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⭐⭐⭐⭐☆ (4.5/5)

I’ve used ABBYY FineReader for over a year now, primarily for converting scanned documents and image-based PDFs into editable Word/Excel files and searchable PDFs. The OCR accuracy is genuinely impressive – even with poor-quality scans, crooked pages, or low-resolution images, it reliably preserves formatting, tables, and special characters.