FULL FEATURE LIST
Revision: October 13, 2023
ABBYY
®
FineReader
®
PDF 16 Standard
ABBYY
®
FineReader
®
PDF 16 Corporate
ABBYY
®
FineReader
®
PDF for Mac
®
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User experience and productivity
Productivity software to manage PDF, scanned, and
paper documents in the digital workplace: edit, protect,
share, collaborate, convert, compare, digitize, retrieve
+ excl. comparing +
Productivity software for document conversion into
editable formats and searchable PDFs for all types of
PDFs, paper documents, and their images
+ + +
Easy-to-use interface + + +
Tabbed interface + +
Quick task shortcuts for most popular scenarios in the
start window
+ + +
Direct scanning of paper documents for editing or
conversion with built-in scanning interface
+ + +
High-speed conversion of multi-page documents with
effective multi-core processing support
+ + +
Compliance with accessibility standards (Section 508) + VPAT form + VPAT form
High-resolution monitor support + + +
Integration with FineReader PDF Mobile App + +
64-bit application for x64 Windows platforms + +
Integration with Microsoft
®
Office apps (Outlook, Word,
Excel, PowerPoint)
+ +
Dark Mode support +
Continuity Camera support +
Platform (operation system) Windows Windows macOS
Edit, protect, and collaborate on PDFs
Edit and organize PDFs
Viewing
Open and view PDFs: pages, attachments, metadata,
comments, etc.
+ + + Pages and
metadata only
Zoom and rotate pages for viewing + + + Zoom only
Full document preview for PDFs in Windows
®
Explorer
and Microsoft
®
Outlook
®
+ +
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Set FineReader PDF as default PDF application + + +
Various PDF viewing modes: full screen, one or two pages
(side-by-side), page-by-page, or with continuous scrolling
+ + +
PDF navigation using page numbers, thumbnails, and
bookmarks
+ + +
Page numbers only
Open document images and PDFs created by
FineReader PDF Mobile app
1
+ +
Auto-detection of URLs (links) in the text + +
Search
Full-text search in any kind of PDF, including scanned
PDFs with Background Recognition
+ +
Search through any part of a PDF: body text, comments,
bookmarks, and metadata
+ +
Editing and modification
Edit PDFs of any kind: scanned, searchable, digital + +
Edit text within paragraphs, with the text reflowing from
line to line
+ +
Search and replace text in PDFs by specified keywords + +
Edit PDF page layout without conversion: move, add, and
adjust text blocks and pictures within a page
+ +
Edit text in individual cells of a table + +
Add new lines of paragraphs of text into a PDF + +
Reformat text within paragraphs: font, size, style, line
spacing, alignment, color, and writing direction
+ +
Create and edit hyperlinks and internal links within the
document, manually or from autodetected URLs
+ +
Create, delete, rename bookmarks to a page, specific
place, or phrase in a PDF
+ +
Work with detected images in a PDF: delete, resize, move,
rotate, or insert new ones
+ +
Erase a part of an image or any area on a page using the
Eraser tool with background color autodetection
+ +
Enhance image pages including skew correction, image
resolution, and page orientation
+ +
Manage metadata: add, edit, or delete document
properties such as authors, keywords etc.
+ +
Work with attachments: view, add, rename, delete, or
save them as separate files
+ +
Add headers and footers + +
Add and delete watermarks + +
Add Bates Numbering to a PDF + +
Add, create, and manage stamps + +
Apply MRC compression to optimize PDF file size + +
Add text layer to image-only PDFs (e.g., scanned) + +
Split PDF documents by file size, by page count, or by
bookmarks
+ +
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Organizing pages
Manage pages: rearrange, add, or delete them; rotate
pages manually or with the automatic correction of page
orientation
+ +
Add pages: blank, from other documents (PDF, images,
Microsoft
®
Office documents etc.), or from a scanner
+ +
Enhance images of pages, including skew correction,
changing image resolution, and page orientation
+ +
Crop pages + +
“Organise Pages” tool for managing and rearranging
PDF pages
+ +
Automatic detection of blank pages + +
Review and delete detected blank pages + +
Extracting content
Copy texts from digital PDFs + + +
Copy text, images, and tables directly from scanned,
searchable, or digital PDFs without losing the original
formatting and structure
+ +
Adjust table separators before copying tables (move, add,
and delete separators or merge and split cells)
+ +
Filling in forms
Fill in interactive PDF forms + +
Insert digital signatures or facsimile signatures into
dedicated form fields
+ +
Import/export PDF data from form fields (using .fdf files) + +
Printing
Print PDF documents, with or without comments + + + without
comments only
Collaborate on and approve PDFs
View, add, delete, and manage comments directly in a PDF + + +
Mark up text using Highlight, Underline, Strikethrough
and Insert tools
+ + + Highlight only
Mark up images, charts, captions, etc. using Notes, Text
Box, and drawing tools
+ + + Notes only
Search text and mark up search results with one click + +
Add new comments and reply to existing text comments + + +
Assign statuses to comments (such as "accepted",
"rejected", "canceled", or "completed")
+ +
Sort or filter comments by author, type, date, flag status,
or comment status
+ +
SharePoint integration: check in/check out + +
Send PDF via email + +
Share PDF via AirDrop, Mail, iCloud, etc. +
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Protect and sign PDFs
Protect PDFs with passwords to restrict access to content
(i.e., opening, editing, printing, copying text or other content)
+ + + via conversion to
PDF only
40-bit RC4, 128- or 256-bit AES encryption support + +
Apply digital signatures + +
Automatic validation of digital signatures when a PDF opens + +
Support of LTV digital signatures (DocuSign, etc.) + +
Support of PIN-protected digital certificates (smartcards) + +
SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, MD5 encryption algorithms
support for digital signatures
+ +
Select a time stamp server for digital signatures + +
Adjust digital signature fields to display (reason, location,
contact, date, owner information, application version)
+ +
Redact confidential or personal information in PDFs + +
Search and redact keywords in the entire document
(including document text, comments, and metadata)
with a few clicks
+ +
Search and redact keywords by a predefined keyword list + +
Remove hidden information such as text layers added
by OCR, comments and annotations, attachments,
bookmarks, metadata, links, media, actions, scripts, and
form data with one click
+ +
Compliant with GDPR + + +
Create and convert PDFs
Create PDFs
Create PDF, PDF/A, and PDF/UA from Microsoft
®
Office
documents, PDFs, image files, and files in other formats:
+
PDF, TIFF, JPEG, JPEG
2000, JBIG2, PNG,
BMP, PCX, GIF, DjVu,
XPS, DOC(X), XLS(X),
PPT(X), VSD(X),
HTML, RTF, TXT, ODT,
ODS, ODP, SVG
+
PDF, TIFF, JPEG, JPEG
2000, JBIG2, PNG,
BMP, PCX, GIF, DjVu,
XPS, DOC(X), XLS(X),
PPT(X), VSD(X),
HTML, RTF, TXT, ODT,
ODS, ODP, SVG
+
only from PDFs and
images (TIFF, JPEG,
JPEG 2000, PNG,
BM P, GIF )
Create PDF, PDF/A, and PDF/UA documents directly from
Microsoft
®
Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
+ +
Create PDFs from emails, email attachments and folders
in Microsoft
®
Outlook
+ +
Create a PDF and send it by e-mail directly from
Microsoft
®
Word or Excel
+ +
Scan to PDF (incl. searchable PDF) + + +
Enhance visual appearance of scanned PDFs with
PreciseScan technology
+ +
Create PDFs from files in supported formats directly in
Windows
®
Explorer
+ +
Create a blank PDF + +
Save to searchable PDF (modes supported: text under
image, text over image, and text and pictures)
+ + + via conversion only
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Automatic creation of bookmarks in searchable PDFs
based on headings detected in document
+ +
Save as image-only PDF + + + via conversion only
Merge multiple Microsoft
®
Office documents, PDFs,
image files, and files in other formats into one PDF
+ + + PDFs and images,
via conversion only
Create fillable PDF forms
Create PDF interactive forms from a blank document or
by adding elements to an existing PDF
+ +
Interactive form elements supported: text field (incl.
multiline), date, drop-down list, radio button group, check
box, signature field, action button
+ +
Edit interactive PDF forms: add, copy and remove
elements, rearrange and align them on a page, change
size, appearance and properties
+ +
Set default field properties + +
Read-only fields, required fields + +
Password protection of created forms from unauthorized
changes
+ +
Actions supported: submit to an email as PDF, html,
XFDF; open a file, open a web link, reset the form, go to a
page, run JavaScript, and more
+ +
Convert PDF
Convert PDFs to Microsoft
®
Office and other editable
formats
+
DOC(X), XLS(X),
PPTX, HTML, RTF,
TXT, CSV, ODT
+
DOC(X), XLS(X),
PPTX, HTML, RTF,
TXT, CSV, ODT
+
DOCX, XLSX,
PPTX, HTML, RTF,
TXT, CSV, ODT
Convert PDFs to e-book formats +
EPUB, FB2
+
EPUB, FB2
+
EPUB, FB2
Convert PDFs to other formats +
DjVu
+
DjVu
Intelligent PDF conversion (automatic detection of text
layer quality and extraction of text from form fields and
text boxes)
+ +
Multiple PDF processing
Process multiple PDF documents simultaneously to:
- create PDF/A, PDF/UA, or tagged PDF files
- reduce file size using MRC compression
- enhance visual quality of scanned PDFs
- set password protection
- remove hidden data
- delete metadata
- convert to supported editable formats
+ +
Merge multiple PDF documents into one when
processing
+ +
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Find differences
Compare and find exact differences in text between two
copies of a document across various formats: scans,
images, PDF, and text documents – any two of:
+
PDF, TIFF, JPEG,
JPEG 2000, JBIG2,
PNG, BMP, PCX,
GIF, DjVu, XPS,
DOC(X), XLS(X),
PPT(X), VSD(X),
HTML, RTF, TXT,
ODT, ODS, ODP
Comparison of multilingual documents
40 comparison
languages
Automatic detection of document languages +
Finds differences in body text, headers and footers, or
numbering
+
Finds differences in filled-out fields of interactive PDF
forms and Text Box annotations in PDF files
+
Compare a document with its PDF or scanned copy
directly from Microsoft
®
Word
+
Review changes
Displays differences as: text deleted, text added,
replaced, and punctuation symbols
+
Detection of minor one-letter and punctuation
differences can be optionally switched off before
comparison
+
Synchronized side-by-side review of differences within
the context of the documents being compared
+
Easy review and navigation between the differences
across multi-page documents with a differences list
+
Irrelevant differences can be manually discarded before
saving comparison results
+
Save and share results
Save document with differences as Microsoft
®
Word file
in track-changes mode
+
Save document with differences as PDF file with the
differences presented as text mark-ups and comments
+
Save the list of differences as a separate table in
Microsoft
®
Word document format
+
Digitize documents and scans with Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
OCR and document conversion
Document (OCR) languages supported: 198 198 198
- including languages with dictionary support: 53 53 53
OCR accuracy, up to: 99.8%
2
99.8%
2
99.8%
2
Multilingual document recognition
+ + +
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Automatic detection of document languages: all
languages with dictionary support (except Asian
languages)
+ +
Automatic preprocessing with document classification + +
Retention of document layout including paragraphs,
images, tables, background images, and barcodes
+ + +
Retention of fonts and font styles + + +
Retention of paragraphs with vertical, color, and inverted text
+ + +
Retention of original structure of multi-page documents, in-
cluding headers, footers, footnotes, text columns, numbered
lists, heading structure, text flow between pages, etc. using
ADRT
®
(Adaptive Document Recognition Technology
®
)
+ + +
Recreation of bullet points and numbering by converting
them into native Microsoft
®
Word lists
+ + +
Retention of hyperlinks — detects links and converts
them into true hyperlinks
+ + +
Recognition of 1-D and 2-D Barcodes
Supported
barcodes
Supported
barcodes
Automatic detection of blank pages
+ +
Review and delete detected blank pages
+ +
Image acquisition
Scan paper documents directly from FineReader PDF using
its built-in scanning interface; adjustable scanning settings
+ + +
Open images of paper documents in FineReader PDF
directly from a smartphone or digital camera connected
to the computer
+ + +
Integration with FineReader PDF Mobile app via a cloud
storage
1
for document image and PDF acquisition
+ +
Support for TWAIN and WIA compatible imaging devices + +
Support for ICA compatible imaging devices
+
Convert to editable formats
Convert document images, scans, and PDFs: +
PDF (2.0 or
earlier), TIFF, JPEG,
JPEG 2000, JBIG2,
PNG, BMP, PCX,
GIF, DjVu, XPS
+
PDF (2.0 or
earlier), TIFF, JPEG,
JPEG 2000, JBIG2,
PNG, BMP, PCX,
GIF, DjVu, XPS
+
PDF (2.0 or
earlier), TIFF, JPEG,
JPEG 2000, PNG,
BMP
Save conversion results into editable formats: +
DOC(X), XLS(X),
PPTX, HTML, RTF,
TXT, CSV, ODT
+
DOC(X), XLS(X),
PPTX, HTML, RTF,
TXT, CSV, ODT
+
DOCX, XLSX,
PPTX, HTML, RTF,
TXT, CSV, ODT
Open a PDF, scanned or photographed document directly
in Microsoft
®
Word for editing (OCR is used)
+ +
Scan a paper document directly into Microsoft
®
Word for
editing (scanning device is needed; OCR is used)
+ +
Use document formatting retention profiles (when
converting to DOC(X), ODT, RTF): editable copy, exact
copy, and formatted or plain text
+ + +
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Keep/omit page headers and footers, pictures, etc. + + +
Convert multiple documents into editable formats
simultaneously using the same settings
+ + +
Merge separate files into one document during
conversion
+ + +
Prepare document for digital archiving
Digitize to Searchable PDFs + + +
Digitize to ISO standard PDF/A (1a, 1b, 2a, 2b, 2u, 3a, 3b,
3u) for long-term archiving
+ + +
Digitize to PDF/UA for accessibility compliance + + +
Reduce size of resulting PDF documents up to 20 times
2
with MRC compression
+ + +
Simultaneously prepare multiple documents for archiving
using the same settings
+ +
Advanced conversion capabilities
Recognition areas detection
Automatic detection of document areas (text, table,
image, background image, and barcodes)
+ + +
excl. barcodes
Adjust borders of recognition areas manually; change
area type
+ + +
Specify properties of individual recognition areas + + +
for text areas only
Add, delete, move table separators; merge and split table
cells
+ + +
Specify type and properties of individual table cells, such
as text orientation, language, inversion, image content, etc.
+ +
Copy recognized text from an area without exporting + + +
Adjust the order of areas manually to define the order of
content in the output document
+ +
Results verification and correction
Text Editor for checking recognition results, correcting
text formatting, and reviewing overall document layout
before saving
+ +
Style Editor to check, change, merge, or create font
styles in the output document before saving
+ +
Verify tool for quickly verifying uncertain character and
non-dictionary words against the initial document and
correcting possible errors before saving
+ +
Page renumbering tool for restoring the page order after
duplex scanning or splitting book pages
+ +
Find-and-Replace function to correct errors in the entire
document
+ +
Integration with Microsoft
®
Word Custom Dictionary
enables the creation of customized word lists for
processing industry-specific documents
+ +
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Scans and photos pre-processing
Automatically applies a set of necessary pre-processing
functions to images captured with scanners or smartphones:
- Detect page orientation
- Straighten curved text lines
- Convert to black and white
- Split dual pages
- Detect page edges*
- Deskew
- Whiten page background*
- Correct image resolution
- Reduce ISO noise*
- Remove color marks
- Remove motion blur*
- Invert colors
- Correct trapezoid distortions*
*extended pre-processing options especially for photos
+ + +
only enhance
images, split facing
pages, detect page
orientation
Manual image preprocessing to ensure better accuracy
and visual appearance (available in Image Editor):
- Split images into multiple pages
- Correct image resolution
- Clean background color and illumination
- Correct ISO noise
- Remove color stamps or color pen
- Trapezium crop on basic business documents
- Correct blurred images
- Rotate (90°, 180°, 270°) and flip images
- Correct brightness and contrast
- Crop pages
- Adjust levels
- Invert colors
- Eraser tool
+ + +
excl. clean
background, remove
color marks, adjust
levels, invert colors
Corrections to page images can be applied to: all pages,
odd pages, even pages, one or multiple selected pages
+ + +
Customize recognition for specific tasks
Create custom dictionaries and languages + +
Use pattern training to recognize documents with non-
standard or decorative characters, ligatures, and fonts
+ +
Create, save, and reuse area templates + +
Set up import and export options
Turn off automatic page image pre-processing and/or
recognition when pages are added to OCR Editor
+ + +
Conversion speed control: Fast mode for documents of
higher quality; Thorough mode to maximize accuracy on
low quality documents
+ +
Turn off the detection and saving of such elements as
headers and footers, pictures, etc.
+ + +
Save and open converted document + + +
Send To feature to directly open conversion results in
Word, Excel
®
, PowerPoint, PDF Editor, clipboard, or a web
browser without saving the file beforehand
+ +
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OCR project
Save the current conversion work and its settings even
when it's not finished using the OCR Project format
+ + +
Add documents from files in different formats to an OCR
project
+ + +
Reorder, rotate, and delete pages in an OCR project + + +
Share an OCR Project with colleagues to collaborate on
conversion tasks of a larger scale
+ +
Automate digitization, conversion, and comparison routines
Hot Folder
3
Create a watched folder: a folder monitored by Hot Folder
to automatically process any file of supported format
placed in it
+
Set up one or multiple watched folders on a local drive,
network drive, FTP server, or in an Outlook
®
mailbox
+
Schedule conversions to start at a specific time (one
time, recurring daily, weekly, or monthly) or to run
constantly (by checking for new files every minute)
+
Automatically convert newly received email attachments +
Convert PDFs, images (JPG, PNG, TIFF, etc.), and scans
(XPS, DJVU, etc.)
+
Save results as editable formats (DOC(X), ODT, XLS(X),
RTF, PPTX, etc.), searchable PDFs, images, or an OCR
Project for further editing and verification
+
Document separation supported: by subfolders +
Document merge supported: all to one, each subfolder to
one
+
Set up, run, and manage individual Hot Folder tasks for
each watched folder
+
Custom Automated Tasks
Create custom Automated Tasks for frequently
performed document conversions
+
Share created custom Automated Tasks with other
FineReader PDF users
+
Command Line Interface (CLI)
Set of CLI commands for running document conversion
or comparison with selected parameters and opening the
results in a selected application
+ +
Extended set of CLI commands for saving document
conversion or comparison results to a selected file
format
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+
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Bonus for registered users
ABBYY ScreenshotReader: Take screenshots and
recognize texts on any area of the screen of your
computer
+ +
ABBYY FineReader PDF Mobile:
Capture, organize, and OCR your documents on the go
+
Licensing & deployment
Licensing for organizations + + +
License Manager tool for centralized license
management over LAN for workstations and users
+ +
Automated remote deployment onto multiple
workstations in LAN with Active Directory,
Microsoft
®
SCCM, or the command line
+ +
Automatic Activation for deployment onto multiple
workstations in LAN without centralized license
management
+ +
Support for desktop and application virtualization
solutions with Remote User licenses
+ +
Deployment in Microsoft Azure + +
Concurrent licensing +
Additional PDF Viewer app for organizations,
compatible with Concurrent licenses
+
Customize FineReader PDF settings using
Group Policy Objects (GPO)
+ +
Licensing for using FineReader PDF with RPA solutions +
WIX-based installer + +
Supported applications and formats
To view the full list of supported applications and
formats, please visit the FineReader PDF website:
pdf.abbyy.com/specifications/
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pdf.abbyy.com/finereader-pdf-for-mac/specifications +
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1
A separate mobile app, ABBYY FineReader PDF Mobile for iOS, is required. A third-party cloud storage must be used for the file
exchange.
2
According to internal testing done by ABBYY.
3
Hot Folder is capable of processing up to 5,000 pages per month (the number of pages resets every 30 days) and uses up to 2
CPU cores for the document conversion.
4
Extended CLI enabled licenses are time- and page-limited and shall be purchased separately. Please contact Sales team through
pdf.abbyy.com for details.
