FineReader: PDF Scanner App 4+

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 ?

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

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.

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

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

Thank you for your feedback! We have forwarded your comments to the Research and Development Department of our company. Regards,

ABBYY Mobile