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Program at first looks fine at first and runs well, turns out to be bad. Real bad.

None of the conversions really work. When converting a PDF document to a Word document, the file created looks decent, but 99% of the word/letter spacing is removed, why? Document is set to Russian encoding, causing Word to complain about missing content. Other formats are just as bad, causing programs to complain about the format not being correct and asking if I really want to open it. Obviously the author didn't do something right nor do proper testing.

Exiting the program throws an error message, asking if you want to quit. Seriously, it is an error to want to exit it?

This is _at most_, alpha level software, and is absolutely not worth even 1 cent, let alone $29.95. It simply does not do what the author says it can do.

Hello,

I have just installed the app. It works OK. It's a keeper. It seems to have a good potential to grow.

well win 10 64 bit here the installer does not work with error 1305
used every compatibility setting on both this and installer from website

sorry I give up wasted already too much of my time

Hello

I am not able to register? I have the code but there is no space for the email to add it, please help me.

pedro from Illinois.

I tested this program on XP sp3 and it installed and activated smoothly. I then tried it on a Wikipedia article exported to a pdf with pictures and text in two columns. Firstly I tried the PDF to Image option, set to extract all the images from the file. I couldn't find any output at all. I then tried the PDF to Word option, and a Word document duly emerged, the file size being about a third that of the original. The pictures were placed correctly, but sad to say the text was pretty messy. It was rendered in text boxes a few lines deep which cut across the columns and some overlapping of text resulted. Most of the spaces between words had disappeared, leaving long strings of letters. A conversion to plain text produced similar results, with combined columns and no spaces between words.
Copying and pasting the pdf's contents into a new Word document was much better, at least in this case!

Software installs, but crashes when trying to REGISTER it despite using the correct registration eMail & License code as found in the Readme file. The crash issues the following error "The type initializer for 'ᜂ' threw an exception."

This occurred on my Windows 7 64-bit machine. So, I then tried installing it on my Windows XP 32-bit machine, but the result was the same. Therefore, I uninstalled today's giveaway from both of my machines.

Ummm, dumb question perhaps, but HOW do I register/activate this?? I expected a window at the end of installation asking me to do so, but did not get one. If I run the executable, it comes up ok & allows me to select a PDF file, but if I select Convert it merely gives me a window telling me the benefits of "registering", but not telling me how to go about doing so, nor any information on how to "activate". It does not do anything beyond that. Does it matter that I do not have Word installed? I only use Open Office, but figured if it made a .docx file for me I could use OpenOffice to use it??

The application is just a half screen window! What is that about? I do not see any reason to make it so tiny. :(

I had difficulty to install the software. I had to cancell the process and do it again (on both of my computers!). Than finaly it installed but it took so much time. So different from other GOTD software and my experience. The programm is just showing a little screen (a mini screen) I can not make a full screen of it. Why is that?! :) I do not like that and I do not see that purpose.

Three strikes and yer out! Installed without problem but three attempts to convert PDF docs produced garbled text with many overwrites that made the conversions unusable.

I, for one, am very pleasantly surprised by this product. I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer at jumping in and learning a new application. This one is a breeze.

It installed in moments since I had seen the advice on using the GAOTD email. My first impression upon opening the program was, "Oh, pretty! so simple!" I grabbed a PDF of a court form with lots of boxes and a few other formatting challenges, tapped the PDF to Word button and ran the conversion. It was over in a flash. I'd seen the comment about finding the output, but then glanced at the buttons for "same as resources/desktop" and found it immediately. The interface is so clean that there's no way to get confused. The output, while not absolutely perfect, was quite acceptable. This will save me a lot of time in the future. Bravo, and thank you!

Installed easily on a Win10 64-bit machine. I ran 6 English PDFs of different types (including contracts, eBooks, and tables in portrait and landscape) through it and converted them to Word. They all came out nicely -- formatting was preserved and the text was readable and editable. It's a keeper.

To register this product you have to use the "giveaway@giveawayoftheday.com" email rather than your own email.

Setup flawless.

Tried converting a smaller PDF newsletter. Roughly 70% left blank. The 30% which did convert (to .doc) were tables which looked perfect. However, they are images and cannot, therefore, be edited in Word or other wp's.

This will work for many but w/o OCR, scanning to an editable doc seems impossible.

Does it work with Hebrew files?

The converter downloaded and installed perfectly. I tried converting a short PDF to Word. A .docx file was produced. The converted document looked as it should when using Word Viewer. However, the document was unreadable when using LibreOffice 5.3. Could the publisher make the converted documents compatable with LibreOffice?

Very simple install and registration. I tried converting pdf to html and image and it worked great.

OK. so I installed and registered just fine. Tried out a couple of PDF conversions to Word. First one admittedly was a long document (not best choice for a test I guess) and it did NOT convert - ran out of memory. So I tried a smaller document and it finished quickly.

However, when I opened up the conversion Word document, it was not really a Word document at all - it was a set of images of the PDF in word file format. So if I can't actually EDIT any of the text as a word document, what good is being able to "convert" it? I thought I could convert to a functional word doc, not to page images in a word setting. If that's all it can do it's pretty useless to me.

The Registration License Number provided in the installation instructions does not work.

Hello,
I cant install this software, I get the next messages on the screen:
First: Error 2503. Called RunScript when not marked in progress.
Button: OK
Second:Error 2502. Called InstallFinalize when no install in progress.
Button: OK
Finalizing, but the software is not ready to running. The icon does not appear.
Regards, László

I tested it with 100-page document in Slovak language with simple layout, created by a pdf-printer from doc-file.
Conversion to doc took about 3 minutes and the result was very good - no problems (except some moved table lines in more complex structures) were found. No problem with text itself, few small issues in layout (much less then expected).
Conversion to epub: the same speed, poor quality. Headers and footers merged into text, some spaces disappeared, layout changed significantly (no surprise with that). But text was still conveniently readable.
Resume: something good, something acceptable, nothing really non-functional in this short test. For me rarely needed functionality, till now I used online converters with acceptable results, but limited file size and poor speed.
For me this is a keeper (at least for now). I believe, worth to try.
Thanks, authors and GOTD

A note to time-limited "service" giveaways: to learn a software provided as a few-month free license and then throw it away ar pay relatively substatntial money for the normal license is no big deal for me. I look for giveaways for th efunctions which I need really rarely, it is not worth to pay for that few uses during a long time. Time-limited offers save a few bucks for the regular users, but t is not for me...

Hello,
I got your programme by a GAD give away for a day free version with a register key I copy pasted from txt. file, but the key does not works, I have the message that my key is wrong,

Can you help me?
Thank you very much Monica, From Switzerland

The key I got from Giveaway of the Day does not work. Registration popup says invalid licensed email or registration code

I entered the registration code that was included with the download and it says that I have entered an invalid email address or code. BOTH were entered correctly. I need a good code please.

The first two comments I've read are negative so for the sake of justice I just HAD to write this:

Testing pdf to txt mode in a non-english language gave me a NEARLY PERFECT (CRLFs must be done by the user, that's a con; have to thoroughly read the doc for a 100%, but so far...) conversion for a 500+ page source in less than a minute. So the reasonable advice here is: give it a run yourself, even for the non-obtrusive/corrosive, nag-free reg process.

Congrats for the GaD team once again, hurray for the developer for such a winner!

A person with the best improvement idea will get a full-functioning lifetime license!
So presumably everyone else gets a limited licence (limitation period not stated) that is not fully functional?

I've tried to convert 2 PDF books to ePub. The program is very slow, and the resulting ebooks are totally unusable. It is even impossible to read the text. All spaces have disappeared, upper cases P characters have been introduced everywhere, the illustrations are not at the right places, and the footnotes and page numbers are mixed within the main text.

Once again, it appears that the PDF format is impossible to convert to a better format. It's not necessarily the fault of this converter. It's due to the very bad decisions taken by Adobe when they have developed the PDF format. Unfortunately, we have to live with them, and this giveaway proves one more time that it is impossible to do good conversions of PDF to other text-based ebook formats.

Don't even try this GOTD. Il may work to convert PDF to images or image based ebooks, but it doesn't work at all for text based PDF files.

Don't waste your time with this software
tested with a TEXT PDF used converter to DOC file
opened file with Open Office each page is a picture NOT TEXT!!!