I am always on the look out for something that will convert PDF back to a word doc. After Adobe allowed credit card info to be stolen, then waiting 6 weeks to notify people I dropped all my subscriptions with the company.

I was excited to see a PDF convert utility for today's giveaway.

When clicking on the 'About Us' page at ACPSoft customers are greeted with a long spill a special contact form link and two different email addresses. Wondering where this company is located.

After a little searching I see we had this software offered July 7, 2014. Click here (http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/acpsoft-pdfconverter/#comment-419354) to view Karl's review.

I personally cannot tell you everything Karl did however I will show you one convert. Here is a screen shot of the original pdf http://i.imgur.com/afnZFUr.png.

Then we have a screen shot of the converted document: http://i.imgur.com/dnM0qlS.png and http://i.imgur.com/sqGhVxo.png

As you can see this converter failed to properly convert the document.

Uninstalled.

Have a great day.

KyBunnies  –  9 years ago  –  ¿Te ha parecido útil este comentario? si | no (+109)

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Installed and registered without any problems, on opening a simple interface is presented.

Tested the programs ability to convert to word document format with a television PDF manual that combined graphics and text in a complex format.
Although the output produced was better than most converters it was still hardly usable.

The real difficulty in converting from PDF appears to be retaining a decent format; the best way of achieving this appears to be creating an image and then doing an OCR on the image, AABBY FineReader appears to use this method most successfully.
It does so by importing the PDF file and then converting it directly to word document format.
It is also available for $99 and if I was in the market for a converter this is the route I would take.

Today's download does offer some other functions that may make it useful to some people; it can convert to and fro between DOC, TXT and PDF, it can also convert from HTML to PDF, a real bonus.
If you only need to convert from PDF to DOC format then AABBY is the way to go but if you need the to and fro conversions today's download could be useful.

XP-Man  –  9 years ago  –  ¿Te ha parecido útil este comentario? si | no (+44)

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Oops, my bad.
From HTML to PDF should read PDF to HTML.
A bit of wishful thinking on my part, sorry!

Oops, my bad. From HTML to PDF should read PDF to HTML. A bit of wishful thinking on my part, sorry!
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XP-Man  –  9 years ago  –  ¿Te ha parecido útil este comentario? si | no (+28)

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So many converters, but rarely one that actually works at 100%. I guess this has something to do with how a document is "pre-formatted" and how the converter reads the format and then writes the output format to its liking, so to speak. Open Office format differs greatly to MS Word format, both output as *.docx but there are differences, and also perhaps if you use Adobe Acrobat Pro or something else. With that, I assume you would have to get the expensive road via Adobe and MS Word to get converters to do what they are supposed to do. A safe and free way to get things accurate comes at an expense, which is LaTeX. (however, you need to learn LaTeX first).

To round up, more effort on behalf of the developers is needed.

xenox  –  9 years ago  –  ¿Te ha parecido útil este comentario? si | no (+25)

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The program was also offered on 2015-03-01
http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/acpsoft-pdf-converter-2-0-2/#more-60089

Installation went fine.

Some test's (in Dutch)
PDF to DOC and TXT:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10366431/_GOTD/ACPSoftPDFConverter20_20150902/OmzettingSucces.png
Original:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10366431/_GOTD/PDF%27s/licentie_tot_publiceren.pdf
Doc-version:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10366431/_GOTD/ACPSoftPDFConverter20_20150902/licentie_tot_publiceren.doc
and the TXT-version:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10366431/_GOTD/ACPSoftPDFConverter20_20150902/licentie_tot_publiceren.txt

Another PDF to TXT
PDF:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10366431/_GOTD/PDF%27s/Feiten_%26_Cijfers_2014.pdf
TXT-version:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10366431/_GOTD/ACPSoftPDFConverter20_20150902/Feiten_%26_Cijfers_2014.txt

TXT to PDF
Original:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10366431/_GOTD/ACPSoftPDFConverter20_20150902/Info.txt
and the PDF(398Kb), which cannot be read by FoxitReader:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10366431/_GOTD/ACPSoftPDFConverter20_20150902/Info.pdf

This PDF failed:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10366431/_GOTD/PDF%27s/mars03rovers.pdf

And Foxit Reader can save TXT-text from a PDF.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10366431/_GOTD/ACPSoftPDFConverter20_20150902/mars03rovers.txt

Ootje  –  9 years ago  –  ¿Te ha parecido útil este comentario? si | no (+24)

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