Manage your documents more easily and run all document processes faster in digital workflows.

Achieve new levels of productivity by converting documents with the latest OCR technology and easily view and reuse content from PDFs of any type.

Provides an effective solution for all your OCR tasks, regardless of their complexity: from quick OCR and conversion tasks to complex scenarios with advanced settings.

Reliable features for your digital workplace

Work efficiently with PDFs in the digital workplace. Perform multiple document-related tasks in a single application. Reduce costs by investing in fewer separate software components. Increase the efficiency of your daily work by reducing the number of applications you use and avoiding duplication of effort. Benefit from a simple, straightforward user interface and high-quality results.

Digitize paper documents and scans with OCR

Take advantage of the digital way of working by digitizing paper documents and scans for storage, quick and reliable retrieval, or immediate reuse and editing. You too can benefit from the unparalleled accuracy of our market-leading AI-based optical character recognition (OCR) technology and simplify all your document-related tasks.

Digitize documents and turn them into searchable PDFs

Easily digitize documents and convert them into searchable PDFs so you can quickly retrieve them from digital archives and access the information they contain. FineReader PDF for Mac® supports PDF/A format, the standard for long-term archiving, with conformance levels and variants from PDF/A-1 to PDF/A-3.

Reuse and edit

With the fast conversion scenarios, you can convert paper documents and scanned files into documents for Microsoft® Word®, Excel®, Apache OpenOffice and other popular applications. ABBYY's AI-based OCR and document conversion technologies ensure the highest accuracy and preserve layout and structure for effortless further editing and use.

Advanced document conversion

Manage the text recognition and document conversion process down to the last detail. Advanced conversion tools and options enable streamlined document conversion and provide the flexibility that specific documents and tasks may require.

Powerful tools let you adjust the size, position, and shape of text, image, and table areas, add or delete areas, change area types, optimize table structures, and define text properties even for individual areas. In this way, the layout of the document remains as true to the original as possible. Accuracy and consistency are further improved.

Save disk space

Reduce the file size of your PDF documents several times over without noticeably affecting the visual quality: with MRC (Mixed Raster Content) compression.

Prepare document content for speech synthesis (TTS)

All you need to do is convert the desired paper documents or PDFs into a supported electronic format using FineReader PDF. The files will then be automatically made accessible via speech synthesis (TTS).

Convert PDFs to editable formats 

Convert any type of PDF to a variety of editable and searchable formats such as Microsoft® Word®, Excel®, RTF, ODT, etc.

Convert PDFs into fully editable formats

Quickly convert your PDFs into fully editable formats such as DOCX, XLSX, RTF, ODT, PPTX, etc., and combine the content of multiple PDFs into one document if needed. ABBYY's intelligent OCR and PDF conversion technologies ensure the highest recognition accuracy and preserve document layout and structure for effortless further editing.

Advanced PDF Conversion

Advanced conversion provides a range of tools and options for adjusting ranges and defining the structure of tables and text properties, as well as document languages. It provides precise control and exceptional flexibility when converting PDF documents into editable file formats.

Make PDFs searchable

PDF-to-PDF conversion lets you make all your PDF files searchable and ready for archiving.

Digitize scanned PDFs

Convert scanned or other image-based PDF files into a 100% searchable document to find information in seconds, whenever you need it.

Prepare PDFs for digital archiving

Ensure your PDFs are suitable for long-term archiving by converting them to the industry-standard PDF/A format with the required conformance level (from PDF/A-1 to PDF / A-3).

Create PDFs from document images and paper documents

Create searchable, industry-standard PDFs from scans, document images, scanned PDFs, or paper documents for effective and secure collaboration, search, reliable archiving, and accessibility. Protect created PDFs to minimize security risks.

Create industry-standard PDFs

Create PDFs that conform to industry-standard ISO specifications. The range of supported PDF formats includes PDF/A for long-term archiving and PDF/UA to ensure that the necessary information can be accessed when using assistive software such as screen readers.

Protect PDFs with passwords

Manage access to the content of created PDF files with passwords to restrict opening of the document itself or actions that affect the content - such as printing, editing, or extracting information.

Mac-like user experience

Completely new user interface

FineReader PDF for Mac® has been completely redesigned to meet the demanding requirements of the Apple ecosystem. It offers a brand-new, modern user interface that supports the latest macOS features, helps you streamline document work and ensures a smooth user experience.

Dark mode support

Select the dark theme for FineReader PDF to customize the appearance to your Light Mode and Dark Mode system settings.

System requirements:

Operating system

• macOS® 10.15 Catalina and later versions

Hardware

• Mac® computer with Intel ® processor
• Hard disk space: 3 GB for the usual program installation
• 4 GB RAM