Speaking of OCR (optical character recognition) software, ABBY FineReader is probably the first one that comes to mind for office gens or any users who often deal with text and typesetting, whose function is undoubtedly the most powerful. But here AppNee wants everyone to know about another super-powerful OCR software - it's Readiris developed by IRIS from Belgium. Its existence directly leads to such a result: ABBY FineReader has been unable to dominate the entire OCR industry all the time.

PDF-XChange PRO is a fully functional PDF suite developed by Tracker Software from Canada. It integrates three major components: PDF-XChange Standard (the ultimate application for the creation and virtual printing of industry-standard PDF files); PDF-Tools (a worldwide leader in the creation and manipulation of PDF and image files); and PDF-XChange Editor Plus (a hugely dynamic and fully-customizable PDF application) in one bundle.

PDF Shaper is a free and very practical all-in-one type of PDF managing tools box from Spain. Its functions cover almost any aspects of daily PDF files managing operations. Although the inbuilt functions are numerous, it comes with small file size and low system resource occupancy. Plus, because of its intuitive and elegant user interface, users are able to get started with it in no time! In a word, it's a necessary and efficient PDF toolkit.

For any PDF solutions that want to grab the market share from Adobe Acrobat, it has to start from the availability and usability. In this case, the performance of Bluebeam Revu makes users' eyes bright at the moment.

As Microsoft's partner, Foxit Software company has a number of award-winning products, especially its most popular Foxit PDF Reader for both free and commercial uses. And the Foxit PhantomPDF provides a centralized and complete PDF document solution specially for business/company users, and it has become a sensible alternative to Adobe Acrobat for an increasing number of commercial users.