PDF2Office 3.1 review

PDF2Office is a comprehensive PDF document conversion and data extraction tool.

License: Demo OS: Mac OS X File size: 10240K Developer: Recosoft Buy Now Price: $129.00 Updated: 14 Jul 2006

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PDF2Office is a comprehensive PDF document conversion and data extraction tool.

PDF2Office converts PDF documents into fully editable Microsoft® Word, RTF, AppleWorks, HTML and other files recreating the original construction and layout of the document.

PDF2Office forms paragraphs; applies styles; regroups independent graphics elements; extracts images; creates tables; processes headers/footers; endnotes/footnotes and columns/sections, all automatically - without any intervention.
PDF2Office integrates seamlessly with Microsoft Word X/2004, allowing you to directly open PDF documents within Microsoft Word.

PDF2Office provides options for converting a range of pages in a PDF document into popular word processing formats as well as image types such as JPEG, Photoshop, PNG and TIFF. Furthermore, it offers the capability to extract images from specific pages within a PDF document.

Here are some key features of "PDF2Office":
Convert PDF documents to Microsoft® Word, AppleWorks, and other common files
Convert PDF documents into fully editable Microsoft® Word, RTF, AppleWorks, Unicode, Text and HTML files. PDF2Office intelligently builds paragraphs, sections, columns, creates tables and regroups independent graphics to fully recreate the layout of the original file.
Open PDF documents directly within Microsoft® Word
PDF2Office integrates seamlessly with Microsoft® Word X/2004 allowing you to directly open PDF documents within Microsoft® Word.
Click Open
Right click on a PDF document on the desktop and have it open in Microsoft® Word.
Enhanced Mac OS X Integration through PDF2Office Services
Applications such as Pages, Keynote and TextEdit can directly retrieve the text contained in PDF documents via PDF2Office Services.
Convert PDF documents to graphics files
Convert each PDF page as a JPEG, PICT, TIFF or other image file, and specify compression and resolution settings.
Simple
Simply drag and drop to convert files using PDFOffice's easy-to-use all-in-one interface.
Quick
PDF2Office will convert the PDF file within seconds.
Extract
Extract text, images and/or other data from specific pages.
Quick Preview
Quickly view the text/native pages of a PDF document.
Multilanguage/Asian Language Support
Supports English, Japanese, Chinese, Korean and Western European-language data contained in PDF documents.
Batch Convert
Convert multiple files with one click.
Log Your Work
Automatically create a log of all files converted.

Limitations:
Expires in 30 days.
Only 10 conversions allowed.

What's New:
Partial Universal Binary
Parts of PDF2Office Professional are now a Universal Binary. When PDF2Office Services is used, text extraction from PDF files execute natively on Macintosh computers equipped with the Intel processor.
Modern Mac OS X Mach-O architecture
The entire back-end of PDF2Office Professional that performs the PDF to Office formats conversions has been migrated to the modern Mac OS X Mach-O architecture.
PDF Reconstruction v3.1 engine
The latest PDF Reconstruction v3.1 engine offers improved conversions to Word, RTF, AppleWorks and PowerPoint formats. All paths in PDF files are now converted to their equivalent in Word, RTF and PowerPoint resulting in crisp and clear anti-aliased curves. Improved support for various image color spaces and enhancements have also been made to the layout reconstruction process.
Font Substitution panel
A new font substitution panel has been introduced in PDF2Office allowing one to specify the substitution fonts on a per file basis.
Symbol encoding substitution
Font substitution can now be specified for Symbol based encoding.
Mac OS X System Requirement
The minimum system requirement for PDF2Office Professional 3.1 is now Mac OS X 10.3.