The installation is pretty quick and simple. But that is more slow when it was only running on one core at a time. We also love that ABBYY has automatic processing so that you can dump PDF files into a certain folder and it will go through and look for new files every so couple of minutes, add them to the queue, and then it will process those. I highly recommend using the high end Intel processors with this software because of that and it will really show a big improvement. So each thread was actually processing a different page at the same time. Eventually we ended up with a Core i9 processor and each one of the threads gets treated separately. So speed was another factor too, at that point, when you're talking about scanning in 400 page documents, you needed to process as quickly as possible. That was a big plus for us because we do a lot of text searching on medical records, which can be hundreds of pages. Once we actually gave the trial a go, we found that it was very, very good at reading texts, even stuff that wasn't real clear, things that we had faxed to us that didn't have a good, clear image on them, it still managed to interpret it correctly. Main reasons we picked it were because of processing time and accuracy. So then we ended up trying out ABBYY and found that we could set it and get a version of it that ran on as many cores as you could throw at it. So we did some investigating and the next highest recommended we saw from Fujitsu was the ABBYY FineReader product. We had an eight core physical processor machine that it was running on at the time. Then we did some research on it, dug around and found out that it only would operate on one core of the process or no matter how many you had available and that they did not have a multi-core version that went beyond two cores. At the time we used it for a short while and found that it was very, very slow in processing the OCRs. We have Fujitsu scanners, and that's actually was the recommended software from Fujitsu.

We actually looked at a few different products but we ended up using ScandAll PRO.

I am system administrator in the legal industry and I give ABBYY FineReader PDF a five out of five.

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