Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
ABBYY FineReader
Score 8.0 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
Lark
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
Lark, or Larksuite, is a take on office suite software that supports workplace collaboration. Founded in 2016, Lark combines messaging, schedule management and online collaborative documents in a single platform. Lark is available now on macOS, Windows, iOS and Android.
$0
Slack
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
Slack is a group messaging or team collaboration app that aims to simplify communication for businesses. Features include open discussions, private groups, and direct messaging, as well as deep contextual search and message archiving, and file sharing. Slack integrates with a number of other tools, such as MailChimp, Dropbox, and Google Drive. Slack was acquired by Salesforce in December 2020. The product is free to use, and also has paid plans with more features and greater controls. The…
$8.75
per month per user
Pricing
ABBYY FineReaderLarksuiteSlack
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
Starter
$0
up to 20 users
Pro
$12
per month per user (up to 500 users)
Enterprise
Custom
Free
$0
Pro
$7.25*
per month per user
Business+
$12.50*
per month per user
Enterprise
Contact Sales
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
ABBYY FineReaderLarkSlack
Free Trial
YesNoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsDiscount offered for annual billing.*Per active user, per month, when paying once a year. Pro is $8.75 USD per active user when paying month to month. Business+ is $15.00 USD per active user when paying month to month.
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Community Pulse
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Features
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Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
ABBYY FineReader
-
Ratings
Larksuite
10.0
2 Ratings
25% above category average
Slack
7.9
625 Ratings
1% above category average
Task Management00 Ratings10.02 Ratings7.7428 Ratings
Gantt Charts00 Ratings10.02 Ratings6.961 Ratings
Scheduling00 Ratings10.02 Ratings7.8361 Ratings
Workflow Automation00 Ratings10.02 Ratings8.1394 Ratings
Mobile Access00 Ratings10.02 Ratings9.4598 Ratings
Search00 Ratings10.02 Ratings8.2605 Ratings
Visual planning tools00 Ratings10.02 Ratings7.4273 Ratings
Communication
Comparison of Communication features of Product A and Product B
ABBYY FineReader
-
Ratings
Larksuite
10.0
2 Ratings
22% above category average
Slack
8.8
633 Ratings
9% above category average
Chat00 Ratings10.02 Ratings9.6632 Ratings
Notifications00 Ratings10.02 Ratings8.8629 Ratings
Discussions00 Ratings10.02 Ratings9.2617 Ratings
Surveys00 Ratings10.02 Ratings8.1410 Ratings
Internal knowledgebase00 Ratings10.02 Ratings7.8409 Ratings
Integrates with GoToMeeting00 Ratings00 Ratings8.9110 Ratings
Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts00 Ratings00 Ratings8.7182 Ratings
Integrates with Outlook00 Ratings00 Ratings8.9120 Ratings
File Sharing & Management
Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Product A and Product B
ABBYY FineReader
-
Ratings
Larksuite
10.0
2 Ratings
22% above category average
Slack
8.4
600 Ratings
4% above category average
Versioning00 Ratings10.02 Ratings8.2324 Ratings
Video files00 Ratings10.02 Ratings8.3538 Ratings
Audio files00 Ratings10.02 Ratings8.5525 Ratings
Document collaboration00 Ratings10.02 Ratings8.0426 Ratings
Access control00 Ratings10.02 Ratings8.3409 Ratings
Advanced security features00 Ratings10.02 Ratings8.3360 Ratings
Device sync00 Ratings10.02 Ratings9.0452 Ratings
Integrates with Google Drive00 Ratings00 Ratings9.0211 Ratings
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User Ratings
ABBYY FineReaderLarksuiteSlack
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(3 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
9.1
(625 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(25 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(248 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
9.9
(68 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
8.7
(5 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
9.3
(2 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Professional Services
-
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
ABBYY FineReaderLarksuiteSlack
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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Lark Technologies Pte. Ltd.
On my experience, I did not experience any issue when using this tool. Simply because it is a perfect tool and easy to use. You just need to log in your working email and you can now use it. You can message all of the employees on the company Larksuite.
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Salesforce
Slack is great for tracking commits to new coding projects. You can take parts of code that still need to be implemented later and easily search through the history of comments if there is something that goes wrong with a code commitment. It can be difficult for people that only like Teams to adjust to a new platform if you are using both to communicate.
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Pros
ABBYY
  • OCR scanning
  • Refining scanned text
  • Sophisticated and flexible OCR settings/adjustments
  • High-quality editing and document comparison tools
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Lark Technologies Pte. Ltd.
  • Employee Intranet
  • Video Conferencing
  • Document Creation
  • Knowledge base
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Salesforce
  • Huddles Run smoothly without any interferences.
  • Smooth individual calls quick and easy without any interruptions.
  • seamless notifications across multiple devices
  • The ability to easily tag a team member to urgently attend to a specific escalation.
  • Slack being user friendly and able to integrate easily with other platforms and apps.
  • How to easily open up different channels for different escalations and needs.
  • a safe direct messaging option.
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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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Lark Technologies Pte. Ltd.
  • To automatically delete accounts of the resigned employees
  • Detect Harmful files that may harm the user
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Salesforce
  • Would love a better integration with GitHub. For example, notifications when your PR is updated, when review is requested, @-mention in comments, etc.
  • Improved "Later" tab, for example the ability to create to-do lists or making the "Later" tab into a more powerful to-do list (annotate items with notes)
  • More powerful integrations, e.g. Google Calendar could render a calendar view within Slack, rather than sending the daily schedule
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Likelihood to Renew
ABBYY
No answers on this topic
Lark Technologies Pte. Ltd.
We will use this product and we don't have plan to change since this is a perfect tool
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Salesforce
To be more transparent, I give 10 because Slack serves our collaboration needs. It provide us a good platform for team communication relaying important update within the company, it has even mobile app where you can install in your phone to monitor any updates within that team that needs your immediate attention and intervention.
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Usability
ABBYY
No answers on this topic
Lark Technologies Pte. Ltd.
I rate this perfect simply because we use this everyday and this is very helpful. Without this tool I can't imagine how we can communicate to each other and how we can resolve every concern/issue that we cater everyday on our job. This is the tool we use to communicate and endorse specific concern.
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Salesforce
My rating was 7. Its intuitive interface and user-friendly features like channels, threads, and integrations make it excellent for team communication and onboarding. However, its usability is held back by the resource-intensive desktop app and cluttered feeling in large workspaces. The mobile app's performance and unreliable notifications have also been noted as weaknesses.
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Reliability and Availability
ABBYY
No answers on this topic
Lark Technologies Pte. Ltd.
No answers on this topic
Salesforce
Yes, the app works 24/7. I don't even recall having any period that we could not use since the implementation. Even the maintenance periods are barely noticeable and our work is not impacted by it when it happens.
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Performance
ABBYY
No answers on this topic
Lark Technologies Pte. Ltd.
No answers on this topic
Salesforce
Slack is a soft app, we don't have many issues with it. I recall one or two people complaining about something during our usage period, but I didn't have a bad experience. When the app is slow, usually the problem is with my computer or my internet. The app works just fine.
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Support Rating
ABBYY
No answers on this topic
Lark Technologies Pte. Ltd.
No answers on this topic
Salesforce
Whenever I've had to troubleshoot an issue with Slack (which, to be honest, has not happened very often), their online documentation has been easy to locate, easy to understand, and effective in resolving my issue. Slack's ever-growing popularity also means that there's a large community of practice out there that can be depended upon.
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Implementation Rating
ABBYY
No answers on this topic
Lark Technologies Pte. Ltd.
No answers on this topic
Salesforce
I was not part of the implementation team, but I recall being 100% happy and excited to learn and use a new tool. I'm still am to be honest.
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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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Lark Technologies Pte. Ltd.
I selected Larksuite simply because even you don't have laptop or desktop you can simply install this app through google or apple store and you just need to log in using your working email. You will now access and use every feature on this app. You can also watch and play videos.
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Salesforce
I like Slack better than ClickUp, because I would spend 30-60 minutes a day updating my ClickUp tasks. The way ClickUp was used was very micromanaging. I billed by the hour, so I was willing to put in the time to alert the boss what tasks I was working on.
One of my jobs used Hive - I mostly just ran it in the background in case anyone messaged me. I did not use it often.
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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
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Lark Technologies Pte. Ltd.
  • The quality of communicator is way easier by the help of Larksuite
  • Larksuite plays the most important role in our company since by Larksuite we our being notified if there are updates we need to check
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Salesforce
  • Slack has been incredibly helpful in connecting various tech apps and ecosystems, creating a more streamlined and responsive process.
  • Slack has made it significantly easier to communicate with our team members across multiple time zones, creating a more engaging environment for our all-remote team.
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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.