79%Would buy again
I bought the desktop app to turn a stack of supplier invoices into text the accounts package could read. It handles the standard layouts well, though one or two of the handwritten amounts still need checking by hand. Installation was easy and it's been reliable for months now. A bit of tidying is still needed, but it saves an afternoon each month.
Read moreThe first thing I noticed was the download link kept timing out, and it took most of an afternoon to get the installer. Once it was on, the scanning worked fine but the price felt steep for what I actually use it for.
Read moreI bought the desktop version back in 2015 to turn our paper ledgers into spreadsheets for the business, and I have upgraded it twice since. Each time the install has been quick and the old settings carried over without much fuss. The recognition on the newer releases is noticeably better with tables, which saves me a lot of tidying up. Wouldn't want to go back to doing it manually.
Read moreBought it to turn a few scanned forms into editable documents. It works, though it's slower than I expected on a big batch. Took a while to get the activation code sorted out.
I bought the standard OCR package to digitise some old family letters. The software does what it says for the most part, though it struggled with the faded ink on a few pages and I had to go over them by hand. Customer support took a few days to reply to my question about the licence, which was a bit slow. On balance it's acceptable for what I needed.
We needed to digitise a set of old club minutes so the committee could search them. The file kept timing out on the bigger scans and the support reply took nearly a week to come back. Once I split the scans into smaller batches it worked fine. Took longer than I'd hoped.
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ABBYY is a software company best known for its optical character recognition and document processing technology, which turns scanned pages, PDFs and photographs into searchable and editable text. Its products include FineReader for converting documents, Timeline for process mining and a set of enterprise tools that automate the capture and handling of business information. The company sells its software through its own online checkout as well as through partners and resellers, offering both downloadable licences and subscription plans.
ABBYY serves individual professionals, small businesses and large organisations across sectors such as finance, insurance, legal and government, many of which rely on its tools to digitise high volumes of paperwork. The company is known for the accuracy of its recognition engines and for supporting many languages and document formats, and its software is delivered digitally with support provided through its website and partner network.
