Buggy, sluggish, barely works at all — a waste of money

I bought this thinking it would speed up my OCR processing and make it more accurate, but it didn’t take long for me to realize the program I was already using (OCRKit) is much, much better overall. Fine Reader doesn’t deal well with large pdfs — usually they cause it to crash at one stage or another. And often the app crashes before it even opens up. Today I had to Force Quit it because it froze up while reading a pdf of 800+ pages. When I try to open the program back up, it asks me whether I want to recover the file I was using. I say yes, but then nothing happens: the program doesn’t open, the document isn’t restored, nada. ABBYY ought to test this software thoroughly, and say what it will actually do without crashing so that people don’t waste their money. No one should assume that all users are usng OCR for documents of just a few pages. I wish I could have my money returned.

Detroit68 about FineReader OCR Pro