ABBYY FineReader vs Nitro Productivity Suite

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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Nitro is well suited for the common tasks we use like include viewing and editing. The redaction tool is very useful when sharing documents with sensitive information. The downfall is we still must use Adobe Acrobat on occasion. Some PDFs will not open, view, or print properly in Nitro.

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Jason Glazer

President

United SAR, Inc.Wholesale, 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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Ability to combine files SEAMLESSLY and order them around as necessary (so underrated)
Signing not only for yourself but for others. Helpful for those who have been granted the authority to sign for VPs and directors
Much easier to use than some other PDF viewing services

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Ariel Dunay

Associate, Project Operations

Palladium: Make It PossibleManagement Consulting, 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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The font choices could be better and more robust.
Sometimes converting PDF documents to MS Word has formatting problems, like with some tables.
Converting MS Word to PDF can be slow sometimes, meaning it is faster to save the MS Word document as a PDF than selecting the file for conversion using the Nitro PDF convert option.

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Austin Lin

IT Operations Lead

Providence Technology Group, Inc.Information Technology & Services, 11-50 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

Yes

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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Nitro Productivity Suite Editions & Modules

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Additional Pricing Details

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Usability

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Nitro Productivity Suite 8.0

Based on 1 answer

It's quick and easy to use for all users.

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Verified User

Manager in Sales

Human Resources Company, 1-10 employees

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Performance

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Nitro Productivity Suite 8.0

Based on 2 answers

It works as advertised.

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Manager in Sales

Human Resources Company, 1-10 employees

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Support Rating

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Nitro Productivity Suite 9.4

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Nitro checks all the boxes for what we need. It is fairly priced, it allows us to read and edit PDF documents, convert PDF to MS Word and convert MS Word to PDF. It allows us to combine multiple files and do all the post processing like adding page numbers and adding headers and footers

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Austin Lin

IT Operations Lead

Providence Technology Group, Inc.Information Technology & Services, 11-50 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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Nitro Productivity Suite allows a user to accomplish all of the things you would want to do to a document that Adobe does not. Much easier to find the operation you are looking for in Nitro Productivity Suite compared to Adobe

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Matthew McGinnis

VP of Business Development

InTech AerospaceAirlines/Aviation, 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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Verified User

Employee in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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ROI was very quick as the license costs were so low. We purchased 8 licenses versus the initial 2 we were planning on for Adobe.
More people were able to use the product than we initially thought due to low purchase costs.
We haven't had any further costs to own the product after the initial purchase. We would need to purchase new licenses if we wanted to upgrade.

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Administrator in Information Technology

Financial Services Company, 51-200 employees

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