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Recosoft Demonstrates New Version of PDF2Office Conversion Software

TMO at Macworld - Recosoft Demonstrates New Version of PDF2Office Conversion Software

by , 12:00 PM EST, January 11th, 2006

SAN FRANCISCO -- Recosoft, maker of PDF2Office, demonstrated a new version of their PDF to Office translation software at this week's Macworld Expo. PDF2Office can take a PDF document and translate it into multiple formats, such as Microsoft Word, RTF, AppleWorks and HTML. New in version 3.0 Professional is the ability to also export to Microsoft PowerPoint format. Paul Chadha, Director, took some time to demonstrate the software.

PDF2Office starts by, of course, opening a PDF document. Once it is open, you then select the type of file you'd like to convert it to. You can select from the aforementioned file formats, and even fine-tune for specific formats, such as exporting to Word 97 or Word 98 format. You can also select which portions of the document to export, such as properties, information, graphics, tables, page breaks and annotations. You then start the conversion operation.

One of the new features is intelligent font substitution, so that if a font isn't available, one as close as possible will be substituted, in the appropriate size. Another is support for languages, including English, Japanese, Chinese and Korean. There is also support for password-protected PDF files, assuming, of course, that you have the password.

PDF2Office Professional 3.0 will be available in February. Users who purchase the current Version 2.1 for US$129 will receive a free upgrade when the new product ships.

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Close Name:Dirt Road Posts: 1239 Joined: 24 Oct 2002
Subject: Good stuff

I wish the company I work for would site-license PDF2Office. I get people calling me on occasion, wanting to know if I can "get the Word file out of this PDF." With some free tools like Ghostscript, I can usually get at least the text out of it, but having something more-or-less formatted would be wonderful. The time-limited demo suggested that it would do the job.

Close Name:Lane Good Posts: 1 Joined: 25 Sep 2006
Subject: PDF2Office not worth it

If you want to convert to html, forget it. It uses very old html 3.2 NO divs, no css.

I does a very poor job at word conversion.

The support staff is argumentative and not at all helpful.

Save your money. Re-type your document.

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