
Here’s some info on the document that I used: In all cases except one, I scanned without OCR so that I could run it standalone later. It probably would have been better to do this with a bunch of different documents to compare, but hey. I scanned a magazine article for this test. Yes, I realize that Adobe Acrobat X is out, but since I am not aware of any scanners that come bundled with it yet, I decided to stick with the versions that ship with the ScanSnap. Mac: ABBYY FineReader For ScanSnap 4.1 (run standalone) vs.Windows: ABBYY FineReader For ScanSnap 4.1 (called from ScanSnap Manager) vs.Mac: An old 2.5 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro with 4 GB RAM running Mac OS X Snow Leopard.Windows: A new cheap Acer laptop with a Core i3 2.40 GHz processor and 4 GB RAM running Windows 7.



I decided to do a quick test comparing the OCR of the two packages using the following criteria: Why? Well, for starters, both of them come included with models the Fujitsu ScanSnap as well as other scanners. A very common request that I get here at DocumentSnap is to compare the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) capabilities of ABBYY FineReader with Adobe Acrobat.
