Some forums claim that ABBYY offers a portable version for enterprise IT admins via the "Administrator Deployment Kit." This is . While ABBYY allows silent installation (MSI deployment) across a network, the software still writes to the disk and registry. It is not "portable" in the sense of running from a USB stick without traces.

Abbyy FineReader 15 Portable is a portable edition of ABBYY FineReader 15 (OCR and PDF productivity software) packaged to run without full installation—useful on USB drives or locked systems. It offers OCR, PDF editing, conversion, and document comparison in a portable form of the core desktop app.

: Extracting data from tables in scanned invoices directly into Excel.

There is of ABBYY FineReader 15 (now rebranded as FineReader PDF ) .