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PDF Converter Professional 7.0 From Nuance Communications, Inc. List Price: $99.99 Price: $59.99 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25. Details Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Ships from and sold by Amazon.com 14 new or used available from $59.99 Average customer review:

Product Description

Create Convert and Collaborate with Better PDF for Business PDF Converter Professional 7 is the smarter PDF solution for business users. It provides everything you need to convert edit share and create PDF files.  It features 100% industry-standard PDF and the most accurate document conversion to editable formats even from within Microsoft Office and Microsoft Windows . With more productive scanning advanced PDF search and expanded multimedia support to include Microsoft Silverlight users can create convert edit assemble and securely share PDF files for enhanced productivity and collaboration. PRODUCE PROFESSIONAL-LOOKING DOCUMENTS Deliver documents that look as good in print as they do on the screen no matter where you send them. Instantly create 100% industry-standard PDF files that include PDF and PDF/A versions with security options that are fully compatible with all PDF viewers. You can even automatically transfer hyperlinks and bookmarks from table of contents worksheet names and outlines when creating PDFs from Microsoft Word Excel and PowerPoint. Combine any type of file and/or folder into striking PDF Portfolios that can be viewed with any popular PDF reader. Add attractive interactive cover pages that guide the audience. Even include photos graphics movies audio or 3D drawings to communicate your message with attention-grabbing style! SAVE TIME AND MONEY WITH THE WORLD S MOST ACCURATE PDF CONVERSION Don t waste time re-creating PDF documents with complex layouts and graphics. Convert PDF files into fully-formatted editable XPS Corel WordPerfect and Microsoft Word Excel or PowerPoint documents complete with columns tables and graphics intact all with a single click. Even combine all pages of a PDF document into a single Excel worksheet. Superior conversion accuracy* delivers consistently exceptional results.  GET MORE DONE FASTER USING MICROSOFT OFFICE 2010 AND WINDOWS 7 Create PDFs with a single click while browsing files with

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #93 in Software
• Brand: Nuance Communications, Inc.
• Model: M109A-G00-7.0
• Released on: 2010-08-17
• Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 2000, Windows XP
• Format: DVD-ROM
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.62" h x 5.00" w x 7.63" l, .20 pounds

Features

• PDF Converter Professional 7 lets you instantly create 100% industry-standard PDF files, including all PDF and PDF/A versions, with security options that are fully compatible with all PDF viewers.
• Combine any type of file and/or folder into striking PDF Portfolios with attractive cover pages that guide your audience; deliver documents that look as good in print as they do on screen.
• Get all the features and benefits of PDF creation inside Microsoft Office, Microsoft Outlook, and Microsoft Windows, without the need to open additional applications.
• The most accurate conversion to searchable PDF lets you search everything in a document--even the contents of bookmarks and comments--so you're sure to find what you're looking for.
• Add passwords with secure encryption and permission controls to PDF files to control document viewing, printing, and modifications.

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Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Product Description

PDF Converter Professional 7 is the smarter PDF solution for business users. It provides everything you need to convert, edit, share and create PDF files. It features 100% industry-standard PDF--and the most accurate document conversion to editable formats even from within Microsoft Office and Microsoft Windows. With more productive scanning, advanced PDF search and expanded multimedia support to include Microsoft Silverlight users can create, convert, edit, assemble and securely share PDF files for enhanced productivity and collaboration.

Convert PDF and XPS documents into editable Corel WordPerfect or Microsoft Office formats, including Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, with a single click.

Use the FormTyper tool to convert static forms into fillable PDF forms that you can complete, save and email.

With the most accurate conversion to searchable PDF available, you can perform smarter searches on everything in a PDF document.

Create, Convert and Collaborate With Better PDF for Business

Produce Professional-Looking Documents

Deliver documents that look as good in print as they do on the screen--no matter where you send them. Instantly create 100% industry-standard PDF files that include PDF and PDF/A versions with security options that are fully compatible with all PDF viewers. You can even automatically transfer hyperlinks and bookmarks from table of contents, worksheet names and outlines when creating PDFs from Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Combine any type of file and/or folder into striking PDF Portfolios that can be viewed with any popular PDF reader. Add attractive, interactive cover pages that guide the audience. Even include photos, graphics, movies, audio or 3D drawings to communicate your message with attention-grabbing style!

Save Time and Money With the World's Most Accurate PDF Conversion

Don't waste time re-creating PDF documents with complex layouts and graphics. Convert PDF files into fully-formatted, editable XPS, Corel WordPerfect and Microsoft Word, Excel or PowerPoint documents--complete with columns, tables and graphics intact--all with a single click. Even combine all pages of a PDF document into a single Excel worksheet. Superior conversion accuracy delivers consistently exceptional results (actual conversion results may vary depending on the source file).

Get More Done Faster Using Microsoft Office 2010 and Windows 7

Create PDFs with a single click while browsing files with Windows. Or convert to PDF from within Microsoft Office documents. Support for Windows 7 Jump Lists provides quick access to recent files and common PDF creation and conversion tasks. And integrated Microsoft Outlook PDF tools let you archive entire folders of email and related attachments at once.

Collaborate Like Never Before

Exchange ideas and provide directions by adding notes, stamps, callouts, graphics and more to PDF documents. View, organize, prioritize and update all your comments using the convenient Comment Panel. Edit document directly, change fonts, colors and more to fix errors in text or graphics so your communications are perfect.

Assemble Documents With Ease

Combine files and remove or replace pages with drag-and-drop ease. View and select pages from a source document--Word, Excel, PowerPoint, WordPerfect, XPS, JPG, BMP or TIF--to insert into a target document.

Perform Smarter Searches

With the most accurate conversion to searchable PDF available, you can search everything in a PDF document. Use the intelligent "looks like" search capability to quickly find content, like phone numbers, email addresses and Social Security numbers, via an alphanumeric pattern rather than text. Automatically highlight, crossout, or underline search results for faster, easier editing.

Protect Your Documents

Control viewing, printing and modifications by adding passwords with secure encryption and permission controls to PDF documents. Or flatten everything in a document, including signatures, stamps, mark-ups, annotations, and filled form fields to ensure enhanced security.

Be More Efficient With Batch Conversion

Do you have a lot of files that you need to turn into PDF files? Need to convert a bunch of PDF files into editable documents? PDF Converter Professional has a pair of assistants to help address these challenges, making it easier than ever to batch create and convert files for maximum time savings.

Better PDF for Business

Create PDF Files From Any PC Application

Instantly create 100% industry-standard PDF files that are fully compatible with other PDF viewers.

Accurately Convert PDF Files

Convert PDF files into fully-formatted XPS, Corel WordPerfect and Microsoft Word, Excel or PowerPoint documents--complete with text, columns, tables and graphics intact.

Edit Directly Within PDF Files

Correct typos, edit and annotate both text and graphics directly within PDF files.

Fill and Save PDF Forms

Use the FormTyper tool to convert static forms into fillable PDF forms that you can complete, save and email.

Scan Directly to PDF

Set up your scanner once with your preferred settings and you're ready for one-click scanning to PDF. Scan and highlight, cross-out or underline— all in a single step.

Create PDF Portfolios

Place multiple files--or even folders--within a single PDF file. Portfolios allow you to organize, share and secure document groups more easily and effectively than ever before.

Manage Multi-Layer Graphics

Better manage graphics with the ability to view, select, merge and flatten layers created by programs like AutoCAD and Microsoft Visio.

Bring Multimedia to PDF

Embed Flash and Silverlight into PDF files to create attention-grabbing multimedia documents--quickly and easily--with remarkable results.

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Customer Reviews

PDF Converter Pro 7.0 works fine on Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit I decided to pick this up since I could not install Adobe Reader on my Win7 system. I have an Apple Mac mini running Windows 7 under Boot Camp. After buying and using the Nuance software, I decided to try to install the Adobe Reader anyway, because I was still within Window's free phone support period, just in case I had a similar problem with another piece of software in the future. Windows support did try to help me with the install problem, and later scheduled a joint phone call with Adobe, but Adobe refused to support their free reader and told Microsoft that I should buy one of their products if I want support, so the joint phone call never happened. This Nuance product (you can add/delete/edit fields) is similar to the Adobe Acrobat 7 that I used to use, but which I did not try to install on my new Windows computer because it predates and is not compatible with Windows 7. I used the Nuance product to convert a .pdf to a .doc file, and I was amazed that the bullets were real bullets and the .doc looked exactly like the .pdf. I had tried that a few years ago with PaperPort, TextBridge, OmniPage or some software that did a terrible job, and it could not even keep the fonts consistent, with random italics and splitting up paragraphs. It did this great job with a .pdf created from a Word document, most likely, not a scanned .pdf (those results would not be as good). I look forward to using the new Nuance product to make a fillable PDF from non-fillable PDF files. I got a free copy of PaperPort 12 from Nuance's website with ordering PDF Converter 7 Professional, with a link to the manufacturer's website from Amazon. But I don't know if I'm going to install PaperPort, because I have never seen a product matrix to tell me that it does anything that PDF Converter 7 Pro cannot do.

Improved Over PDF Converter 5 Although PDF Converter 5 had worked fine, I decided to upgrade to PDF Converter Professional 7 to see what's new. My rating may have fallen to a single star if I hadn't been able to recover from a bad initial install. I have read the horror stories in reviews on Amazon about Nuance products, and for a time during the installation of version 7, I thought that my time for misfortune had come. After something over an hour of waiting for install to complete, I attempted to find a graceful way out, but there wasn't one. After another hour of no progress for the install, I cut off computer, then powered back on, expecting to have a corrupt system. Everything was fine, however. I tried again to install, and this time the installation ran quickly and flawlessly, unlike the first time. PDF Converter Professional 7 is much faster than version 5, and there are many additional features, which may be good for some users. I'll leave it up to others to provide feature reviews, since my needs aren't very demanding. Version 7 does everything that version 5 did for me, but is much faster, with clean-looking (but with more options) menu structure.

Be careful about "activation" issues PDF Converter Professional 7.0 is one of several otherwise excellent software packages from Nuance that are let down by the company's draconian approach to software theft. Like Microsoft and Adobe, Nuance uses an activation process. This is not unreasonable, but, unlike these two, Nuance has a very flaky implementation, prompting me to knock a star off the rating. The software itself is fine - indeed, it is streets ahead of Acrobat, especially on cost - but after using it for some months it suddenly decided that I had pirated the thing and had installed it on another computer. Nope. I had just added some external drives. The software then interpreted this as a different computer. Even Windows doesn't do that. Adobe fixed similar issues some years ago. This is by design, according to Nuance's support staff, which told me that "changing parts of the computer will trigger to change the machine finger print and changing the machine finger print will require activation. Using an external hard drive is included on the parts of the computer which change the machine finger print. We apologized but that how our activation works." This is not how other "activated" software works. You have to be careful with this activation process. Do it too often - easily done if you turn external drives on and off - and you are deemed to be a software thief and you are locked out of the software that you have paid for. If you are choosing between different PDF options, you might want to see if the alternative has a more sane approach to activation. This warning applies to other Nuance packages because they suffer from the same disease. I have had it on OmniPage Professional 17 and Dragon NaturallySpeaking Premium 11, others have been hit on PaperPort Professional V12.0. It would make me think twice about buying future versions.