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| PDF Converter Professional 5.0 | 
 enlarge | From: Nuance Communications, Inc.
Category: Software
List Price: $99.99
Buy New: $69.86
You Save: $30.13 (30%)
New (25) Used (1) from $69.86
Avg. Customer Rating:  25 reviews
Sales Rank: 228
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Xp, Windows Vista, Windows
Media: CD-ROM
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.1 x 1.6
MPN: M109A-G00-5.00
Model: M109A-G01-5.0
UPC: 780420117938
EAN: 0780420118034
ASIN: B001327K8O
Release Date: March 2, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Brand New/ Exact Item as pictured, Same thing major stores sell for $100 + tax except bottom seal was carefully opened to inspect inside contents of retail box...this is done to insure that the software is indeed enclosed and that it is not damaged in any way, Ships with FREE Upgrade to 1st Class Mail, (email us for delivery confirmation/tracking #/please allow 24-48 hours for reply), Every purchase comes with our 100% Customer Satisfaction Guarantee, We are a 13 year old family owned business with 2 local retail stores here in Ft. Myers, FL...Buy with Confidence!
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 Don't buy this product there is no no no no SUPORT. September 30, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Try and regester this product is an impossibility. The questions asked of you are not only personal but intrusive. Your reward for opting out of the process on page 8 is to be gifted with a product that produces immages with "Trial Version" posted diagonally over every page.
No one to talk to no help at all. I just purchased Adobe Professional and now the job is done properly with no intrusion into my personal life.
Listen to the one star people here...and save yourself some time and money.
 Good Software, Terrible Support September 19, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The software is good. But the company, Nuance, makes it very difficult to install or reinstall PDF Converter 5 and charges a hefty fee for service calls. Because of the installation and reinstallation problems and poor support, I am looking for another product for the same job.
 Excellent product September 4, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
I have tested this software in several tasks and I'm very pleased with it.
The software installed well, run without problems and I have not had any problem with the operative system. My OS is Windows XP service pack 2.
The software make very good work with any kind of PDF and in my experience the format is almost the same that the original. To convert to PDF there are several opitions of security and even you can configure one personal.
The interface is easy to manage and intuitive. Maybe the process to register is not easy and this is something to improve in the future.
I have not used the support yet because I have not had problems with the product.
September 6:
In these days I have known the product pdf printer that make a good job and is very intuiteve, so I believe that nuance should think about improve its interface and that it could be very pleasant for the user to have a tree structure similar to the explorer to achieve the pdf conversion's process instead of use the interface of the pfd create and this could make the software a very good one.
PDF Professioinal Converter 5 September 3, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This product would not work properly in a fully updated Windows XP Professional system and fully updated Internet Explorer 6.X.
It would open *.PDF files that had been saved to my hard drive but would not open *.PDF files that were accessed through links from Outlook Express. It would open some internet resident files that were accessed directly from Internet Explorer.
Both Adobe Reader 8.X and 9.X had no problem opening the same *.PDF files.
Great perseverance was required to return this product to its manufacturer, Nuance, without paying return postage.
 Product seems to work OK so far. Activation & tech support stinks! August 27, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I'm on day 1 of using this software.
Creating a PDF is working fine.
Converting an existing PDF to MS Word is working fine, so far.
Converting an existing PDF with a table inside it; into MS excel is working OK, so far.
Annoyances/problems:
1. After installing software onto my PC, an annoying "activation" NAG screen keeps popping up everytime/anytime I launch the program and/or toggle between CREATING a PDF vs CONVERTING a PDF.
Plus it decrements from 30 uses to none.
So off I went to ACTIVATE this whiner!
2. Activation:
a. I just went online, registered, and then activated it, but apparently it requires further MANUAL intervention by the enduser (lazy programmers at Nuance).
Because I am still getting the pop-up about not being activated.
b. License key & activation problems:
The setup/installation onto your PC works just fine with numbers and LOWER case letters . [For entering the alpha-numeric license code during installation of the software onto your PC].
But as soon as you get to Nuance's website and try to activate/register,
by using their "Paste-serial-number-from-clipboard" button, you get an error!
These boneheads keep kicking back your serial number as INCORRECT until you make it ONLY numbers and only "UPPER case" letters.
(why doesn't Nuance spend a couple bucks on a 5 minute programming "FIX" and let the stinking webpage AUTO correct a small issue like these)
Next, trying to correct a serial number which was already "pasted" into the Nuance webform box [but contained lower-case letters]. Whenever I'd click my mouse next to a lower case letter and try to CHANGE it to an UPPERcase letter, a wretched pop-up window keeps WHINING about using "The PASTE button function only".
For every 1 lower-case letter you try to change to upper-case; you have to answer 2 pop-up windows and make them go away.
[Hey tightwads, fix your website's serial number entry form).
[Go to Elance and hire a programmer for $2.00 an hour and FIX the problem with "YOUR" [NUANCE's] website]
I tried to be nice and contact Nuisance (whoops, I mean Nuance) about their problem.
(Starting off an end-user experience like this is NOT going to endear me to rush out and buy any more NUANCE products; especially if they can't make the registration & activation process easier, functional and more streamlined)
Here's a frustrating experience; Just try contacting these Tight-fisted pukes with a simple FYI, to tell them about a website issue of their's.
These pukes expect you to shell out $9.95 per incident just to contact them.
Sorry dudes, I'm not paying to fix YOUR website problems.
SUMMARY:
Pros - products looks/acts OK so far.
- cheaper than Adobe
Cons - Just hope you NEVER need to contact NUANCE for ANYTHING.
Or I should say; PLAN to NEVER contact them.
[you can't even throw them a bone about how to improve their website without getting hit up for $9.95]
-poor activation web setup
- Deceptive/hidden cost details about tech support :
- no mention on software box
- no mention inside box, nor in User manual
I bought this program for myself.
Once I test-drove it awhile, I was going to make recommendations to a large client about maybe switching to Nuance (from Adobe).
I really have my doubts now; especially regarding their "nickel & dime-ing" attitude toward their end-users.
09-24-2008 update:
I tried converting a bunch of pdf's to word, so i can work with the data within the pdf's.
The program goes fairly fast through the conversion process, until you reach 99%. Then it sits there for what seems like an eternity.
My core-2-duo is not pegged for CPU usage (only 25-50%), but the hard disk light is almost solid.
I found that this program really has a hard time with any text within a book's front cover. Mostly comes out as a mangled mess.
The text pages are decent in the translation.
But plan to run auto-format within Word, to get things cleaned up.
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