edit, share, and collaborate on PDFs. FineReader also converts scanned documents into searchable PDF files.	$16 per month per user
Adobe Acrobat	Score8.8 out of 10	N/A	Adobe Acrobat DC is the current version of the well-established document / PDF management solution, part of the Adobe Document Cloud (the other part being Adobe's eSign services based on technology acquired with EchoSign in 2011).	$29.99 per month per seat

Pricing

ABBYY FineReader

Adobe Acrobat

FineReader PDF Standard for Windows: $16
per month per user
FineReader PDF Corporate for Windows: $24
per month per user
FineReader PDF for Mac®: $69
per year per user
FineReader PDF Standard for Windows: $99
per year per user
FineReader PDF Corporate for Windows: $165
per year per user

Acrobat Pro for Individuals: $19.99
per month
Acrobat Pro for Teams: $23.99
per month per user
Acrobat Studio for Individuals: $24.99
per month

Pricing Offerings
ABBYY FineReader	Adobe Acrobat
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes	Yes

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	ABBYY FineReader	Adobe Acrobat
Considered Both Products	ABBYY Verified User Chose ABBYY FineReader ABBYY FineReader is far more advanced and accurate for OCR-related tasks than Kofax Power PDF. When it comes to working with languages, other than English, ABBYY FineReader has a total advantage in all possible aspects. Editing tools in ABBYY FineReader work exceptionally well … Incentivized Helpful? Moris Mendez Ing. de Sistemas Informaticos in Legal at Corte Suprema de Justicia (Government Administration, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose ABBYY FineReader Although both have functionalities that they share, in ABBYY FineReader they are better implemented, they have a better performance, in addition to being a more intuitive and simple user that makes their learning curve relatively simple, it is as if the options I need are … Incentivized Helpful?	Adobe Bradley Pearce Managing Member in Legal at Pearce Law PLLC (Law Practice, 1-10 employees) Chose Adobe Acrobat ABBYY FineReader promises better OCR recognition, but Finereader for Mac doesn't do 1/3 of the things that Adobe Acrobat DC does. It fails to meet my needs. Readdle PDF Expert is a fine product, but still, a lightweight compared to Acrobat DC. Using PDF Expert after using … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Acrobat I have used nitro and abbyy for OCR usage and found similar results. Google Drive I've used for OCR recognition as well. From a usage point of view, I have found Acrobat to have a much more intuitive interface to manage the features I need like editing, page insertion, … Incentivized Helpful?
	Would buy again
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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	Implementation went as expected
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User Ratings
	ABBYY FineReader	Adobe Acrobat
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (3 ratings)	9.1 (481 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	9.7 (26 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	9.3 (237 ratings)
Availability	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (2 ratings)
Performance	- (0 ratings)	8.1 (8 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	7.8 (56 ratings)
Online Training	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	9.6 (9 ratings)
Configurability	- (0 ratings)	8.5 (2 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model	- (0 ratings)	6.0 (3 ratings)
Ease of integration	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (8 ratings)
Product Scalability	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (2 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	- (0 ratings)	4.0 (3 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	- (0 ratings)	5.5 (2 ratings)