Able2Extract Professional
Able2Extract Professional turns PDFs into editable Excel sheets and Word documents. This software also includes OCR technology to read scanned images in PDFs.
This software will also convert PDFs into Open Office Calc, the open-source Excel equivalent, or Open Office Writer, the open-source Word equivalent.
A free seven-day trial of this software is available. However, it will only convert three pages at a time without purchasing the full license
Investintech also provides a product called Able2Extract PDF Converter that is $30 cheaper than this Professional version, but does not include the OCR technology.
Product:
//Company:
//Version Tested:
//Release Date:
9.30.2010
//Cost:
$129.95
//Open Sourced:
No
//Demo Available:
Yes
//Obsolete:
No
Our Reviews
Verdict:
For the money, best tool we've tested for converting spreadsheets; OCR not bad
Able2Extract a top pick for capturing tabular PDF data; OCR OK
Thanks to its ability to define custom tables, Able2Extract is one of the best options we've found for converting PDFs to spreadsheets - especially for the price. It can even handle tricky documents that stump other programs and comes complete with decent OCR.
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Verdict:
Turns PDF into exact replica in Excel
Lined table an easy conversion for Able2Extract
Conversion of this simple table of Bernie Madoff's customers is quick, easy and accurate with Able2Extract. Column alignment is perfect and the text conversion is perfect as well.
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Effectively and accurately converts memos to text
Able2Extract converts scanned memos with few errors
Able2Extract takes these scanned in memos and quickly and reliably makes them searchable.
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Transcripts converted with only minor errors
Able2Extract easily reads typed transcripts
Able2Extract was nearly perfect in converting these scanned, typed transcripts of detainee interviews into searchable text.
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Clean spreadsheet conversion; some junk data needs culling
Able2Extract converts database report effectively
Able2Extract quickly and accurately converts this PDF of housing violations from a database report to a spreadsheet, conserving rows and columns and perfectly transferring the text from the original document. It preserves some information we don't need too, meaning there was some cleanup required.
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Slow and imperfect, but mostly effective
Form-based PDF provides a challenge for Able2Extract
Able2Extract took a very long time to process this large PDF of nearly 1,700 pages of scanned-in forms, some with handwritten responses. After nearly four hours, it did eventually produce a legible, search-ready document, but missed a few terms.
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User-defined rows, columns help results
Custom options help Able2Extract parse unlined table
Although the result isn't perfect, Able2Extract's customization options help it turn this tricky unlined table of Clinton's political appointments into a sortable spreadsheet.
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Converts unrecognized font to mishmash of unusable symbols
Able2Extract fails with embedded fonts
While the formatting of this table of Gov. Jan Brewer's border fence contributors is perfect after running it through Able2Extract, the information contained within is not. The words are replaced with random characters for the whole spreadsheet.
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Can't handle badly scanned report
Able2Extract fails to make partial text PDF searchable at all
Able2Extract completely fails with this difficult document, a PDF already partially processed with OCR.
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Using Able2Extract to convert a PDF into Excel
This tutorial is designed to assist you in using Able2Extract PDF Converter, specifically, to turn a PDF table into a usable Excel spreadsheet.
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