Customer Reviews

PDF Converter for Microsoft Word

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As they would say on American Bandstand, I would give this title a 65 - the lyrics are ok but its easy to dance to. I do A LOT of pdf crap (and i hate pdf) both converting too and from. For some conversions (NOT COMPLEX GRAPHICS) it works well, for others it is so-so.
It does do a BETTER job, converting from pdf - at least on the long, complex-formated text documents - which are my primary beast of burden, than Adobe PRO 6.0. Howver Scansoft has some quirk's that potential buyers need to be aware of -
1. It messes up haeaders and footers - it captures them just fine but puts them in funky places as a table and of couse screws up the page numbering,,,
2. On occasion (and this is the frustrating part) it converts text into graphics,,,
3. It handles check boxes and the other vbs features of WORD poorly, often creating them as graphics
4. It routeinely messes up autonumbering, again often picking up a number and making it a graphic
However, having said all that - it is quicker/faster/better than Adobe Pro 6.0. for Word conversions. Sometimes its a dozen hand fixes per page, other times one or two, but i will gladly trade that for rekeying or scanning.
For the record, I have an old version of Omni-Pro and DID NOT try to use its features as suggested.
I am glad I own it but I dont think I am taking it to the prom.

One purchase is good for one install only! The activation blocks it from re-install. My laptop died and I was unable to install this on the replacement machine VAIO. Got total use of 4 months for $50 purchase!

Good luck if your hard drive crashes or machine dies.

Having used this product on large (more than 500 pages) and complex documents, my conclusion is that this could be a very good product. Unfortunately, the software has some logic flaws that cause it to fail repeatedly on specfic text formatting. For example, consider the following listing:
a. Data Element
b. Data Element Tag
c. Element Number
d. Group Number
The application always fails on this and similar listings by randomly deleting the new paragraph marker and setting the right margin incorrectly. Too bad that Scansoft support, which could alert developers to this type of problem, is the worst I have ever encountered. Perhaps someone from Scansoft will read this review and fix this problem and other problems encountered by customers.

This software is terrible. I've only turned a few PDF files into Word files but they are not even close to the original. Total waste of money for me.

I downloaded this software to convert a two-page PDF document into an editable Word 2000 document. Much of the text converted well but the more complex areas of my PDF file, those that were contained inside of tables, were poorly done. Portions of it were rendered as images(!), while other parts came through properly as text inside of tables. However, much of that text was inside of frames, or even nested frames. Frames are Word objects that are tricky at best, and frustratingly hard to deal with at worst. Removing a frame often removes its contained text as well. Either way, editing the converted document so as to make it look like the original was very difficult. In the case of the portions that converted to images, it was impossible.
The product installs/uninstalls easily and seems to run well. If you're converting simple PDF files, this product may do the job but for complex documents, especially ones containing tables, I would not recommend it.

For a change, an easy to use software that does EXACTLY what I need it to do. Further, it does it almost instantaneously. What a software! What a price!

This is the first time I've reviewed a product online, but this one upset me enought to complain. They say in the Quick Reference "Most pdf files contain a text layer with standard encoding"... not in my experience! It does a beautiful job of converting what it calls these "normal" pdf files, but nowhere on the box or in the ads does it say that these are files only created with a text layer from Office products like Word or Excel. Scanned pdfs (like the vast majority I work with) coming from scanners via Acrobat, for example, do not have a text layer - they are purely images, and PDF Converter cannot touch these. You find this out when you install it, try and fail to convert file after file, and then go to the help files - it's not even in the 2-page Quick Reference. I was able to convert 2/10 pdfs I needed to work with. I'm returning it (J&R accepts 30-day returns) A deceptively advertised product. It's easier for me to print the pdf out and process it with AAbby reader.

It's about time that someone came out with this product! PDF files are so difficult to deal with, and our firm often has no way to track down the original. PDF Converter is fast and gets all of us back into Word so we can make adjustments. We've been using it for contracts, but I'm sure it would work great for any files. Documents look perfect. Great Product!

I just purchased my PDF Converter for using on Microsoft Word. I have converted all of my legal texts in about 1 hour. This represents several hundred pages of documentation. Have reviewed for mistakes but could not find any. This works better than anticipated and will save thousands of dollars in man hours. Wish this would have been released sooner.

This software only works on NON-ENCRYPTED pdf files. I paid too much money for something that did nothing for me. It read the pictures or scanned files, but not the text oddly enough. It was a waste of my money and my time to install and attempt to convert the file. I wish I would have checked to find out if it was encrypted or not. I might just end up selling it and hopefully get most of my money back.