Offers a multitude of methods to convert and export data. For example, the PDF to Excel conversion technology allows you to manually designate the column and row structure of your data before conversion, and preview how the converted document will look. Also, there is PDF to WORD conversion, PDF to PUBLISHER, or even PDF to Image file.
Due to the rising popularity of the PDF format, creating and editing PDF files is becoming more of a necessity, far from that highly specialized task reserved for printing houses and professional designers. Able2Extract Professional makes PDF editing easy and straightforward, with tools and features present in other high-end PDF tools, such as OCR support, electronic signatures, and file conversion capabilities.
The “Professional” label in the program’s name denotes two things mainly – the fact that some of its features can only be found in similar professional tools and an attempt to justify its pricey tag. It is true that OCR support, electronic signatures, or the conversion to a wide range of formats is not easy to find in non-professional PDF editors, but it is also true that the program’s OCR engine not always yields the expected results and that its conversion to other formats produces the same mixed results as any other PDF conversion tool.
The program’s interface is clear and easy to work with – it won’t have you checking the manual every time you need to use a new feature, and most icons are quite self-explanatory. It is based on tabs, which means that you are allowed to have a large number of PDF files open and within easy reach at any given time. As some of its most notable competitors, it also offers a thumbnail view to help you locate specific objects or pages at a glance. Able2Extract Professional opens an initial menu with the most demanded tasks, and all of them will take you to the same main interface but with different sets of options and tools.
Without going into too many details about each of the features that the program offers, suffice it to say that you will find a good choice of editing, conversion, watermarking, signing, protection, form filling, and enhancing utilities. Do not expect to find the same wealth of features and capabilities present in reference tools, such as Adobe Acrobat DC. For the same reason, do not expect to pay its outrageous tag price either.
v8.0 [Nov 30, 2012]
1.Cross Platform
For the first time ever, Able2Extract Professional 8 is fully cross platform on Windows, Mac and Linux. All the benefits and features of Able2Extract are available to you as a user no matter which of the 3 major operating systems you are using. Additionally, the license key you receive when you license Able2Extract will work on any of the three operating system distributions at once.
2.Improved PDF Rendering
Able2Extract Professional 8 has a completely new PDF viewer developed from scratch by the Investintech.com development team. The result is a PDF viewer embedded in Able2Extract that is faster, has the ability to open more files and is able to show PDF in higher fidelity. This means not only a truer PDF document viewing experience but also an improved conversion output experience due to the higher quality PDF reading.
3.Custom Excel
The advanced custom excel conversion option that is proprietary to Able2Extract has gotten better with a whole new interface and an advanced document preview pane. This allows the user more power over controlling difficult conversions from PDF to Excel as well as speeding up the process since users can preview their PDF to Excel conversion prior to actually placing the data in Microsoft Excel.
4.Updated OCR
The updated and more powerful OCR engine included in Able2Extract Professional 8 has improved character recognition and now has the ability to convert some images from scanned PDF documents into Microsoft Office formats.
5.Improved Conversion
Able2Extract Professional 8 has made incremental improvements in its PDF conversion output as a result of the updated OCR technology and the improved PDF rendering. The result is PDF conversions to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint that are more accurate and stay truer to the actual PDF document once it is converted back into its native form.
6.Document Thumbnails
The PDF document viewing module of Able2Extract now has the ability for users to see thumbnails of each page of the PDF document. This provides a quick way to scroll through the document in order to pinpoint the exact place where they would like to make their PDF conversion.
