PDF2Office Professional for Mac

User Reviews

• Doesn't Work. Period.

  digbert22/18/2012

  Pros

  Cheap, compared to other .pdf converters.

  Cons

  Couldn't even convert a simple RMV form into MS Office. Let's not even talk about preserving formatting--the text was nothing but jibberish. Sorry I ever bought this.

  Summary

  Ripoff.

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• I'm sorry I ever bought it.

  allenkelson--200810/29/2011

  Pros

  It often does a half-decent job converting pdfs to Word docs

  Cons

  A half-decent job means you'll spend much more time fixing errors caused by type-size or font changes or cleaning out dozens of errors put in by bad scanning. I've often found it better to do the transfers manually. Next time I'll try the equivalent of Dragon Speak on my iPhone and just email the doc to myself. That's sure to be quicker, even with my bad diction.

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• CNET says it's not the latest version

  oppyxray7/12/2011

  Pros

  Mediocre PDF converter. OK for the price (probably).

  Cons

  CNET keeps claiming my downloaded version id not 5.1 but the program +About" lists it as 5.1.0 although it show it on the dock as 5.0.

  Summary

  Is it all worth it? Maybe!!!

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• Just didnt work

  tigerandyx91/27/2011

  Pros

  Seems easy to use.

  Cons

  Just did not produce a readeable document for Office Student Teacher version

  Summary

  did not produce a readeable document for Office Student Teacher version

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• Would not install

  powerbooktom13/12/2009

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  Summary

  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Could not get this to install.

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• output appears to be useless

  register193/6/2007

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  Summary

  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I checked out the trial version today on a quite simple pdf document, just formatted text with some pictures, compatible to Acrobat version 5. The output I have got from the app is editable with M$ Word, but the formatting is screwed up totally. It should be much easier to make a new Word file from scratch. At least the application did not crash on my system, as reported from other users. The uninstall feature of the installer seems not to be operational.

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• output appears to be useless

  register193/6/2007

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  Summary

  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I checked out the trial version today on a quite simple pdf document, just formatted text with some pictures, compatible to Acrobat version 5. The output I have got from the app is editable with M$ Word, but the formatting is screwed up totally. It should be much easier to make a new Word file from scratch. At least the application did not crash on my system, as reported from other users. The uninstall feature of the installer seems not to be operational.

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• Doesn't work at all

  djsmorton10/12/2006

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  Summary

  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />The software crashed each time I tried to use it. Everything looks fine until you hit the conversion button, then Wham! It quits unexpectedly with errors including: Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001) Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS (0x0001) at 0x0f06426c

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• Better use your scanner

  FaZant4/1/2005

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  Summary

  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />The program takes out the text fine, however the layout is a disaster. With a somewhat complicated document you may end up spending more time on reformating then you would have used when you had retyped the text by hand to start with. 2.1 is better than 2.0 though, maybe wait for 2.3 or greater?

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• good idea, execution is lacking

  pfed2/14/2005

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  Summary

  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />The Good:converted complex 50 page .pdf file in 5 minutes on 4 year old G4 powerbook. Most of plain text was correct and usuable. Much (~75%) of formatting was fine. The Bad: 50 page document would take 5+ hours to clean up. Headers and footers are treated as part of the main text. Some headers disappeared entirely; others were partially converted and partially lost, appearing on some but not all pages. Footers became part of the text with some loss of formatting, appeared on first few pages and then were dropped. Some unusual symbols (euros, infinity) were not converted correctly. Some lines had loss of formatting. Typefaces changed randomly within a paragraph, and usually did not match original (which was Times New Roman). Hard page breaks and many hard line returns were added. Many paragraph breaks were lost. Spaces between numbers and words (1 Jan 2004) were randomly lost. Right justification was ignored. Indentation was sometimes correct, often not. Bullet points were changed to file folders. Converted Gant/Pert charts were unusable. Some formatting within charts was lost (centered, etc). Additional blank cells were added to some charts, and some cells were split. SOME CHARTS WERE ENTIRELY DELETED. DIAGRAMS WERE MANGLED, MISPLACED AND UNUSABLE. They obscured some text before and after their normal insertion point. Formatting of signature blocks on contracts was not retained. Table of contents was not recognized as such, so page numbers were incorrect (copied directly rather than being updated to reflect the program's formatting choices). Document produced by trial software is unuable because it contains a background (PDF2Office trial Background) on each page that cannot be deleted. These are only SOME of the MANY, MANY problems that occurred using this software. Recosoft should have released this software as an early beta! To ask to be paid (quite a lot) for this garbage is shameful. Who do they think they are? Microsoft?

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