ABBYY FineReader vs PaperTrail

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 very easy to use. We utilize it to save and show the logs for as many apps as we want. You can use it as an addon on Heroku.

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Engineer in Engineering

Internet Company, 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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PaperTrail is less expensive than many of its competitors.
PaperTrail is very easy to set up; you can start collecting logs in no time.
It is easy to configure email alerts and Slack integrations with PaperTrail.

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Engineer in Engineering

Research Company, 11-50 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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Interface is aging and in need of a re-write. It's functional, but not all that nice to work with
While the logs are near-real-time, they could greatly improve the speed at which logs are available in the UI
Pricing plans are not all that competitive with newer offerings with other companies

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Joshua Dickson

Director of Engineering

NorthOutComputer Software, 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?

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Starting Price

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PaperTrail Editions & Modules

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Usability

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PaperTrail 9.0

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PaperTrail has become a basic app for me to save and see app logs. It is very easy to use, very intuitive and easy to customize. The feature I like most is that we can use it with several apps at same time.

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Engineer in Engineering

Internet Company, 1-10 employees

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Performance

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PaperTrail 7.0

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PaperTrail's live-tailing performance is adequate and searches over the recent history load quickly. Searching over long periods of time can be extremely slow, however.

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Engineer in Engineering

Research Company, 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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I only used Logz.io for a very brief time. It seemed a bit more difficult to setup than Papertrail.

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Tyler Longren

Wordpress Developer

Saltech SystemsInternet, 1-10 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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Free plan is sufficient for development and small services, and the paid plans are very cheap at low log volume. For us, the price is right with PaperTrail - though I can't speak to how their pricing compares at very high volumes.
Adding cloud-logging to your apps can really speed up development and debugging - the impact to engineering productivity cannot be understated.

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Engineer in Engineering

Health, Wellness and Fitness Company, 1-10 employees

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ABBYY FineReader vs PaperTrail