PDF Converter Pro produced poor results with a Verizon Wireless bill when I left OCR on, reproducing the Verizon company logo as “vefl70nw?re/ess.” When I turned OCR off, the logo reproduced correctly, but this time, none of the text was editable. To its credit, the application didn’t crash or balk, as some other PDF utilities have with this particular test document and it handled the page sizes correctly. Despite the lack of OCR, I could edit the text in this document. When I turned OCR off, the application sprinted through the same document in just 50 seconds, and the results were much better, with variable-width text and good-looking, properly reproduced images. The resulting document contained mostly fixed-width (specifically, Courier) text, and many of the graphics were severely overcropped. I used the application on a 58-page monochrome computer manual and with OCR turned on, the application required 4 minutes, 15 seconds to convert the manual into a Microsoft Word document that’s about twice the amount of time other applications required. ![]() The Pro version includes an OCR function for creating editable text from scanned documents, though you can’t scan from within the application instead, you must scan the document, save it as a PDF file (because the application recognizes only PDF files), and then import the scanned PDF into PDF Converter Pro. If PDF Converter Pro handled conversion better than any of its rivals, it might be worth the cost but in my tests, its output was fairly undistinguished overall.
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