ABBYY FineReader vs Easydict
ABBYY FineReader and Easydict are both document management software. ABBYY FineReader is a commercial product from ABBYY. Easydict is open source under GPL-3.0, with 15k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick ABBYY FineReader when
- You regularly need accurate OCR of scanned documents into editable formats on your own computer.
- Pick Easydict when
- You read or write in several languages on a Mac and want quick lookups.
Side by side
Desktop OCR and PDF editor that converts scans to searchable PDF, Word or Excel, compares documents and edits PDFs.
A macOS dictionary and translation app that looks up selected text or OCR'd screen text across Apple, DeepL, Google, OpenAI and Chinese translation services.
It is now subscription-priced and is a desktop tool rather than an automation pipeline.
Several services need your own API keys, and docs lean Chinese.
Production-ready (both)
Desktop app (both)
Not published
Swift, Objective-C and Python
Closed source, sold by ABBYY
Open source, GPL-3.0 (strong copyleft)
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
Use inside your business is unrestricted, but anything you distribute that includes it must be released under the same license.
143 Wikipedia readers a month on phones
15k GitHub stars
Not known
Established: started 4 years ago, latest release 2.25.0.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.