FineReader: PDF Scanner & OCR

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1. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   This app may be fine, but…. Their Mac app is impossible to buy, and their support is non-existent

2. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Kalifornia UI…..Whitespace Uber Alles!!. Kalifornia UI….Whitespace Uber Alles!!

3. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   OCR my rear end. Well, the app doesn’t scan good enough to make the scan searchable. Waste of my money.

4. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   😔. I used this app for years and I accidentally updated all my apps, this one being one of them. The update is the worst and now I am forced to go to premium, no easy upload to the cloud, and fine print does not come in clear and concise as it did prior to the update. Now I have to find another app to use!

5. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   Another great app ruined. Premium subscriber for years using it to create pdfs from photo scans. Now it just slaps a photo onto a white background. WTH? What is the point of this app now?

6. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   Features removed. Features are behind a different paywall now, separate from what you may have purchased before. You also can’t open files from your phone for OCR it seems, only the camera roll or camera app— even with the new monthly subscriptions.

7. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   DO NOT BUY!!!!!!!. I can’t go into my photos and compile a pdf. I had this app on my device for years.

8. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   Pretty much useless. Don’t pay; you’ll get screwed.. This app used to be very helpful; you could scan books, and it would separate the pages automatically. I paid a LOT for a license because that was very helpful and made scanning fast. But then they just REMOVED that feature - they didn’t replace it or change it, they just removed it completely. And now the app is pointless to me. I asked them more than once to return the book-scanning feature, but I guess they just don’t want to. So - don’t pay any money for this; they’ll probably remove more features, and then you’ll have to find another app. (Readdle’s Scanner Pro is pretty good… and THEY have the book-scanning feature now! Also… Scanner Pro is cheaper.)

9. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   How do you open a pdf?. This app is horrible. I can’t get it to open an existing pdf from OneDrive, Dropbox or box. Does it work with the files created via the app?

10. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    No Idea where my scans go. I am a premium member and I have emailed scans and I or the receiver have never received the email.

11. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Taking cost but others are free. Taking cost but others are frew

12. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Book Scan Gone. I have used this product for over 5 years. It was a lifesaver through grad school for scanning textbooks into ebooks for use with a text-to-speech. Now they take the book scan feature away. Why?! It now takes twice as long to scan a book. I have been a paying customer for years. Now you have lost me to Adobe Scan. Why would you bother to remove such a critical feature?

13. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Scam. I bought it for a one time fee. Then they switched to monthly subscription. Total rip off. Not worth it.

14. ★★★★★trial charges and refunds

    Super Sneaky. As a long time user and have purchased the app sometime ago, usage is now limited to a set number of pages, as if it’s a free trial, and is trying to force signing up fir a subscription. After years of having the app, it’s being deleted. While this was one of the few that did scanning and OCR early on, there are so many scanners and text converters now, where you get full functionality and no subscription fees. I’ll never trust buying anyhing outright from ABBYY.

15. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Used to be great. The app used to be great until they got rid of book scanning functionality with the latest update. And the OCR doesn’t work now either. Why would the developers ruin their app?

16. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Не запускается!. Приложение не запускается после обновления! iPhone SE 2020 iOS 16.0 Пишет идет оптимизация базы данных и идет сброс.

17. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Deleted within minutes. How does one get to the home spot. Stop the app from turning pages sideways.

18. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Only get worse. Use to be a very good app. Now its not working with voice over. Contacted them 2 months ago about the issue and still not resolved. I see here that last update was 3 months ago. I canceled my subscription which I had since 2018.

19. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    From great to really bad…... Had been using this scanner app for a few years now and thought it was the best thing ever until last week when all of my scanned documents just magically disappeared for no reason. Total inconvenience and catastrophic event.

20. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Nothing is obvious. Menus unhelpful. I own the desktop program and this is nothing like it. I cannot figure out how to create a new file. Open a file from somewhere else. Sign a file. Nothing. How could you do this so poorly?

21. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Impossible to cancel subscription. This app is mediocre at best, scans are NOT print ready, but worst of all the subscription renews automatically and can’t be canceled. It’s a trap.

22. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    FineReader. App. constantly shuts down since the last update. App. hasn’t been working properly for the past two months. It’s annoying when you’re paying for a subscription when it doesn’t work.

23. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Doesn’t work - scans and document is blank no one can help me figure it out. Super Glitchy and can’t get a hold of any support. Premium not worth it

24. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    What a joke of an app!. This app is a CamScanner without the ability to read a PDF from a cloud or local storage of an iPad. I don’t care how good the OCR is when used on an image. I need it to work on an existing scanned PDF!

25. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    $40 a month garbage. Total garbage

26. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Shame. Choosing some of the least spoken languages on earth and ignoring Arabic in recognition ? Like seriously ? This is very sad 💔

27. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Shady business. All my scans are gone due to the recent update where they force you subscribe.

28. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Server error. I've been using this app for years but now I just get a server error whenever I try to convert PDFs to OCR. This has been happening for months without getting fixed. I also don't know the difference between my 9.99 annual subscription and the new, more expensive one.

29. ★★★★★crashes, freezes and errors

    Broken. I’ve subscribed, but the OCR doesn’t work if you open up the PDF file in any other app later on,

30. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Forced review. I hate applications which force you to give reviews. No skip or cancel hence one star. Congratulations!