Essentials PDF-to-Word Convertor (PC CD)

Product Details

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• ASIN: B001W6Q9VU
• Release Date: 27 April 2009
  

By : Avanquest Software
Price : £8.00

Product Description

Manufacturer's Description
Convert your PDFs into formatted Word documents
This quick, easy to use and affordable conversion utility instantly converts PDF files to formatted Microsoft Word documents, whilst preserving layout and graphics.
Have you ever wanted to copy your PDF documents into Microsoft Word but been put off by expensive software?
PDF-to-Word can convert Adobe PDF documents into Microsoft Word format with a minimum loss of formatting information. This quick and easy to use conversion utility instantly converts PDF files to formatted Microsoft Word documents, whilst preserving layout and graphics.
If you want to test PDF-to-Word out, download the trial version and see for yourself how powerful and easy to use this product really is!
PDF-to-Word is a quick and easy to use conversion utility that instantly converts files to formatted Word Documents. You can now preserve your document layouts and graphics maintaining formatting information using PDF-to-Word Converter.
Select the PDF file you wish to convert and with one simple click you can convert the document to Microsoft Word. Once converted you can add/delete text, insert images and diagrams, and correct spelling mistakes. You can even change the layout of the text
With the ever increasing use of PDF formatted documents in the work, college and home environment, PDF to Word Converter is an ideal addition to your office software.

 

Essentials PDF-to-Word Convertor (PC CD)

 

Product Features

• Converts PDF images and drawings into an editable Word document
• Maintains original document layout
• Extracts paragraph alignment information
• Stand alone program – convert documents without having Adobe Acrobat or Reader installed
• Easy-to-use wizard-style interface – makes converting your PDF documents to Microsoft Word easier to do than ever before!
• No need for expensive PDF software

Customer Reviews

I wanted to convert language lessons I had bought as PDFs, as they each took up 9 pages and I could fit them onto 4 by copying and pasting onto word, but this took ages. I had 60 lessons to do. I quickly gave up, and thought I'd try this very cheap software instead.
The software was easy and very quick to install, although they do try to get you to go to a website and 'register' before they put up the installation options on the screen - so just give a false or old email if this happens, and remember to un-tick the usual boxes that result in junk mail.
The software worked very quickly on each document, the conversion took a couple of seconds. The results were pretty good overall. It kept font formats. It also separated the graphics, although the handles for selecting the graphic seemed to be much bigger. However, you could still perform the usual graphics operations in word (move and delete etc).
My only disappointment was the fact that it retained the hard returns at the end of each single line, I was hoping for word wrap so I could widen my margins and get more words onto a line. So although you can just narrow your top and bottom margin with no problem, you can not do anything about the right margin, unless you manually go in and delete each hard return on each line on your own and this can take ages. Because of this I only managed to get my 9 pages into 6. NOTE - you can select a 'no line breaks' option - but you then lose all line formatting (headings subheadings etc) and end up with one massive paragraph as it can't make a distinction between a line break followed by a blank line (which is a heading) and a line ending within a paragraph.
It will recognise tables, and reproduce their appearance, but will copy them as two columns with the table lines being a separate graphic, which you can move around separately. This is fine if you do not want to add to the table or edit it in any way.
In summary - it's cheap, quick to use, and it works well so it is worth buying, but I'd pay more for something that would remove the hard returns, yet keep the layout, if this were possible.

My needs for converting PDF to Word are fairly basic - although some of the documents are quite long, I tend to have little need to do anything involving complex graphics.
I have to say that I have found the software to be very impressive - quick and, more importantly, accurate for text-heavy documents.
As the other reviewer said, there are one or two matters that possibly could be improved, but then what software is perfect? For the money (Amazon under £6) I am seriously impressed. Worth buying I'd say.

 

Essentials PDF-to-Word Convertor (PC CD)