ABBYY FineReader vs PDF Xchange Viewer and Editor

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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If you'd like to switch from Adobe to a less expensive and more robust solution, you can choose PDF X Change.It does everything other expensive solutions do. We are using it to add some additional information on scanned PDF files and Sign them and it does it in a simple and easy way. You can use to combine multiple files into one, creating PDF from different resources.

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Professional in Information Technology

Financial Services Company, 501-1000 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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Easy to edit PDFs.
Easy to add headers and text boxes.
Fast, no lags.

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Team Lead in Professional Services

Civil Engineering Company, 10,001+ 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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Improve a bit the interface
Add a first usage tour

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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

Additional Pricing Details

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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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PDF Xchange Viewer and Editor Editions & Modules

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Additional Pricing Details

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Usability

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PDF Xchange Viewer and Editor 10.0

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It's easy to use, making it very efficient for us as we do not have to train additional people on how to use this software. It opens up documents quickly and saves quickly as well. Overall the usability is not an issue for us at all. It is also extremely easy to integrate it with other PDF programs.

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Performance

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PDF Xchange Viewer and Editor 10.0

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Performance wise, PDF Xchange Viewer and Editor is flawless. It runs fast, and I haven't experienced any immediately crashing. The reports save quickly, and the document size is never an issue. It saves into a regular PDF, and we're able to open it on any other program or computer. All text boxes, features, and headers show up flawlessly on other programs.

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Support Rating

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PDF Xchange Viewer and Editor 10.0

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The application had no issues (we did not contact support) and that's why I give a 10.

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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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Better price for single licenses and user packs.

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Financial Services Company, 501-1000 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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Positive: Efficient because it's easy to learn, saving training time.
Positive: Adding comments and editing is a breeze, saving peer review hours.
Negative: We still have to rely on Acrobat DC to export individual pages into separate PDFs.

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Civil Engineering Company, 10,001+ employees

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