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FineReader: PDF Scanner & OCR

#12 of 52 in Document scanners

  • 62 of 100 · reviews
  • 4.7of 5 · store
  • 19,306ratings on the App Store
  • 428reviews read
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The proven ABBYY OCR engine in a mobile wrapper, with degradation since switching to a subscription model.

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What people use it for

Professionals with heavy document volumes who are willing to pay a subscription and can accept instability in new versions.

What reviews praise

  • Voice recognition is accurate.
  • Long-term users trust the scan and OCR quality for professional documents including invoices and legal papers.

What reviews complain about

  • After recent updates, OCR adds phantom text.
  • Auto-capture scans the same page multiple times.
  • The output format silently changed from PDF to JPEG.

What users experience

1 excerpt from the breakdown. These are individual cases, not a verdict on all users.

I've scanned a few chapters of a book to make searching the book easier for me. When I look at the text after it converts it to a text several sections are not recognized or readable.

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