Andrew, thanks for your review, please note that there're no any other hidden fees, or limitations during using the Bitwar PDF Converter for a whole year, and of course, unlimited conversions for sure. In addition, you will not be charged again next time because the license just ends up itself after the last day. Have a nice day.

Bitwarsoft, Thank you for your help and information which is very much appreciated. I have a feeling I will be making a great deal of use of your application so it's very likely I will buy an annual licence at the end of the free period.

Andrew, thank you!

Jeremie, you may apply the 30 days free trial. send me your account and I will help clear the 30 days trial and you can then enter the 1 year license to the Activate menu.

Bitwarsoft, what about the rest of us that has the same problem.. Jenny

jenny, send us the emails! and we will help you fix the problems.

jenny, you can contact us and we will help you fix this problem

Bitwarsoft, my account address is jtkfoch@gmail.com and account feedback were sent on two occasions with the same email address. I downloaded the software, twice separately, on two devices; a desktop and a laptop with the same email address. Not sure whether that will cause any problem to the licence validity period. Thank you.

Bitwarsoft, GREAT SERVICE !!!! Email sent

Rob Crombie, nope, we can't do that, as per the scenarios here on our ends, the customers don't prefer deleting the source files automatically. And we can't do command line either.

CJ Cotter, fast conversion and better effect. that's all, you can give it a try.

Velvet, Thanks for the feedback!

Velvet, A scanned PDF is an IMAGE. So you're trying to convert an IMAGE to a word document. No pdf converter can do that. You would need an OCR program to do that

If you "scan" something into PDF and want to convert that PDF into text, this process is called OCR.

I don't think an ordinary PDF converter can do this task well. You will have some find some software which are specific in OCR instead.

This program will works great only if the PDF already contain "characters" and not just "image"

Velvet,
Glad that I read comments before I download. First of all, this is not a lifetime license (I don't mind not getting updates for a free version of a shareware). I was looking for an alternative to the Wondershare "Convert from PDF" software (that does a decent job especially when I try converting to DOCX, XLSX, PPTX), but after reading comments it's a no to me at the eleventh hour.

mukhi, Bitwar PDF converter is able to "convert from PDF" to DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, thank you.

Kenneth Lam, Did you read the part that I also tried it on a 5 page .pdf document? That one was made, not scanned in originally. I also didn't get an image from the conversion, only a few characters. I have used many conversion programs before so I do know what is usual for a conversion program to do.

mukhi, GOTD had a very good .pdf to .doc converter some time ago. My computer that had it on died so I had to get a new computer, I just haven't gotten around to downloading it yet. I have been hoping that it would be offered again. It coverts scanned .pdf to .doc. Here is the link.....https://icecreamapps.com/PDF-Converter/

Velvet,
Thanks, will check it out. If you don’t mind an online tool, you may use the following:
https://www.ilovepdf.com/
Works pretty good!

Velvet, Not that good so far as I can see after testing the App you said.

Gary, I haven't tried it with large files, but it converts my scanned .pdf and has converted my .doc files to .pdf. I do have to admit that it isn't that great for keeping the format of my scanned .pdf, but since it has been recipe cards I have been scanning in I haven't worried about that aspect. Finding a program to convert scanned .pdf to editable .doc has been a tiring process.

mukhi, I will bookmark that site, thanks. I usually prefer working off-line. I guess it is my age and desire for privacy that keeps me from using on-line converters.

Velvet,
Well, I prefer an offline tool, too especially when I need to work on a relatively confidential document.

Bob, let me check the emails (If you have sent us such an email) so that I can help you fix this issue.

Bob, please send us an email including your order number so that we can help you fix this issue.

Meir Glantz, Click on the More menu (Beside the Service button) and paste the license key to Activate Menu!

Meir Glantz, Click on the three horizontal lines - top right. It drops down a menu and the first option is 'activate'

njwgd, thank for the information!

Lu Gloss, Thank you for your kindly review! Have a nice day

Lu Gloss,
How generous is collecing your Document and System data for a whole year, in the name of "forced customer experience" that you cannot opt out of?
I think that is plain mischief and l am certainly not going to download a program that does that, on my Laptop, only God knows what else it is 'collecting' from our system.
Certainly reminds me of that cliche 'Greek Gift'.

Dan, there's no forced customer experience. thank you.

Stephe, Thanks for the feedback, we will try to contact Malwarebytes for a futher research

I had the same problem. Malwarebytes will not allow me to register. I will NOT authorize bypassing. They need to get rid of the phishing poop.

lj, we don't, we have sent a reach out email to Malwarebytes to seed a way to fix this issue yet. Thank you.

njwgd, yes, there's no such option for the PDF converter, indeed, this is an overall license agreement, we will try to make it clearer. Thank you for the information.

njwgd, nice catch with the unsolicited spying, no wonder malwarebytes considers vip.bitwar.net phishing domain aka spying.

I guess the clue is in the name bit WAR! who wants software associating itself overtly with WAR. The name in itself rings of blackhat hacker naming style. Like wardriving traveling around searching for open wifi access points or easily hackable ones for illicit use... like Google streetview car did so they could build a database of access point names to give them a new way to locate users even if they did not have GPS enabled or even present on their devices.

Bitwarsoft, How can you say participation in your customer experience program is voluntary and at the same time, you remove the option from the customer to either participate or dont particpate in your collection of data about their hardware, Software and whatever they are converting in PDF?
Is it that you dont realise that some of the documents being converted can be very personal, confidential, FYEO or you are just being sneaky, tricking users with a false sense of security that it is optional, when in actual fact it is forced on your users? Please remove that "optional" and replace it is "mandatory collection of user data" so everyone can know what ou are really up to.
Thank you.
GOATD should never offer thsi sort of mischief to its members.

"Free" in fact are more expensive. They hire someone to develop this program. They give it out "for no money" but will get something back from you.

Dan, we're not going to collect any information from your computer, because there's no such program, this is the general license agreement for all products, we didn't mention it more clearly, that's all.

Kenneth Lam, You think too much. There's no such purpose, we can only get the feedback from the comments left here. That's all.

TK, Thanks for the suggestions!

TK,

I'm reasonably normal and I wouldn't feel deceived. That's because I know software development companies can't stay in business if they don't make money. A lot of sites have a download link that doesn't shout "Trial!" It's not bait and switch, it's business. Reasonable people check a site, where all the pricing and feature info is available, before downloading.

Lu Gloss, never heard of Freeware, Free Open Source software as well as softwarehouses that distribute BOTH paid for and freeware software?

Some sites have similar deceptions it is a bait and switch con but the upstanding and trustworthy sites make it abundantly clear you are downloading a trial with some restrictions, either watermarks, feature limitations on the trial e.g. recovery software trials may only recover max of 1GB of data or limit max recovered file size to 2MBytes... and often show a comparison matrix of what you get in the trial or in the lite free edition and what extra you get in the various paid licenses. Many developers do private paid bespoke development and for fun they do public freeware. Your view of software dev world is far narrower than normal.

One should not HAVE to trawl through all the products in a websites store to see if a program on the site offered for download with no stated restrictions, in fact states all the full features of the paid product, for free is really free.

Belga, yes it is good, its a keep for me.

bernard, Thank you!

bernard, if you want to keep it beyond the 1 year trial giveaway period you will have to pay for it!

Bitwarsoft, you won't auto renew as you have no payment info and your 1 year license is not auto-renew acording to your website. I never said YOU would take money but in order for bernard to KEEP IT perminantly and have it operational perminantly he will have to buy a lifetime license or start an auto-renew subscription ergo he will have to pay to keep it beyond the 1 year trial giveaway license. Please next time read only what is said and don't make up things I never said! I stand by precisely what I said.

Belga, there's no need to do that, although they are the same applications, but we've upgraded the features and now Bitwar PDF Converter is powerful than Deli PDF Converter, I strongly recommend you to download the latest version of the Bitwar PDF Converter.

@ Bitwarsoft,
I did not "do that", your program did it...
After installation, when i clicked on the link of Deli PDF Converter in the start menu, it's your program that opened up instead of Deli !?.
Thank you again.

Belga, OK, you can try to uninstall the program and reinstall the Bitwar PDF Converter.

JohnH, I do not think the free version will do this, you need to get the professional version that is $40 US dollars

JohnH,
Thank you!

JohnH,
I have the premium version of PDF Shaper and it can't convert in Doc(x), well in rtf. In any case, the result is not comparable to that of the software persent.

Belga,
...not comparable to this software (sorry, bad translation)!

bernard, you don't think it will do what "this"? JohnH said it does most of what this program does and more not ALL and more... You need to be alot more specific about what you are criticising in the comment!

TK,
The free version does ONLY the following according to their site:
# Convert PDF to Image, Image to PDF
# Extract text, images and pages
# Delete images, pages and bookmarks
# Merge or split files, number, rotate and crop pages

mukhi, thanks for the information!

mukhi, so the original poster was right... most (not ALL) that this giveaway does as well as more as it includes Extracting text, is that OCR? and deleting images pages and bookmarks... Thanks for clarifying it:)

TK,
Extracting text may be of two types. If the PDF is directly made from a typed document (say, MS Word DOCX or something) using a PDF printer driver (AKA export), to extract the text you don't need an OCR algorithm. However, if it's a scanned document in the PDF format (no matter whether it's a typed or a handwritten document), to extract the text you must have an OCR function. The former kind is easy while the latter is not. YMMV depending on the capability of the optical character recognition AKA OCR software. I hope this helps.

mukhi, yes I understand that's why I added the ? because it could be simple extraction of text PDF objects or could be OCR or text rendered to raster PDF object OR text rendered to vector shapes PDF object as a method of simple copy and paste text extraction protection. So there is three ways to embed text in PDF documents not just the two. Of course one can always download and install and activate Adobe Acrobat 8 Pro from the CS2 release adobe did and add a PDF text layer to raster/vector shape rendered text to make a PDF searchable .... except one cannot edit the OCR text layer to check and correct any OCR errors so it's a little hit and miss!

TK,
Yup. I just wish I could get a PDF or JPEG to DOCX converter so that my handwriting (decent and cursive, not excellent) could be converted to typed texts with a success rate of 90-95%. That would be worth buying.

Bobby, this is a 1-year license giveaway, but not an annual subscription giveaway. Thank you!

Bitwarsoft, psst you did not answer what happens after the year! Does it cease to function, revert to an expired trial and cease to function or does it add watermarks that is why your reply comment was marked as not useful it answered nothing and stated the obvious about the 1 year license giveaway. And not what happens after that 1 year license expires, does one have to pay to continue to use it in any context or does it reduce functionality but remain usable after a fashion.

TK, We were thinking this question is only asked for the payment issue, that's why I answered with that information.

Here is my answer right now:

1. The 1 year license ends itself after the last day and the unlimited conversion stops either.
2. The user can only convert 5 pages in total for free if the 1 year license ends.
3. There's no ignorant buying message keeps asking you to purchase if the license reaches to the end, no, the license just ends itself.
4. Lock/Unlock feature will still be free after the expiry of the license.

Thank you.

Bobby, your question has been answered by bitwar in your thread now if you'd like to pop back for the definitive answer :-)
TK

https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/bitwar-pdf-converter/#comment-657832

Bitwarsoft, Thank you :)

Bobby, It can't, however, you can try with the Bitwar Text Scanner, https://www.bitwarsoft.com/ocr-text-scanner, it's an OCR tool and hope it works for you.

Bitwarsoft, here's another suggestion incorporate OCR in the PDF to any text format conversion e.g. PDF to DOCX or PDF to RTF or PDF to XLSX etc. OCR is a fundimental feature of scanned to PDF raster document conversion to editable writing or spreadsheets. And next giveaway you do offer the lifetime edition with no re-install or free updates and strictly personal usage and you'll get a much better reception than a 1 year trial giveaway. with far more of us willing to put in the time to install and try out your software and evaluate it for you and give advice and if it proves worthy we may then recommend it to any customer or family and friends that have a need for such a product. There would still be a chance the giveaway participant can be tempted to buy too if they have to re-install windows or migrate to a new or different machine.

TK, thanks for the suggestions, we know that and we are also working on it. Thank you!

Sammy Schipper, thank you for your advice, but people like me prefer stand-alone programs that can be converted online without uploading files. Nonetheless, privacy is still a bit of a problem for most people. Have a nice day!

Fixed: can be converted without uploading files online.

Gary, I like programs that are honest with their licensing and advertising. A trail license that requires purchase for all features isn't worth it.