REVISED: Message to ABBYY Marketing and Product Development Managers

This is an update to my 2014 Review. My hat is off to the ABBYY Marketing and Product Development because they did add AppleScript hooks to the product, which means their first-class OCR engine and conversion utility are more ameniable to inclusion in workflows! That has moved my rating from a ‘1’ to a ‘5

2014 Review Follows
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There is no question the OCR engine and conversion utilitiy are top notch. But this product is purposefully hobbled by the utter lack of AppleScript or Automator hooks to be useful in automated workflow where the addition of a scanned document to a MacOSX Folder can trigger FineReader OCR Pro run a conversion. Instead, ALL document OCR scans from pre-existing sources require either a drag and drop on FIneReader OCR Pro, or you have to use “File->Open” dialogs.

Bottom line : FineReader OCR Pro is a first class OCR engine and yet, worst of class for workflow inclusion due to ABBYY marketing & product management decisions to purposefully hobble this product’s support for AppleScript and Automator.

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