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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    ABBYY FineReader

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AABBYY 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 Sign

    Score8.2 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Acrobat Sign is an e-signature solution that combines simple and secure e-signatures with Adobe Acrobat. With Acrobat Sign, the user can create, sign, send for signature, manage, and track documents from one Adobe platform. The user can create signing experiences for customers and teams by enabling them to sign documents on any device or browser – anytime, anywhere. No additional software download or accounts are needed. As Microsoft’s e-signature solution, Acrobat Sign…

    $14.99

    per month license

    Pricing
    ABBYY FineReaderAdobe Acrobat Sign
    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
    Acrobat Standard DC for teams
    $14.99
    per month license
    Acrobat Pro DC with advanced e-sign
    $16.99
    per month license
    Acrobat Sign Solutions
    Call 800-685-4192 for pricing
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    ABBYY FineReaderAdobe Acrobat Sign
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee$34.99 license per month
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    Community Pulse
    ABBYY FineReaderAdobe Acrobat Sign
    Considered Both Products
    ABBYY
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    Adobe
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    93%
    Would buy again
    177 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    93%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    92%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    93%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    111 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    133 Answers
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    User Ratings
    ABBYY FineReaderAdobe Acrobat Sign
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    2.9
    (228 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (30 ratings)
    Usability
    -
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    1.8
    (194 ratings)
    Availability
    -
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    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    Performance
    -
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    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (164 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
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    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
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    8.0
    (7 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
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    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
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    5.0
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
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    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
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    9.0
    (2 ratings)
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    9.0
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    User Testimonials
    ABBYY FineReaderAdobe Acrobat Sign
    Likelihood to Recommend
    ABBYY
    FineReader is critical for any business that handles scanned documents or works with files that need conversion to Excel, PDF, Powerpoint or various other programs. It's ability to automatically process, read documents and suggest tables is impressive. It can take printed documents and convert all of the text to a editable format which is a huge time saver. In regards to tables it can automatically find and identify columns and separate them out for immediate use in Excel
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    Adobe
    Acrobat Sign isn't quite as user friendly as other E-Sign platforms I have used. However, it offers a wide range of features that provide convenience and efficiency. For example, I can have multiple people receive the same document separately, or I can have multiple people receive and review the exact same document. I also like that I can choose to set a signing order or not, this is important for when I send Offer Letters and other things that require order of approvals.
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    Pros
    ABBYY
    • OCR scanning
    • Refining scanned text
    • Sophisticated and flexible OCR settings/adjustments
    • High-quality editing and document comparison tools
    Incentivized
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    Adobe
    • Adobe Acrobat Sign tracks whether or not a signer has viewed a document
    • Adobe Acrobat Sign tracks when a signer has signed, and the document has been sent to the next signer
    • Adobe Acrobat Sign sends you confirmation emails and progress update emails along the way
    • Adobe Acrobat Sign provides a "confirmation of signing" page at the end of the document package you put together, to prove the signatures are authentic
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    ABBYY
    • A versioning system of the work done or the editions that have been saved in the files, or a tracking of changes between one version and another would be fabulous
    • An improvement that would be asked would be as previews or suggestions of the type of file that could be beneficial to use in an edition
    • The redesign of the panels is that of the analyzed document, the edition and the changes in my opinion need a resizing to have a better view of the work
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    Adobe
    • Builds on Adobe platform so it is easy to utilize, but many features require enterprise subscription.
    • Integrations available but your CRM integration is only available with enterprise license.
    • Lots of templates but there are additional templates with enterprise only and there was no drag and drop editor.
    • Adobe captures some analytical metrics but many of the analytics we required were not available - specifically metrics related to how the tool converts and reduces use time by our team and the impact on clients.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    ABBYY
    No answers on this topic
    Adobe
    It is by far the easiest service we have used to obtain digital signatures from employees. In the past we had done it by hand (a process I would not recommend for 1500+ employees) and with another company that would not allow us to create our own forms and would charge us for each form.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    ABBYY
    No answers on this topic
    Adobe
    I've had very little trouble with it in all my uses with it. I do wish the text boxes you add wouldn't cut off the text if you entered too many words and that it would adjust it's size to fit within the space you've provided. However, that just takes a little refining in the initial set up of the document before you send it out.
    Incentivized
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    Reliability and Availability
    ABBYY
    No answers on this topic
    Adobe
    I would have rated this a 9 or greater had they not had had such critical outages. They have taken steps to resolve this so I may come in and revise this
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    Performance
    ABBYY
    No answers on this topic
    Adobe
    The Adobe Acrobat Sign's performance are excellent.
    When we send electronic document by email for signature all the customers receive it regularly, nobody has any issue to open it and the signature phase was very easy. The user-friendly aspect of this product reduce or reset the call for IT support
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    Support Rating
    ABBYY
    No answers on this topic
    Adobe
    It is a great tool to get signatures from the client and has reduced a lot of overhead that was caused before resulting in very long delays. With the integration of Adobe Acrobat Sign, we have reduced this delay making the process much smoother and more efficient.
    Incentivized
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    Online Training
    ABBYY
    No answers on this topic
    Adobe
    The best types of training are well integrated into the product and Echosign does this well. As mentioned earlier in my review - there are some areas of functionality that can be difficult to understand ("only I sign") for the novice user. Other areas such as macro usage, bulk signature and so on were easily learned and understood via the online tools.
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    Implementation Rating
    ABBYY
    No answers on this topic
    Adobe
    We did not use it in the manner that most companies do, so I am pleased with how our company handled implementation. We will be pushing the full company over into Echosign for various processes which will incorporate more of an implementation effect.
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    Alternatives Considered
    ABBYY
    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
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    Adobe
    They are just different. Adobe's number one feature that puts it above it's competitors is that your document, the signing process, all of it exists within Adobe. There is no need to go from Word, to Adobe, to DocuSign. It saves you time and makes life easy for you (and for your clients).
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    Scalability
    ABBYY
    No answers on this topic
    Adobe
    At the beginning we assigned Adobe Acrobat Sign just to Purchase Office Department because at that moment we needed a tool that supported us to avoid manual signature and was compliance with remote working.
    Now we are using it also in other situation because it help us with time and we can also reduce cost
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    ABBYY
    • ABBYY FineReader is an irreplaceable tool for preparing documents for document management systems and getting the most of them afterward
    • Great time saver in various scenarios related to work with scans and photos of documents
    Incentivized
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    Adobe
    • Significantly reduced the time required for document signing processes reducing wasted time and effort
    • Cost savings since there is no longer any need to print and post/scan traditional signed paper-based documents
    • Faster decision-making since time-sensitive decisions and approvals can now be processed much more quickly by using e-signatures.
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    ABBYY FineReader Screenshots

    Screenshot of a display of the options: view, edit, and convert PDFs or compare different versions.Screenshot of PDF editing in FineReader, which is almost like a Word document, where users can rewrite text paragraphs, edit the content in tables, or rearrange the layout.Screenshot of the software's collaboration features, with the ablity to comment on, annotate, or mark up documents.Screenshot of PDF to Word document conversion.Screenshot of fillable fields, in a PDFScreenshot of PDF organization options, which include the ability to merge and rearrange pages, or adding Bates numbering and stamps.

    Adobe Acrobat Sign Screenshots

    Screenshot of Send, sign, manage and archive documents with 100% legal e-signatures. Collecting e-signatures is as easy as swipe and tap with Adobe Sign. Sign from any device. Legally binding. Works with multiple apps. extremely cost-effective.Screenshot of Easily send e-signature requests to multiple recipients using Send in bulk feature.  Send a document to multiple people with one click, and every recipient gets their own personalized form ready to sign.Screenshot of Track and manage signatures with Adobe Acrobat Sign.  Get real-time visibility for every document out for signature, and receive notifications when documents have been signed.Screenshot of Create an online web form with Acrobat Sign.  It allows your recipients – whether they’re your employees or customers – to quickly access, complete, and sign critical documents without printing or mailing anything.  You will also get immediate access to the data and signatures.