ABBYY FineReader vs. IBM Datacap

ABBYY FineReader

ABBYY FineReader

9 Reviews and Ratings

IBM Datacap

IBM Datacap

11 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
ABBYY FineReader	Score 9.0 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
IBM Datacap	Score 10.0 out of 10	N/A	IBM® Datacap helps users streamline the capture, recognition and classification of business documents and extract important information. Datacap supports multiple-channel capture by processing paper documents on scanners, mobile devices, multi-function peripherals and fax. It uses natural language processing, text analytics and machine learning technologies, to automatically identify, classify and extract content from unstructured or variable documents. The software can reduce labor and paper…	N/A

Pricing

ABBYY FineReader

IBM Datacap

Editions & Modules

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

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
ABBYY FineReader	IBM Datacap
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	ABBYY FineReader	IBM Datacap
Considered Both Products	ABBYY FineReader Verified User Anonymous Chose ABBYY FineReader While Adobe Reader can identify documents and convert them to some other various formats, it cannot process the documents to identify tables for use in Excel. We only had success by letting Adobe read a file for any identifiable text but it wasn't always accurate. FineReaders … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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 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?	IBM Datacap AM Adam McKnight, PE Senior Professional Engineer Chose IBM Datacap Atlassian Confluence only stores and share documents in the cloud, whereas IBM Datacap has additional features that makes it effective to not only store and share documents, but also capture information via OCR and redact sensitive information. Incentivized Helpful? Lane Cox Marketing Director Chose IBM Datacap IBM Datacap has a strong OCR capability that makes it easy to capture, validate and submit data from other document repositories like Scanners, faxes, and mobile applications unlike Ephesoft Transact, which also lacks enterprise data capturing capabilities. Incentivized Helpful? SA Seval Aksoy Hr director Chose IBM Datacap It's easier to extract data from documents for analytics, unlike other similar platforms. Incentivized Helpful? Ben Williams Automation Developer (RPA and OCR Datacap) Chose IBM Datacap It was cheaper with a better support package offered and no price per page scanned! Incentivized Helpful?

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User Ratings
	ABBYY FineReader	IBM Datacap
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (0 ratings)	9.6 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	ABBYY FineReader	IBM Datacap
Likelihood to Recommend	The most common scenario is a need to do a high-level OCR-scan of a document followed by heavy editing. I believe that FineReader is in its own league in that regard, and there is no single reason why would someone choose an alternative soft for the purpose. Another common scenario is a need of detailed comparison of pdf documents. A massive help! Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	I would recommend IBM Datacap to all businesses and users that want to protect sensitive data from delivering to the wrong business users by redacting data based on the role of the requester. Incentivized Lane Cox Marketing Director Read full review
Pros	Read and analyze complicated documents Automatically recognize tables and charts Convert any documents into various common formats Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Ingest documents Text analysis Incentivized SA Seval Aksoy Hr director Read full review
Cons	Conversion to MS Word (formatting accuracy issues occur) Conversion to MS Excel (formatting accuracy issues occur) Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Even though IBM Datacap has enriched mobility and allows users to capture data with tablets and Smartphones, it tends to be slow and makes the devices to hang, mainly when using smartphones with outdated versions. Incentivized AM Adam McKnight, PE Senior Professional Engineer Read full review
Support Rating	No answers on this topic	Generally they are very good and reactive to our requests. if we find an issue our error they are quick to add a fix to the next release if needs be. Incentivized Ben Williams Automation Developer (RPA and OCR Datacap) Read full review
Alternatives Considered	While Adobe Reader can identify documents and convert them to some other various formats, it cannot process the documents to identify tables for use in Excel. We only had success by letting Adobe read a file for any identifiable text but it wasn't always accurate. FineReaders ability to handle hundreds of pages at once felt leaps and bounds above Adobe Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Atlassian Confluence only stores and share documents in the cloud, whereas IBM Datacap has additional features that makes it effective to not only store and share documents, but also capture information via OCR and redact sensitive information. Incentivized AM Adam McKnight, PE Senior Professional Engineer Read full review
Return on Investment	Great positive impact on productivity as it helps to avoid spending so much time scanning or editing documents Staff use the time saved with this tool on the substantive tasks of their position Our objective, being a public institution, is of a benefit to the population and not commercial, therefore everything that we add to perform efficiently and effectively, our work is always well appreciated. Incentivized Moris Mendez Ing. de Sistemas Informaticos Read full review	Increased productivity. Better adherence to compliance as all documents are read and understood in the same way. Incentivized Ben Williams Automation Developer (RPA and OCR Datacap) Read full review
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