You can read external reviews that mention the improved OCR accuracy. (That was only for FineReader Express, and it now seems to have disappeared.) So you'll have to make your decision based on review comments, I'm afraid. There no longer seems to be a link at ABBYY web site for 15-day trial versions. If you're in that small category, and your particular model scanner is not supported at any level by the manufacturer under the latest operating system, the obviously none of the performance improvements in the software will make any difference to you! However, for most people, I think the upgrade to ABBYY FineReader Pro from the Express version is worthwhile. That's not necessarily true across the board, because VueScan is also used to support older model scanners (or sometimes the ones people got that worked under Windows), where the manufacturer didn't issue updated drivers or the drivers didn't work particularly well. Also, a lot of people used to have to use a combination of VueScan and ABBYY FineReader Express for multi-page scanning, and now only need to use ABBYY FineReader Pro. Most of the people who upgraded to the Pro version did so for the better OCR, and not for any additional language features. That post contains a few more bits of information and links, but I think I've excerpted the highlights. HTH. ABBYY Student Savings Program page: A new purchase of ABBYY FineReader Pro from these pages with Educational discounts (currently) costs $69.99, while an upgrade costs $55.99. This information is excerpted from one of my archived Mac-Access list posts from December that discusses the upgrade.Store, these are the links for Educator and Student discounts: You'd have to check whether there is a similar program and web page site for your own country. The links are specific to each country's store, and I know that you're not in the U.S., but I can only navigate to the ones for my country. In addition, the ABBYY web site store offers educational discounts for both new and upgrade purchases of their software. The main differences are that versions from the ABBYY web site store will support Mac OS X Lion and above (while the Mac App Store version requires Mountain Lion and above) and that subsequent updates to the app have to be run from within the app, rather than checking for updates under your Mac App Store purchases. Alternatively, you can purchase the new Pro version from the Mac App for full price ($99). If you already have the Express version purchased either from the Mac App Store or directly from ABBYY's web site, you can upgrade to the Pro version for a reduced price ($79) by purchasing this directly from the ABBYY web site. The short answer is that ABBYY FineReader Pro is just as accessible as the Express version, but has a better (and faster) OCR engine, and more features, including expanded language support (mostly in terms of OCR recognition for languages like Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Arabic, Hebrew, etc.) as well as being able to handle an unlimited number of different languages in the same document (the Express version is limited to 3 languages), and support for password-protected PDFs.
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