Safia, you'll find it in the READ ME file.

Cassie, Thank you

Gerard Brill, Its more to do with the PDF format. Its an end format that is designed for printing. The analogy is rock cakes. You've made a batch of rock cakes and you're looking for a way to get back to the raw ingredients to make meatloaf instead. Once everything has been mixed together, its very difficult to go back a step.
Something like converting Word to Excel is easy, as the file format is designed for conversion. A word document can be converted to text. However, that text document can't easily be converted to Excel. Each line goes into its own line. A text document doesn't have the concept of columns. You have CSV and TSV text files, but they're specific document types within a file type... you can't put different document types in a PDF - no mattter how you enter text to a PDF, you're not going to get an easy conversion to Excel, Word or Powerpoint.

Chris,
I appreciate your explanation. However don't you think it's time that a better text compression software be devised than having to jerk around with this obsolete pdf system. Your analogy is rock cakes, mine would be how fuel injection has replaced carburetors. Once upon a time cars used to have their hoods up now superceding technology lets cars run smoothly so we can have more time to worry about Huawei. G Brill

Gerard Brill, "with this obsolete pdf system"
PDFs aren't obsolete, and aren't going away any time soon. For distributing documents (their prime use) they serve a wonderful purpose. Thats what they're designed for.

Jeff White, in Readme file.

Mical Stringer, Excellent, thats great news. What about other people, or don't they count?
I don't have need for a guitar, so should all guitars be thrown away?

Chris, Why do you need something like PDF with any Word Processor? First go from a document, with or without photos or graphics to PDF and then make a doc again. That is absurdi

Dingo, This is v3.9, so its completely different. Or completely the same. Usually if a version number is different, it means the version you have is out of date. Usual practice is to install the newer version, as it has newer features and sings better. Or not.

M. Aronson, A software review saying 'no time to test' is about as useful as my car review of the latest Ferrari. I've no time to purchase it (nor the money) but I downloaded the brochure just fine and when I rang up, they answered the phone within 20 rings! Thanks very much Ferarri!

Would you buy a Ferrari based on that review?!

Louis, I have tried a scanned PDF and it could be converted by the PDF To Word function. But the output in Word file likes the plain text. I think it has the OCR.

Suze, Thank you - I did miss that GAOTD, but did subsequently install the free version, to extract & reorder PDF pages, which worked really well - didn't realise the free version can do OCR as well - will give it a go

krypteller, Thanks - I will pass in that case, don't see much use in it then - you may as well copy and paste the text in a PDF directly onto Word or Excel doc.

Suze, thank you so much for this You Rock!

McLean, Interesting - did it insert the converted content as text in the Word doc, or as an image ? )In other words, can you select, copy & paste, or delete / change the converted content ?

krypteller, Why don't you say anything about the program? Is it useful? Yes or no?

Note: somehow my original comment on May 22 got deleted . . . here it is again:

Louis, this does OCR very well (and it's free): https://bytescout.com/products/pdfmultitool/index.html. The business version was given away here a couple of months ago.

Suze, thank you, much appreciated !

JAN NIEUWOUDT, from the homepage it seems this tool doesn't require any Office application installed.

JAN NIEUWOUDT,

Check whether Open Office can handle Word and Excel formats. It most probably does. It certainly is the case for Libre Office, which is close.

Clairvaux, Thanks, will do so.

McLean,

You might not need Office to convert a pdf to a Word file, but I'd be very surprised if PDF Zilla included viewers to open all the file format it can create.

And even that would not suffice. The whole point of using a Word or Excel file is to then use it, edit it, etc. So you either need Microsoft Office, or an equivalent.

McLean, Thanks.

JAN NIEUWOUDT,
I had Open Office on one of my computers a couple of years ago, until I was able to get MS Office for it. I can say that any document that MS Office apps can open, can also be opened using Open Office apps. Libre Office can do this also.
I think what PDFzilla does is convert PDF files to the formats used by the various Office Suites that are available. All of those Suites I have used read the same formats.
Hope this helps.