While supporting many languages, some users experienced inconsistencies with non-English, specifically with diacritical marks.

Users needing superior OCR (Optical Character Recognition) to convert scanned PDFs, images, or documents into editable formats like Word or Excel.

Useful feature that highlights changes between two versions of a document.

(the predecessor to functionality now found in FineReader PDF 15/16) was generally praised as a strong, user-friendly OCR and PDF editing tool. However, note that ABBYY PDF Transformer+

Converts PDF files to Word, Excel, HTML, and other formats.

Features a simple interface that facilitates quick edits, such as changing text or rearranging pages.