ScanSoft PDF Converter Professional 3.0 [Old Version]

by Nuance Communications, Inc.

Product Features

• Powerful document and form creation, conversion and editing
• Easily create 100% industry-standard PDF files that can be read, printed, or processed
• Easily edit directly within a PDF file
• Turn static PDF forms into fillable PDF forms or Microsoft Word forms
• Protect the integrity of your documents with powerful security features

Product Details

Product Manual [966kb PDF]

• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00094OT7C
• Item model number: M109A-G00-3.0
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 1, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (35 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,190 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #30 in Software > Business & Office > Document Management > Scanning & OCR

Product Description

Amazon.com

ScanSoft PDF Converter Professional gives you everything you need to create, convert, and edit PDF files--all within a single, easy-to-use application. Create high-quality PDF files from any PC application, complete with full color, watermarks and bookmarks. Turn existing PDF files into fully formatted Microsoft Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, and Corel WordPerfect documents, complete with text, columns, tables and graphics. And for the first time ever, static PDF forms can be turned into fillable forms--all with a single mouse click.

What's more, you also get the amazing ability to quickly and easily edit PDF files--from moving graphics to replacing text to adding highlights and sticky notes. Combine all of this with the new PDF Converter Professional mark-up tools, commenting and cutting-edge security features, and you truly have Better PDF for Business.

Edit
Easily edit directly within a PDF itself--add copy, delete, rearrange, even remove or change the position of charts and graphics. With PDF Converter Professional 3, it's as easy to access information within a PDF document as it was in the original file.

Create Easily make PDF documents that are compact and easy to e-mail, are universally viewable, and print just as they would in the original application. The PDF Create Assistant makes it simple to merge Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Visio, JPG, TIF, and even PDF files into a single multipage PDF document. What's more, you get all of the advanced features you need, including compatibility with other PDF applications, encryption and password security, compressed file sizes, font embedding, full color support, page merging and more.

Convert Easily Convert PDF Files to Microsoft Word, Corel WordPerfect, even Excel spreadsheets. Simply open your PDF file within the application and the conversion happens automatically. PDF Converter Assistant includes a built-in PDF viewer that lets you specify which pages of the PDF document you want to convert. Extract charts and graphs from PDF files, convert spreadsheets to editable Excel file, and turn static PDF forms into editable Microsoft Word forms.

Includes FormTyper
Stop printing PDF forms and filling out paper! With the revolutionary FormTyper you can easily make any PDF form fillable--then fill, save, and share electronically. Here's how it works:

Okay, but why PDF Converter Professional 3?
Within the professional office environment there are two predominant documents types that people work with on their PC every day--Microsoft Word and PDF files. Microsoft Word is great for editing, but isn't always the best format for sharing documents, especially outside an organization. PDF files are best for sharing secure and reliable electronic information, but like paper, PDF files create productivity issues when people actually need to access, repurpose, or edit the content locked in those documents. Until now the options available to the business community were expensive, cumbersome and often did not address the specific needs of the office environment. Enter PDF Converter Professional, the simple, reliable and affordable way to solve these document productivity issues.

Product Description

ScanSoft PDF Converter Professional gives you everything you need to create, convert and edit PDF files — all within a single, easy to use application. Create high-quality PDF files from any PC application, complete with full color, watermarks and bookmarks. Turn existing PDF files into fully-formatted Microsoft Word documents, Excel spreadsheets and Corel WordPerfect documents, complete with text, columns, tables and graphics. And for the 1st time ever, static PDF forms can be turned into fillable forms — all with a single mouse click. What’s more, you also get the amazing ability to quickly and easily edit PDF files — from moving graphics to replacing text to adding highlights and sticky notes. Combine all of this with the new PDF Converter Professional mark-up tools, commenting and cutting-edge security features, and you truly have “Better PDF for Business” more productively and efficiently compressed file sizes, font embedding, full color support, page merging and much more!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

53 of 55 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good product - mostly. Bad company - maybe., October 1, 2005

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Always a Critic "apa" (Pittsburgh, PA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: ScanSoft PDF Converter Professional 3.0 [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

Overall, this is a good product - with a few kinks. I agree with the one reviewer who commented on the lack of product support. The online PDF file just does not cut it. It tells you many things that the software can do but then fails to provide the "how to." Granted, it is a fairly simple program but the documentation is still lacking. The knowledge base is also less than adequate. As another reviewer mentioned, I also was unable to preserve links in any document conversion I tried - yes, I checked the document settings. When you go to the ScanSoft knowledge base and type in "link", you are presented with two solutions that simply do not work. I eventually found that the way to get the links to work - converting or printing from any source - was to 1) get the document converted over into PDF using PDF Converter Pro 2) manipulate and edit the document to your liking in PDF Converter Pro - they do have some get features here that blow Adobe away when you consider the price and the software footprint 3) save the document as PDF 4) then open the document up in Adobe Reader 7. Adobe Reader recognizes the links, PDF Converter Pro does not - this is a severe mistake on ScanSoft's part and you will not find this solution in their knowledge base (at least not at this time). For a while, I had PDF Converter Pro act as my default PDF reader, but then found it did not open links - went back to Adobe Reader - ScanSoft is now just an intermediary tool when they could have been a real challenge to Adobe. The two other things I don't like about ScanSoft is that 1) they charge $9.95 - which I refuse to pay - for technical support that should be included in a product manual 2) their registration procedure is not even disguised to look like they are actually taking in information for product affiliated reasons - it is a blatant market survey - and what is worse if you do try to register more than one product, they will ask you the same myriad questions each time. Other than that, it is a good product and does cut through a lot of the mess with document formatting and organization.

One last note - if you are going to upgrade - remove all previous versions first (along with the assistants) via add/remove programs, reboot, and then install - all windows apps need to be closed.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Why you should avoid this product, March 11, 2006

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John B. Joyce "sir-kilowatt" (Los Angeles USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: ScanSoft PDF Converter Professional 3.0 [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

The advertising hype about this software sounds great. The truth is far less. Trying to convert PDF to Adobe there were so many errors, I could have typed it from scratch faster! Plus once it installs and takes over as your main PDF reader, WATCH OUT! Many pages won't load at all, others load much slower than with Adobe. Some just come up blank.

Deal around this waste of money and time!

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars $9.95 just to REPORT a really bad bug?, March 7, 2006

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Bobby R. Treat "DrMajorBob" (Round Rock, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: ScanSoft PDF Converter Professional 3.0 [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

I get a Runtime Error from the MS C++ Runtime Library. At first it was on some files, now it happens on virtually EVERY file. I may have to get my money back from the credit card company.