# Benefits of Pro Office vs Pro if you already own ABBYY

**URL:** <https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/benefits-of-pro-office-vs-pro-if-you-already-own-abbyy/18530>\
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**Created:** [April 16, 2015, 2:29pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/benefits-of-pro-office-vs-pro-if-you-already-own-abbyy/18530 "2015-04-16T14:29:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![jonmoore](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@jonmoore](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/jonmoore)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2015, 2:29pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/benefits-of-pro-office-vs-pro-if-you-already-own-abbyy/18530/1 "2015-04-16T14:29:26Z")

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I never made the jump to the full ‘Pro Office’ product as I already own a license to ABBYY FineReader Pro - I own a DEVONthink Pro license, (the ‘Info Workers bundle’ with DEVONagent).

Are there any other key benefits (other than the Web Server, which I don’t require) of upgrading to Pro Office considering I already have my OCR needs covered?

Cheers,

jm

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**Author:** ![Greg\_Jones](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/user_avatar/discourse.devontechnologies.com/greg_jones/32/7251_2.png) [@Greg\_Jones](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/Greg_Jones)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2015, 2:42pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/benefits-of-pro-office-vs-pro-if-you-already-own-abbyy/18530/2 "2015-04-16T14:42:40Z")

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There is better email archiving and searching available with with Pro Office. A full comparison chart of the various editions is available [at this link](http://www.devontechnologies.com/products/devonthink/comparison.html).

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**Author:** ![jonmoore](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@jonmoore](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/jonmoore)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2015, 2:54pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/benefits-of-pro-office-vs-pro-if-you-already-own-abbyy/18530/3 "2015-04-16T14:54:38Z")

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Thanks for the quick reply Greg. I’ve already gone through the comparison charts on the DEVON website so I was looking more for real world use case scenarios that I might be missing.

Email archiving isn’t of interest as I have other solutions in place. And the comparison charts only highlights email archiving, the web server and OCR as the key differentiators.

I believe in supporting my most used software vendors as much as possible but I also believe in not paying for the same feature twice or paying for features that I don’t use.

Any other differentiators the comparison charts are missing?

Cheers.

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**Author:** ![Greg\_Jones](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/user_avatar/discourse.devontechnologies.com/greg_jones/32/7251_2.png) [@Greg\_Jones](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/Greg_Jones)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2015, 2:57pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/benefits-of-pro-office-vs-pro-if-you-already-own-abbyy/18530/4 "2015-04-16T14:57:59Z")

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> And the comparison charts only highlights email archiving, the web server and OCR as the key differentiators.

Those are the only differences. Sounds like you have all you need with the Pro version.

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**Author:** ![jonmoore](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@jonmoore](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/jonmoore)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2015, 3:06pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/benefits-of-pro-office-vs-pro-if-you-already-own-abbyy/18530/5 "2015-04-16T15:06:28Z")

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Thanks Greg.

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**Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 11:41am UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/benefits-of-pro-office-vs-pro-if-you-already-own-abbyy/18530/6 "2022-01-21T11:41:34Z")

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