[Athen] [EXT] alternatives to Abby Fine Reader

[Karen McCall]

Keep in mind that Kofax which now owns OmniPage, also has PowerPDF which is their PDF maker. It is the worst PDF conversion tool out there. PowerPDF thinks everything should be a P tag or a figure tag even is you've created an accessible document to begin with.

PowerPDF has regressed since Kofax took it over in 2019.

Cheers, Karen

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The on-board OCR in Acrobat is horrid! I always recommend using either ABBYY or OmniPage.

Cheers, Karen

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In my opinion, Adobe's OCR is never enough. It does a very poor job from my experience.

Another option that has always been good is Omni Page Pro. I haven't used it in years, but I still hear good reports.


Robert Lee Beach
Assistive Technology Specialist - Student Accessibility & Support Services

Kansas City Kansas Community College
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Hello all, with Abby Fine Reader moving to a subscription model I've been looking for other options to OCR trouble textbooks and documents. I'm just curious what you're using for fixing docs and books where Adobe Pro OCR isn't enough.

Thank you all,

Shaun H
SFCC

Shaun Hegney  (He / Him)
Program Specialist 2
Disability Access Services
Spokane Falls Community College
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