ABBYY FineReader vs. PDF Xchange Viewer and Editor

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

PDF Xchange is easy to learn and use. It's well-suited when documents have lots of visual information and require headings and comment boxes throughout the page. We mainly use PDF Xchange for PDF editing and making up notes. It would be useful to use it to edit text documents, but I find it better suited for marking up documents with lots of visual information.

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• Read and analyze complicated documents
• Automatically recognize tables and charts
• Convert any documents into various common formats

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• Intuitive an easy to understand interface
• Fast
• Good value for the price

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• Conversion to MS Word (formatting accuracy issues occur)
• Conversion to MS Excel (formatting accuracy issues occur)

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• Have the ability to add a little more customization (like font sizes in Typewriter tool, etc).
• Have the ability to export individual pages into separate PDFs.
• Have the ability to easily resize.

Incentivized

It's easy to use, making it very efficient for us as we do not have to train additional people on how to use this software. It opens up documents quickly and saves quickly as well. Overall the usability is not an issue for us at all. It is also extremely easy to integrate it with other PDF programs.

Incentivized

Performance wise, PDF Xchange Viewer and Editor is flawless. It runs fast, and I haven't experienced any immediately crashing. The reports save quickly, and the document size is never an issue. It saves into a regular PDF, and we're able to open it on any other program or computer. All text boxes, features, and headers show up flawlessly on other programs.

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The application had no issues (we did not contact support) and that's why I give a 10.

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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

Better price for single licenses and user packs.

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• 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.

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• PDF XChange costs around $50-75 per person depending on the version.