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INfix: easy, capable, but expensive WordPad-like PDF editor

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rjbull:
at least you had the choice of a similar product (hopefully equally good or better)
-tomos (May 31, 2009, 02:23 PM)
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Not sure it does as much, but what it does, seems OK.  Chief drawback I've found so far is with PDFs that are scanned images, where if the font is small, it won't read it, same drawback as Kleptomania.

rjbull:
Nuance PDF Converter Professional 5, on the other hand, will search for text over the entire document but doesn't seem to offer a batch replace feature.
-Darwin (May 28, 2009, 08:57 AM)
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PDF Text Replace Tool (PDF TRT) does batch search-and-replace of multiple strings over multiple files, and does it very efficiently, but results aren't always what you expect, and convenience features are rudimentary.
 

* I tried replacing serial numbers with code numbers that were longer; the replaced text was scrunched up, characters overlaid.  Checking with pdftotext (part of XPDF) showed that the whole text had been correctly replaced.  That seems to mean that the space allocated by the application that made the original PDF wasn't big enough.   Not PDF TRT's fault, but yet another problem that can jump out and bite you.
* Although multiple search-and-replace strings are supported, there's no provision for saving them!  If you want to do the same set again tomorrow, you have to enter them all over again!   :o  I've already e-mailed the author about this.
Darwin, how does Nuance fare on PDFs with small fonts?  Able2Extract tends to fail, not altogether surprising as PDF seems to handle fonts differently from Windows.

Darwin:
Darwin, how does Nuance fare on PDFs with small fonts?  Able2Extract tends to fail, not altogether surprising as PDF seems to handle fonts differently from Windows.
-rjbull (June 09, 2009, 10:37 AM)
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I'm not sure I understand the question - do you mean when creating a document or in searching a pdf or...?

rjbull:
Darwin, how does Nuance fare on PDFs with small fonts?  Able2Extract tends to fail, not altogether surprising as PDF seems to handle fonts differently from Windows.
-rjbull (June 09, 2009, 10:37 AM)
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I'm not sure I understand the question - do you mean when creating a document or in searching a pdf or...?
-Darwin (June 09, 2009, 02:45 PM)
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Sorry - I meant when trying to convert a PDF that's an image file (scanned in) to a Word .DOC or any other editable format.

Darwin:
Nuance does very well, as far as I can tell. I had a scanned image from a Casio calculator user's manual on my harddrive and used Nuance to convert it to editable text (Word docx format). I t can't attach the pdf or Word doc, unfortunately. The result is very good. The font in the Word doc is 7.5 in size. I've attached the jpg so that you can see the original size.

INfix: easy, capable, but expensive WordPad-like PDF editor

EDIT: couldn't post with either pdf or docx attachments - rewritten to reflect this.

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