I use FineReader together having a scanner to practically eliminate paper from playing, making it hugely far more convenient to store and also retrieve what We need. For the most part I use it to turn scans into PDF FILE documents, which it does well -- as good as Adobe Acrobat (which is considerably more expensive). But it also does a very good job of turning tables of information into Microsoft Stand out spreadsheets. Producing good reproductions of documents available as Microsoft Word files is done much more difficult through the limitations of Word itself therefore you cannot count into it when the layout are at all complex, but FineReader does well at reproducing the writing.
When a doc is badly soft or smudged, or runs on the strange typeface, FineReader may not always read the writing entirely accurately. It provides efficient tools that will help you make corrections if need be. For many functions, however, I still find it best to save the final results as a PDF FILE with "text underneath the page image" (one regarding FineReader's standard settings). This gives you a file whose look matches that on the scanned document but which includes non-visible "hidden" text which might be indexed, searched intended for, or extracted. And FineReader is very efficient at producing the smallest possible PDF file that provides a good match to the document.
