ABBYY FineReader is a document processing tool that uses OCR technology to read text from scanned documents, edit PDFs, and convert files between formats. However, businesses are finding it falls short in five key areas: processing multiple documents is slow and needs manual work, working with complex document layouts reduces accuracy, connecting to modern business tools requires extra development, costs increase quickly when processing more documents. To address these issues, several alternatives have been identified as potential replacements for ABBYY FineReader. These include Readiris Pro, OmniPage Ultimate, Adobe Acrobat, Nitro Pro, Foxit PDF Editor, PDFelement, Nanonets, Rossum, and Square 9 Softworks. Each alternative has its strengths and weaknesses, and the choice of which one to use will depend on specific document complexity requirements, integration needs, cost considerations, and automation requirements.