ABBYY FineReader PDF Overview
FineReader PDF enables professionals to maximize efficiency in the digital workplace. With ABBYY’s latest AI-based OCR technology, FineReader makes it easy to digitize, retrieve, edit, protect, share and collaborate on a variety of documents within the same workflow. Now information workers can focus even more on their expertise and less on administrative tasks.
Key features of ABBYY FineReader PDF
View, navigate and organize PDF files
Browse pages, comments and metadata. Choose a convenient viewing mode based on your reading preferences. Add, delete, rearrange, rotate and crop pages. Merge documents into a single PDF
Reuse information from PDFs
Extract (copy and paste) text and tables directly from any PDF while retaining formatting – with just a few clicks. Review and update metadata and verify digital signatures to ensure document authenticity and integrity.
Get information from any PDF file
Find information quickly and easily, even in scanned PDF files, using full-text keyword search and bookmarks. After opening a document, FineReader PDF automatically recognizes non-searchable PDF documents and immediately applies OCR (Optical Character Recognition) to make them searchable.
Management and adaptation of PDF documents for specific workflows
Use custom stamps, Bates numbers, and watermarks to customize PDFs for your workflows. Add or edit links, bookmarks, headers, footers, and page numbers to simplify document navigation. By adding keywords to the metadata, you can make document retrieval easier.
Reuse information from PDFs
Extract (copy and paste) text and tables directly from any PDF while retaining formatting – with just a few clicks. Review and update metadata and verify digital signatures to ensure document authenticity and integrity.
Edit and update PDF files
Update previous versions or create completely new documents based on existing PDFs. You can edit paragraphs or add new ones; add or delete images; edit text within tables; and rearrange layout elements within a page. With FineReader PDF, you can edit scanned documents as easily as digitally created PDFs.
Fill out the PDF forms
Fill in the interactive fields on PDF forms or scanned paper forms to add text to the designated spaces. Signing forms by fax or digital signature
Mark and record
You can conveniently annotate any part of a PDF (text, images, chart or chart area, captions, etc.) using Notes, Text Box, and a variety of markup and drawing tools.
Comment and discuss
You can exchange ideas and questions by commenting on nominations or replying to comments. Assign a status to each comment to create more transparency between collaborators and better manage the discussion.
Manage comments and speed up decision making
Search by keyword, sort, filter comments and assign a status. You can also easily add stamps to indicate the status of the entire document.
Send documents to others for approval
Share documents with different stakeholders and collect multiple digital signatures within the same PDF file.
Delete sensitive information
Prevent disclosure of privileged or confidential information with a reliable editing tool. Permanently and irreversibly remove sensitive information such as personal information, bank account numbers, etc. from PDF, including body text, headers and footers, comments and metadata. Work efficiently by scanning and editing an entire document in seconds.
Remove hidden data
Reduce the risk of accidentally sharing confidential information in PDF by removing hidden objects and data with one click. You can remove OCR-added text layers, comments and annotations, attachments, bookmarks, metadata, links, media, actions, scripts, and form data.