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PDF Converter OCR for Windows: All-in-1 PDF Converter with OCR function
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Introduction:

First, we need to know some basic knowledge about Portable Document Format (PDF). This will help you to better understand the importance of this program. PDF is an open standard for document exchange. It can preserve the original appearance in different computer operation system, monitor, or printer. Most of the users use PDF document in daily life, however it comes with some drawbacks such as fixed formatting and difficult to edit. This renders the content within PDF frozen especially if scanned document, even the Adobe Acrobat can't edit the file perfectly. This makes conversion of PDF documents into other formats (for example office) very important for a lot of users especially if the original format can be kept

Lighten PDF Converter OCR is pro version of PDF Converter Master. It helps users to easily convert PDF file into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, EPUB, CSV, Plain Text and Image, and keep the original formatting as accurate as possible. This helps you to edit or manage the file in any way you need while keeping its original format. The built-in advance OCR function make it easy to perform text recognition and extract text from scanned PDF file. It is the best choice for office professionals, academic users and small business.

Homepage:

https://www.lightenpdf.com/pdf-converter-ocr.html

Current version: 5.3.0

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Download:

https://www.lightenpdf.com/upload/downlo...r-v530.exe

File Size: 49.8MB

System Requirements

Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista and XP (all editions)
Does not require Microsoft office and Adobe product installed
Recommended hardware Processor: 2GHz Processor, 1G RAM:, 200MB Free HDD Space

Installation:

After you download the installer file, simply double click and follow on screen instructions. In a few seconds you will have the program working on your computer. You have 30 days free trial to test all the program features before purchase of a license key. The free trial has a limitation of 3 page conversion

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Multi language support:

You can change the user interface to enjoy using the program in your own language. This is available from help drop down menu

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Registration: 

Use the email address and the license key sent to you after purchase to register online

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User Interface:

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Check for updates:

Can be done manually from the drop down menu of the help button located in the upper right part

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What's New?

1.Added EPUB as output format;
2.Other enhancements

Features and uses:

PDF is a real headache sometimes, especially when you want to make change or copy the content to the other document formats. Save yourself some time, let Lighten PDF Converter OCR get the conversion job done.

It can quickly convert PDF into 8 common document formats, including Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel), EPUB, RTF, image and plain text.

Lighten PDF Converter OCR is designed for saving your precious time.

Rich Choices of output formats

Lighten PDF Converter OCR lets you view and convert PDF files into 9 common document formats. You can convert PDF to Microsoft Word (.docx, .doc) for easier editing, copying and any other revision. In addition, you can easily extract data to Excel (.xlsx) or csv for better data analysis performance. If you are planning to present the PDF in PowerPoint Presentation (.pptx), the process is very easy using this app. Many users prefer EPUB format EPUB for better reading experiences, using the app you can easily convert PDF to flowable EPUB. Besides, if you just want the plain text or image, .txt and .jpg is available. Actually it is an 9-in-1 PDF Converter!

Retain the look and feel accurately:

PDF and Office are totally different document formats, Lighten PDF Converter OCR will try its best to keep the original contents, formatting, layouts and graphic elements as accurate as possible. It puts tabular data into the right cell in Excel Spreadsheet. It keeps original look and feel of even complicated PDF file in Word document. It will also preserve layouts in PowerPoint output file.
This feature is very important for you as you don't need to spend hours tweaking the output file.

Convert PDF to Word

Microsoft Word is one of the most familiar document formats. Students have to deal with a lot of PDF files and Word docs every day. Switching between these two documents is a real hassle.
Using Lighten PDF Converter, you can convert PDF into Microsoft Word document (.docx), while preserving the original font style, color, images, formatting and layouts of the PDF document.

Convert PDF to Excel

Excel is one of the most common formats used by a lot of users especially accountants, bankers, engineers, consultants. All you need is to try Lighten PDF Converter OCR. If you have ever received a data entry job, you can easily extract data from PDF quickly and output Excel (.xlsx, .csv). The powerful table detection and flexible output options make the process very easy, it can deal with the most complex table data without problems. You can even manually mark table areas before conversion. PDF to Excel conversion focuses on data, you can make fewer mistakes and save more energy.

Convert PDF to PowerPoint

If you are a presenter, then sure you need this feature. It is very important for you to convert the presentation into PDFs for distribution then recover the PowerPoint (.pptx) from PDF without efforts. PDF to PowerPoint Conversion will preserve the original layouts, content and graphics well. Reusing the presentation can not be easier.

Recognize and extract text from scanned PDF with OCR

The program has a built-in Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for dealing with scanned PDF files conversion. OCR will try to recognize text characters according to their shapes and looks, so it can extract text contents out of scanned PDF file. Without OCR you will have image instead of editable text contents in the output documents. OCR is now available for 9 languages, including: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Polish and Dutch.

Convert PDF efficiently and flexibly

Convert large PDF files at high speed, support unlimited PDF file conversion, you can convert thousands of files at one time. With customizable options, you can convert PDF file automatically, or customize output option. For example, you can customize output image quality when you convert PDF to Image, convert all pages to one sheet or different sheets in PDF to Excel conversion etc.

Build-in PDF Reader

Quickly view PDF files within the app, built-in PDF reader renders PDF even faster than many PDF readers.

Convert protected PDF

Convert PDF file with copying and printing restrictions without problems. If PDF has open password, enter it before conversion.

Support large PDF conversion

Convert unlimited PDF files at one time, convert large PDF file with hundreds of pages without problem.

User Friendly interface

Extremely easy to use, simply add PDF files, select output formats, click 'Convert' button, it will do the rest.

Convert complex table data effortlessly

Detect and analyze table data automatically or lets you manually mark tables. Especially useful for PDF to Excel conversion.

Extremely fast conversion

Fast document reconstruction, it takes only less than 1 min to convert a 100-page file.

Great compatibility

Support all versions of Microsoft Office, including Office 2003,2007,2010,2016.

Flexible output options

According to your needs, you can customize output options for different output formats.

HOW TO USE THE PROGRAM?

The use of the program is very simple. All you need to do is to add as many PDF files as you need, select the output format, page range and location (path) then convert. Just 3 steps and you are done!

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Tips (to help you):

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These are some Videos to help you:

How to Convert PDF to Word, Excel, PowerPoint?



How to Extract Table from PDF to Office Efficiently



How to Convert Scanned PDF to Editable Word document?



Optical Character Recognition (OCR):

If you have scanned PDF documents, no problem as the application is able to recognize and extract text information out of scanned document, such as PDF, TIFF, or other document image files. All you have to do is to activate OCR option using OCR option button then check perform OCR and choose the language. That’s all!

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Customizable Output Options:

The program has built-in options for different output formats. If the button is grey then no options are available for the selected output format. Options are available for Excel, CSV, Text, EPUB and image output formats

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Table conversion options:

If your PDF document includes some tables, the program will automatically detect these tables so that it is kept in the output file. You can manually detect the table using the bar above the preview window which shows many buttons such as show table edit table, image area, remove table area, add vertical line, add horizontal line, remove table lines, merge and split cells. These options can be seen using right click menu

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Right Click menu options:

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Conclusion:

Lighten PDF Converter OCR is the most comprehensive PDF Converter that lets you deal with many PDF in a professional easy way. You can easily convert PDF to Office and more. With OCR function, it can also convert scanned PDF into editable document. It will help you and save your time
 
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#2
Nice one Tarek.
How was the OCR output?
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#3
thanks for very well review. Heart Heart
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#4
Yet another well done informative review. Enjoyed reading this.
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#5
Thanks for good review
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#6
An interesting program. Thank you for the description.
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#7
I like the user-friendly GUI features.
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