DeskUNPDF Converter for Mac

User Reviews

• Unsuccessful

  dabuntingNovember 23, 2012

  Pros

  Trial is free.

  Cons

  Trial version, tried for a half hour to convert to Word a clean pdf of a quite clean typewriter page typed in old Courier font every character of which was easily readable by eye on the pdf. It wrongly identified some 95% of the characters, result was completely unusable. I give it two stars because, for it to have done so poorly, I must have done something wrong, but hard to imagine how it could be so extremely wrong. I used OCR's including Omnipage a lot back in the 1990's, always had good results. Hope you have better luck- the trial is free. I also tried the same document using online product: http://online.pdftodocconverterpro.com/ but Word Mac 2011 couldn't read it, did it twice. Guess I'll have to just type it in. Mac Mini Core 2 Duo 2GHz OS10.6.8 2G 120G

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• There were a number of difficulties

  dmoorman4September 22, 2012

  Pros

  At times it would provide a usable translation from a pdf to a doc.

  Cons

  Translations were frequently garbled. Didn't start up properly, heated up the computer, and kept the fan on. Very unusual behavior.

  Summary

  It appears to be dodgy software, and the owners/sellers do not seem to be interested in improving it. Try a different pdf to doc translator!

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• Awful software

  techno_girl4September 27, 2011

  Pros

  I could remove it

  Cons

  Horrible conversion and usability.

  Summary

  Find something else.

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• not that great

  frank00077May 6, 2011

  Pros

  none that I can think of

  Cons

  customer service sucks

  Summary

  dont buy it

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• doesn't produce usable translations, often

  CTS2February 24, 2011

  Pros

  Gets docs out of pdf into word format, for easier manipulation of text, etc.

  Cons

  Made redundant by pdf readers that give you great freedom on selecting and editing text. (Like Skim or, paid, PdfPen.) Too often produces highly unstable word documents in which whole sections vanish when you mouse over them.

  Summary

  I've pretty much relegated this to the "wasted my money" category. I submitted examples of unpdf's terrible, unusable translations of pdf files, and the help desk told me they were fine. a nice idea in theory. but I think the new breed of pdf readers/creators make this one irrelevant.

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• several problems . . .

  mccoytestJanuary 30, 2010

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  Summary

  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Several problems were encountered during my brief testing. I only wanted PDF to html. 1) the trial mode is insufficient for running some tests - it should allow you to run complete documents for a limited number of times - not just a few pages. I need to see much more. 2) I had a pdf which contained all my fonts. I wanted to test converting it to html (maybe I had some settings wrong) but I got nothing in three tries - and I couldn't find a solution, or if it might work (because of the limit to testing). 3) I had a pdf that was password protected. I put in the correct password (it was cool that deskUNPDF offered to accept the password.) BUT it did not work, even with several careful reattempts. A couple of simple single pages of a large document came out very nice, but I can't justify the high price and will not likely buy a working version for further testing. (maybe at half that price)

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• disappointed

  CTS2December 11, 2009

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  Summary

  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I've so far found this to be a disappointing product. I'm a journalist, and I bought it to make extracting information from pdf journal articles--social science, law, etc.--simpler. (It's frustrating, for example, to cut-and-paste from a pdf when it's in two columns.) Skim is a great program but I'd hoped working directly with Word files would be better. Unfortunately, whether because of design flaws or the inherent difficulty of the task, I find that glitches end up making the UNPDF'd versions just as annoying to deal with as an unSkimmed PDF. Things will be going well; then on one page, suddenly the converted-to-Word text in one column will simply disappear. Then I have to go back to the pdf file, and I end up saving little time. The translated files, in short, seem unstable in some way. I'm chalking up the $60 spent as a failed experiment; perhaps future updates will fix the current glitches.

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• Great for Undoing PDF's

  RobEZ1October 7, 2009

  Pros

  Converted a 35 page PDF to word and saved me a ton of time

  Cons

  Conversion took a bit, but my hardware is old.

  Summary

  Good overall product, time savings more than paid for product.

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• Downloaded product, installed ok, Did not work

  elnadadorJuly 18, 2009

  Pros

  Nice layout

  Cons

  I attempted to convert two files to Excel. Each ended in "Error". Both spreadsheets were blank.

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