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Document digitization and PDF editing made easy. Tips, trends & use cases for higher productivity.

FineReader for Mobile—The Answers to Nine Frequently Asked Questions

ABBYY FineReader for iOS receives hundreds of reviews in the App Store. We are glad to receive your feedback and answer your questions. The most frequent questions include: What is optical character recognition (OCR) and what can I use it for? What's the difference between FineReader and a phone camera? Does recognition work online or offline? Do you have a similar app for desktop computers?

Seven Tips for Creating Ideal Mobile Scans

Unsurprisingly, the quality of optical character recognition (OCR) is heavily dependent on the quality of the document photos you feed to the system. Digital workers, or software robots, big data and even machine learning technologies are helpless if the text on the photo is downright illegible. The good news is that it only takes you a few moments of careful preparation, and then ABBYY's technology will do the work to complete the process.

Latest FineReader PDF for Mac Release: More Manual Image Editing Tools and Monterey Support

ABBYY FineReader PDF for Mac is a software that converts PDFs, document images, and scans, with expanded PDF support. It was initially released in April 2021.