FineReader

FineReader currently runs on Apple Silicon Macs only through Rosetta 2 emulation — there is no native Universal Binary or native arm64 build available yet, despite the app remaining actively maintained by ABBYY. As of February 2026, ABBYY's support documentation explicitly states they do not have timeline information for native Apple Silicon support. This is a concern because Apple is removing Rosetta 2 in macOS 28 (September 2028), at which point the Intel-only FineReader build will stop launching entirely. Given that FineReader is still under active development (the latest version is compatible with macOS Sonoma and newer), contact ABBYY directly through their support portal to ask for a concrete timeline on native Apple Silicon support before macOS 28 arrives. If ABBYY does not commit to a native build before September 2028, consider Adobe Acrobat Pro DC or Wondershare PDFelement as alternatives — both offer robust OCR, PDF editing and document conversion features and are available with confirmed native Apple Silicon support, though neither quite matches FineReader's OCR accuracy on difficult documents. For now, FineReader remains functional, but clarifying ABBYY's roadmap sooner rather than later will help you decide whether to stay or migrate.