ABBYY FineReader vs NetDocuments

Likelihood to Recommend

It works exceptionally well for digitizing paper and scanned documents for storage and simple retrieval mainly thanks to OCR technology, which greatly simplifies the process. If there is a need for protection and/or signing scanned documents than ABBYY FineReader has all the necessary features implemented. It may not be the best choice for individuals, where advanced functionalities are not really needed.

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Employee in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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It is ideal where security is your number one concern or where there is a need to share securely across different physical locations. Speed is less than ideal in certain usage scenarios. It is limited by the speed of the internet and it can be difficult to pull large quantities of documents when researching or answering discovery requests, although, that being said, it can be addressed by maintaining your own secure server to contain a mirror of your online documents. But then the security for a mirror falls back on the organization.

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Rick Hahn

Consultant \ Law Office Practice Management & Accounting Software

Rick Hahn Tech ServicesLegal Services, 1-10 employees

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Pros

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

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Director in Marketing

Marketing & Advertising Company, 1-10 employees

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Searching: NetDocuments' searching capabilities put it on par with other legal search engines used for research and knowledge management purposes.
Scalability: Despite the ever-increasing number of items stored in the repository, time searching is unaffected.
Innovation: NetDocuments continuously looks for new solutions and updates their product regularly.
Ease of Update: Because it is Web-based, updates to the software do not require local installation.

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Sam Catanzaro

Lead Technology Training Specilaist

Dorsey & Whitney LLPLaw Practice, 1001-5000 employees

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Cons

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

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Employee in Legal

Law Practice Company, 11-50 employees

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Delay. At times, there is a delay between saving a document into Netdocuments and actually seeing them in the appropriate workspace. Such a delay is caused by the system indexing the newly added file.
Netdocuments' servers slow down at times causing users to receive error messages. This can be quickly remedied, but can become a nuisance.

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Aleksandra Kagan-Alameda

Software Application Supervisor /Paralegal

Scarinci Hollenbeck, LLCLaw Practice, 51-200 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Starting Price

$19 per month per user

ABBYY FineReader Editions & Modules

Edition

FineReader PDF 15 Standard	$19¹
FineReader PDF 15 Corporate	$24¹
FineReader Pro for Mac	$69²

per month per user
per year per user

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General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Starting Price

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NetDocuments Editions & Modules

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Additional Pricing Details

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Usability

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NetDocuments 10.0

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The product is simple to learn and adheres to well-known web user protocols. The NetDocuments team spends a lot of time talking to customers regarding how to improve their interface, and are pretty quick about implementing good ideas. The system is reliable and repeatable, and similar functions are laid out consistently and in formats that users are used to.

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C-Level Executive in Information Technology

Legal Services Company, 201-500 employees

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Performance

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NetDocuments 10.0

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NetDocuments is a performant web app. It is reliable and provides all the functionality of a sophisticated document management system. It also can serve, through its APIs, as a base system for other applications, which enhances its value. Other vendors find the company easy to work with, and it consistently seems to be the first to offer new features and technologies to its customers.

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C-Level Executive in Information Technology

Legal Services Company, 201-500 employees

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Support Rating

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NetDocuments 7.0

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I've never had to contact support, but I won't give it a ten. We've had a few hiccups along the way, but nothing that couldn't be fixed within 24 hours.

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Manager in Finance and Accounting

Law Practice Company, 501-1000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

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 always available. the hand and not within complicated menus or overloaded interfaces

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Moris Mendez

Ing. de Sistemas Informaticos

Corte Suprema de JusticiaGovernment Administration, 5001-10,000 employees

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We switched to NetDocuments 11 years ago. So, to be fair and accurate... the OpenText product at that time was called PC Docs and the company (that OpenText acquired) was Hummingbird. I can't remember who owned iManage at the time. Anyway, NetDocuments was a superior product at the time, in general, and more specifically because the search and remote access features\functions were superior (and still are).

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Mark Manoukian

Customer

AderantLaw Practice, 51-200 employees

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Return on Investment

Automated document conversion using Hot Folder heavily reduced workload [for] our IT Support department.
The amount of storage required for digitized paper documents has been reduced by 30%.
Ability to compare multilingual documents has increased productivity of our multinational departments.

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Employee in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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Improved mobility
Eliminated issues with strucutre
The conversion was difficult, not ND fault, change is hard, but training and support helped.

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Consultant in Customer Service

Information Technology and Services Company, 11-50 employees

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