ABBYY FineReader PDF - the first smart AI-powered scanner that turns your mobile device into an all-purpose tool to quickly capture docs and books, create electronic copies in PDF and JPEG, and extract texts from scans for further editing and sharing.
FineReader PDF - the top mobile scanner for iPhone or iPad from ABBYY, a Digital Intelligence company.
*** Ranked #1 Business application in 98 countries ***
*** Winner of SUPERSTAR Award in the "Document Capture" category in the Mobile Star Awards ***
Use FineReader PDF to scan paper documents, books, agreements, receipts, magazine articles, notes, recipes, charts, tables, slides, whiteboards, or even billboards on the street and get perfect digital copies.
KEY FEATURES
• PDF & JPEG. Scan any text and save scans to JPEG images or cross-platform PDF documents.
• OFFLINE OCR. Quickly extract text from scans into TXT format on your device without an internet connection.
• ONLINE OCR. Recognize text (OCR) on scans in 183 languages (including Latin, Cyrillic, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean alphabets) and choose from among 4 output formats.
• SHARE & EXPORT. Send results by email, to FineReader PDF for Windows, save in cloud storages - iCloud Drive, Dropbox, Google Drive, Yandex.Disk, Evernote, OneDrive for Business, and more.
• LIVE TEXT. Make phone calls, send emails, follow the links, and more from scanned docs.
• ABBYY NEURAL NETWORK. The smart gallery will automatically classify documents into 7 types: A4, books, business cards, handwritten, IDs, other docs, and receipts.
• SEARCH TEXT ON PHOTOS. Type the text from a photo into a Search field in the gallery. FineReader PDF will find photos that have this text.
• AR RULER. Define doc size in AR. It will be useful for non-standard documents and further printing them out in proper proportions.
• SIRI SHORTCUTS. Open scans with Siri and set the flow of actions with scans using Shortcuts app.
• ANNOTATE SCANS. Discover a set of easy-to-use tools to modify your PDFs: add your signature or a text box, use a highlighter, write with a pen, or conceal content with the redaction tool.
• 3D TOUCH & SPOTLIGHT SEARCH SUPPORT.
• PASSWORD ON PDF. Add a password for the image-only PDF files while exporting and sending via email.
• MULTIPAGE DOCS. Create, edit, and enhance separate images or large multi-page documents without any additional selection on the viewfinder.
• AUTO-CAPTURE AND FILTERS. Excellent visual quality with auto-capture of page boundaries and advanced image filters, which process scans in color, greyscale, or black-and-white versions.
• BUILT-IN FILE STORAGE. Save scans inside the app with tags and search capabilities.
• Transfer docs to your Mac or PC using Home Sharing.
• AIRPRINT. Print out scans directly from your iPhone or iPad.
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Just downloaded but no camera images shown on screen and app is locked up so that exit button top right doesn’t work. Am I doing something wrong or is it untested on this model ?
Developer Response
Please check whether FineReader PDF has permission to use your device camera. You can provide permission in iOS settings (go to **Settings** » **Privacy** » **Camera**). If the issue is still actual, please specify the situation in more detail and write us an email at mobile_support@abbyy.com. We will do our best to resolve the issue. Have a nice day,ABBYY Customer Support
Not IOS friendly
ReallyOldSurfer
At first sight, the reviews of this app were encouraging, but the reality is that it offers little practical result if you just want use the std IOS apps like notes, pages or PDF entries in iBooks for the destination of what you scan. By contrast, I can take a photo on my iPad, convert it to a PDF image in iBooks or copy the image into a note in about 20 seconds. If I upgrade to iOS 11, then there are further editing tools to use in iBooks as well.So the only advantage to me would be the ability to edit/copy/paste the actual text, which with this app, requires far more investment in my time and other text handling apps, which I don't want just to get some occasional editable text. I also think that needing a connection for the app to work is more to do with the developer's marketing and income. They claim that their app is too big, several of my navigation apps for Europe are in excess of 1GB which is bigger than their 800MB. There are plenty of places where you are lucky to get an (E)dge connection, never mind a faster 3/4G link or free wifi.
Developer Response
Hi! Thank you for taking the time to bring up these issues via your review! We really want to fix it. In case of any issues with the app you can always contact our Support Team, they are happy to help: mobile_support@abbyy.com. Regards, ABBYY Mobile Team
Expensive for sub par execution in class
Liminal boy
The OCR is great, everyone that has ever looked into this knows ABBYY is about as good as the tech can be, but it suffers from poor execution in the app. 1.) It is not as fast as other, cheaper scanner apps 2.) edge and boundary detection is spotty 3.) you can auto-upload to cloud services, but for some bizarre reason the only option is to auto upload BEFORE doing the OCR. So the process goes: snap document-autoupload-select manually to perform OCR-manually upload doc to cloud after recognition 4.) this is important to note because recognition can take a long time. There is no option to locally OCR your doc, it has to be bounced around the world first 5.) because of all of the above it is very difficult to get a good workflow going and keep track of what you have or haven’t uploaded to your records if you’re doing a large pile of scans. Do yourself a favour and only buy this if it significantly improves or you just have a thing for paperless software
Developer Response
Thank you for your feedback! We have forwarded your comments to the Research and Development Department of our company. Regards,ABBYY Mobile
Good when it works, absolutely frustrating when it doesn’t
LukeCFX
I paid the full amount for this on the basis of reviews and, when it works, it scans well, quite quickly, and has very good OCR. However, having used it for only two days, the need to connect to the Abbyy server over the internet to use even its basic scan features is posing a serious problem. Often I get an ‘Internal server error’ message from the app when using it to scan, preventing it from completing the scan, and have no way to resolve this problem. Worse, when it does this half way through scanning a long document, you lose all your progress with the pages scanned. 3 hours trying to scan 50 pages and I’ve still not even managed to get this to work. I can find no assistance for this on the net and am now stuck with an app that cost over £50 and is extremely unreliable. Very frustrating.
Developer Response
Thank you for your feedback. We sincerely want to fix the situation that you encounter in the application. Please specify the situation in more details and write us a letter to mobile_support@abbyy.com. Have a nice day,ABBYY Mobile
Fixed an issue with our image picker that prevented users from choosing photos that were not in an album
Version 16.0.2
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Information
Provider
ABBYY USA Software House Inc
Size
134.9 MB
Category
Business
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
Apple Vision Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
Languages
English and 10 more
English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese
