Is this a joke? Unusably slow, Tools don’t work, Inefficient, Frustrating. Stay with Acrobat Pro

This is not like other “Pro” apps. And it doesn’t do much of what it claims to do. What it does do, it does poorly compared to other “Pro” apps.

APPEARANCE: The UI looks alright — e.g., better than other “Pro” apps like Acrobat Pro. That’s about the kindest thing I can say about this.

UNUSABLY SLOW: The app takes 5+ minutes to open a 20 page PDF. The same document opens in less than 3 seconds in Acrobat Pro. When selecting a new page of a PDF, there is a 5-15 second delay before the page shows un in the editing pane. There is no delay in other apps like Acrobat Pro.

TOOLS DON’T WOKk: The object selection tool cannot select (or edit or remove) MOST (any?) objects (e.g., text, images, etc. — even when you save the PDF in a way that preserves layer info). Acrobat Pro does this quickly and without hiccup.

INNEFFICIENT: Even the simplest tasks (e.g., opening a 20 page PDF) causes my Mac’s fan speed to run at top speed and drastically reduce my battery life (e.g., roughly half of otherwise expected battery life). I never have this problem in Acrobat Pro — unless I am OCRing a huge 500+ PDF scan or something intense like that.

FRUSTRATING: Files are automatically altered. upon opening E.g., when opening a 10 page PDF slide presentation, slides that were half image and half text were turned into separate pages — one page with the image and another page with the text. Further, some images in the original just didn’t show up when opened in Finereader (usually when the images overlapped with text). Other well-known apps like Acrobat Pro never do this.

Much of these issues seem to conflict with the claims in this app’s descrption.

I am very dissappointed that I paid for this — even the discounted rate was way too much for what this app does. I hope I can be refunded.

Byrd Nick about FineReader OCR Pro