Today's giveaway is a pretty decent app if you need to convert a PDF file to DOCX format, but pretty much buggy to convert into other formats it supports.

Unlike other similar tools given away here over the past few months, it also supports OCR feature, thus enabling you to convert scanned PDFs with ease, but only in ENGLISH language: so it's pretty much useless for people whose first language is not English.

Dude, for 40 $ you must do more...much more!!

BETTER FREE ALTERNATIVES

PDF ==> WORD (DOC, RTF)
http://www.nemopdf.com/pdf-to-word.html

PDF ==> Text, Word, Image, Html
http://unipdf.com
http://www.ultimatepdfconverter.com

PDF ==> ePUB, Mobi (iPad, Kindle, Sony eReader, Kobo, Nexus etc...)
http://www.epubee.com/ebook-converter.html

PDF ==> PPT
http://www.pageflippdf.com/pageflip-free-pdf-to-powerpoint/index.html

FREE OCR APPS
http://www.ocronline.com (unlike this poor GAOTD supports JPG, TIFF, PNG, GIF, PDF and 153 languages)
http://www.paperfile.net
http://capture2text.sourceforge.net

And finally, to split & merge any PDF files like a GURU for FREE:

http://www.pdfdocmerge.com/pdf_splitter_merger

40 BUCKS?

ih,ih,ih,ih,ih....LOL!

Enjoy!!

Giovanni Mr KING FREEBIES!!!!!  –  11 years ago  –  Комментарий оказался полезным? да | нет (+198)

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Pros
*Converts PDF to DOC, DOCX, JPEG, TXT, EPUB, HTML, and SWF
*Supports OCR, batch processing, and drag + drop
*Can merge PDFs
*Does not require Microsoft Word to be installed to do PDF -> DOC/DOCX

Cons
*Buggy
*Would love ability to do PDF -> RTF, XLS, and PPT

Free Alternatives
UniPDF
Cometdocs

Final Verdict
Click here for final verdict and full review

Ashraf  –  11 years ago  –  Комментарий оказался полезным? да | нет (+81)

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First thing this program did upon start was an attempt to update something in my Internet connection parameters. Then, during initialization and registration with the "Giveawayoftheday" serial number, it tried to create a lot of new entries in the system register with weird names like htDSgwUj, vFDpOk etc. - dozens of them. Well... I killed the process. Uninstalled using the "thorough" regime of my uninstaller. Thumbs down.

Dean Reed  –  11 years ago  –  Комментарий оказался полезным? да | нет (+46)

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Immediately on opening I ran into difficulties; in the lower left corner where you can choose which folder to save the results in disappeared through the bottom of the form, modifying the display size did not cure this problem.
Even though I was stuck having to save to the source folder I gave it a try, the PDF I tried on was free of any diagrams but contained a variety of sizes, some bold some normal.
The results showed that a lot of the text ran off the edge of the page even though it took forever to do the conversion.
Undaunted, I decided to try an image to doc file, it was an image of a flowchart diagram containing a few boxes with text in it, it managed to extract a reasonable amount of the text but wasn't really good enough to be of much use.

It is a shame this program isn't quite up to scratch and needs quite a lot of work, but then it is taking on a difficult task.

Recently I have needed some decent OCR work done; a friend had given me their old Lexmark printer (couldn't afford the ink) and in the CD that came with it was AABBY Finereader. This is by far the best OCR program I have used, worth getting your hands on an old printer just for the software.

XP-Man  –  11 years ago  –  Комментарий оказался полезным? да | нет (+22)

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#3 + #5
OCR is English only (as Ashraf #1 told in his "Final Verdict").

Many thanks to good old Ashraf and his valuable comments and Final Verdicts and to Giovanni and all other helpful commentators and contributors. GOTD couldn't do without them!

Kind advice to all "questionaries": Please read available information first before asking and thus forcing other readers to spend their valuable time reading superfluous comments or even answering them.

And now start voting me down! (I have a broad back and won't mind. I always comment in order to be helpful and not for collecting points. My only obstacle in rare cases is one censor in between all the nice GOTD people. Many thanks to them!)

FrancisBorne  –  11 years ago  –  Комментарий оказался полезным? да | нет (+22)

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