My mind is open to trying this software, but somehow the registration process went off the deep end. Way TOO COMPLICATED for such a simple thing.

just downloaded very good but very misleading as you do not get OCR it is only available for txt only you have to pay if you want to use OCR for word and the rest.

Useless. Verification code keeps giving error.

"invalid verification code" comes from following their contorted registration process. Could not "sign up" to register the program.

uninstalled.

It seems my message was not sent, I try again... Is there any list of languages the program does OCR?

Installed GOTD version. When the program opens it is a blank window. I uninstalled that version and downloaded the Giveaway version from the AceThinker site. Installed it with same result. Running Window 10 Pro 64 bit.

The version states Trial . Did what Read me text stated. States payment received. For WHAT?

One of the more convoluted registration processes I've ever seen. Make sure that you watch the youtube video because the website is useless.

Activation code does not work.

I noticed on the publisher's website that academic pricing is available. Could someone please explain that? I'm an academic, both graduate student and university faculty, with personal academic use for this software.

Installed loaded up and started with blank gray window !!!

Windows 7 64bit Os

I just installed the software, which came up as a trial supporting only the first 5 pages.

My first conversion, PDF to DOCX, was of a challenging old image PDF of an old two-column book complete with library stamps on the pages.

The DOCX was amazingly good! It would have been impossible to import this PDF into Microsoft Word, and less challenging PDFs often convert so poorly as to be useless. This software is impressive.

BTW I use very expensive research software that can import DOCX (i.e. XML) but not PDF and this should be of immense value to me.

A perfect tool for translators ... Thank you.
Works well even with Slovak alphabet system.

Could it be any harder to register! I tried, but it was too complicated, so I uninstalled your software. Total waste of my time....

Code returns invalid. I filled out the form at link posted below and it comes back
"Submit Failed". What gives?

I have PDF documents by which I test all programs like this.
PDF-to-Word did not create a document that I could edit. It just created a bunch of images which it pasted onto a Word document. My PDF-to-Excel tester is a scanned document. AceThinker did nothing except generate a blank Excel sheet. When I clicked on the OCR button on the toolbar, it just took me to a web page where it offered to do the conversion online, instead of AceThinker doing it.
Additionally, to register this program, you have to create an account with them so that they can have a "relationship" with you. NO, I do not want a relationship with you.
Another PDF converter bites the dust.

Thanks GOTD & AceThinker -- nice timing for me.

Just got a sheet-fed document scanner, PDF seems the preferred way to save doc scans, and PDF Converter Pro's OCR completes the package.

first timer in offering some feedback ........... apologies, in advance, if my comments are not substantiated in the software:

1. installation of the software and registration have been without incidents. the developer likes to compile a database of users and I guess it is normal industry practice.

2a. if the files-to-be-converted are scanned pdf files, then editing of the contents of the converted files is not possible, as the converted files are :image files". addition of the text outside of the images is possible ......... hence the software functionality is not of much use for scanned documents

2b. conversion of the scanned pdf files into .txt files comes out with 2 major issues, namely loss of format and incorrect interpretation of the characters. this means quite a bit of correction is required to bring the content to match the content of the original document. decision to use this software, followed by restoration of the contents will be driven by the efforts involved versus creation of the document afresh.

2c. if a pdf document has been originally created using the features of the word processors, which allow saving the word documents as pdf files, conversion of such pdf files is without a problem.\

2d. if the pdf document has been downloaded from the net, the conversion seems to work correctly. however, i have not used a very small sample to assert that all conditions are covered.

summary: scanned pdf files are NOT OK, saved pdf files (using word processors) are OK. Downloaded files seem OK within the limited sample.

3. pdf to ppt again seems to work for all those files, created from within the software. conversion and editing of scanned pdf files does not seem to work.

4. pdf to excel creates 2 sheets for a file with headings and data, Table 1 (name of the sheet) has the heading, while Table 2 (second sheet) has all the other data. while the data is preserved, the formulae will be gone. you will have to reenter the formulae.

5. pdf to jpg and and png files conversion makes the converted files editable, not for the content, but for cropping etc., But i assume such editing is not possible even for normal jpg and png files, unless you have created them yourself or you use another software. I do not have much use for these functions.

Good and quick results converting 2 docs to editable .docx, one a 10 page tutorial with lots of images & different forms of formatted text, just like the original.

I haven't been able to activate the program using the 20 digit code on the AceThinker Giveaway Campaign page. Any hints on what to do?

Downloaded and Activated perfectly.
Ran a couple of pdf's through the program, converting them to word and where some
other programs have failed to convert them correctly, this program converted without errors.
Thumbs up from me to the developers and to GOTD.

It's a well designed interface that looks the part although working out all the steps in registration wasn't as easy as it could have been. I gave the program a ukulele song book to convert back to word so edits could be made. Superficially it did a brilliant job, but on closer inspection many of the pages that 'look' like text are in fact graphic pictures of whole verses that haven't been converted. Not sure why this is- certainly on pages where the font is something like calibri it converts pretty well but on 'bolder' fonts the software chooses to leave the text as a picture. Overall though the software managed around 80% of the book so would have saved a great deal of typing.As a software package it brings together a whole raft of PDF utilities that are available widely in a number of combinations such as merge, split, ocr, conversion from office to PDF , unlocking etc. If you currently work with PDFs regularly these won't be new additions to your arsenal. I took a JPEG contents page and converted it to PDF before trying to convert it to Word - none of the text was attempted . Strangely, using the same PDF and pushing it through OCR to text, all the words were recognised.

Alex, this is a real world example of why one may need to convert a .pdf to word:
We provide a service on our infrastructure for clients, and have an obligation to run DR tests. We use a replication product for DR purposes. This product produces reports in .pdf format. We need to redact portions of the report that include device names and IP addresses, admin account names, etc, for security purposes. Acrobat Pro can do this, but it is clunky, relies on manually marking sections of text, often automatically highlights entire sections, does not keep option changes (such as 'redact selected text only', instead 'redact whole word') and is s-l-o-w. Converting to Word and using search-and-replace to redact and then printing to .pdf is so much easier and faster.

But Acrobat has problems converting to Word; it produces blocks of text as images, it produces outlines of original graphics.

Not actually used the product yet, but if it converts to Word and produces the original document as text and gfx, then I'm happy.

Comments about the software itself rather than the rights and wrongs of converters would be much more useful to both other users and the developer I would imagine.