I've used this software for a long time now - many years. The company upgrades it regularly and the improvements are always valuable in terms of performance and ease of use.

Great software! Does what it promises to do without any drama... even for a non-technical person.

It's simply really good software that works consistently with minimal effort and technical knowledge!

It saves one from having to hand enter data.

Ease of use. I can train a worker to use it in well in under two hours. It is also more accurate than any other stand alone OCR software I've experimented with. I've downloaded and used free trials of at least four other OCR software programs, and they don't do as good of a job at converting the fairly hard to convert (very old) images of tables I'm converting to data files.

Version 12 had just one new feature for converting, and Version 11 the year before had no new features. I was really looking forward to 12, because I was hoping they would add some of the suggestions I've made, but was disappointed. In 12, one has more of an ability to apply the same table structure to non-consecutive pages, but it has a bug and does not work well. My worker actually went back to using 11, she says 12 is bad. Some of the features I keep asking them for: 1) be able to specify that a column is nothing but numbers when manually setting table structures. This seems simple to program. 2) produce uncertainty estimates in cells next to the data table that is produced. This could speed up cleaning the resulting data file a lot. The program knows when it's uncertain, just have it report this. 3) Allow more keyboard shortcuts when setting up tables manually. It is common when setting up table structures to switch between "add column" (i.e., "add a column divider") and "delete column." It's often easier to just go through the entire file one time to add column breaks, and then go back a second time deleting unwanted column dividers. This is inefficient. 4) One should have the ability to specify in advance the number of columns tables will have before having Able2Extract set table structures. This is the first step of manually setting table structures as well as done in automatically converting. It's often faster to just delete all the tables, apply one tab

Very poor experience. I purchased version 19 on 9 Dec 23. MacOS version was not available. I emailed [sensitive content hidden] to complain that I parted with my money but the product was unavailable. He confirmed that their team were working on the issue and it would be available soon. It's now 3 Jan 24 and since then he has not replied to me email and I still don't have/can use the product I paid for. Very unpleasant experience and would not recommend this company or product to anyone I know.

There is nothing to like - Able2Extract took my hard earned money and didn't provide the product I paid for.

Don't like being defrauded/ignored ... No will to correct their poor service or treatment of client.

Its good product and economical too. Signature functionality is not quite good as DocuSign or Adobe but these software are costly too.

It is a very good product for those who are in the field of Bookkeeping and Accounting as it is convert the most bank accounts.

Its good for all pdf format to convert to Excel, Word etc. challenge to convert the image file. We tried a lot but most of the time we need to rework on those converted file.

With this upgrade and an understanding of its capabilities—especially its very strong OCR engine—I had hoped to set it up as an easy way to process PDFs. If there were an easy way to have the software watch a folder, automatically run OCR and save the results, this program would be worth its weight in gold. But alas, even when coupled with an app like Hazel or Keyboard Maestro, the software doesn't play well with others. It's great software within its narrow use case, but there is so much more possibility there.

Able2Extract Professional is very capable software. If you're looking for a way to automate moving static PDF charts and tables into Excel sheets with minimal errors or fuss, skip Adobe and get this.

Able2Extract could be much more than the sum of its parts if the developer focused on use cases beyond just conversions to MS Office applications.

This is a very cost effective product to change different file types to other file types. Super easy to go from pdf to excel which is what we mainly use it for.

In my role, I need to transfer numbers from pdfs onto spreadsheets. Prior to using this software everything was done manually. Able2Extract has made this process so easy. We have been using this product for almost 10 years now!

I have no cons with this software. It does everything that we want it to quickly and easily. Would recommend to anyone who needs to transfer data from a pdf into an excel spreadsheet.

The time savings on using this to convert files is more then I can calculate.

This program is awesome. Apart from being able to convert a pdf into an excell sheet, or so many other file format conversions, I recently discovered, you can tak a pdf that does not offer searchable text, or is basically an image that has text in it, and convert it to a complete text file. Making it able to copy and paste, search and much more functionality

I dont really have anything bad to say about this program. The only thing they do a lot of updates and that requires an upgrade, granted at a discounted rate, but honestly the last version works so well, I dont always upgrade as there is no need.

Many of our business reports are output to PDF reports that are password-protected by the software that creates them, and they are not able to be edited. Financial auditors like to receive the data in Excel format so they can easily do calculations on the numbers, and Able2Extract lets us provide them with that format FAST!

It's just so very easy to use. In less than a minute, I can open up one of our PDF reports, select all, click the Excel button and have the figures I need to work with in a spreadsheet. Character recognition is accurate, and it converts quickly.

Sometimes header rows and off-center items can confuse the columns breaks a little bit, and you end up with things that are split, or in the wrong column.

We create Excel workbooks for gain/loss input in tax software and Word documents for deeds and estate planning work

Ease of use in creating new documents from PDFs

Sometimes the software guesses wrong about words so that review is required and sometimes formatting is off. Having a very clean PDF helps

All in all its good and not so expensive

It has OCR, and its easy to use. Extracting useful info from pdf and making tables got easy

Sometimes does not align table rows properly, i have to use manual selection of tables.

The software is easy to install and very user friendly, I have not had to contact support for help.

This software is an excellent tool for extracting schedules from plans. I especially like that it will convert it directly to an Excel spreadsheet and maintain the majority of the formatting.

I have run across a few fonts that the OCR does not convert very accurately.

Converting numerous documents to Excel.

Almost everything, ease of use, being able to manageage output.

Punctuation, characters, font size, column width could all use improvements but 12 is the best yet.

The OCR and conversion of pdf to Excel or Word is great, and having a piece of stand-alone software is far superior to an online subscription.

Nothing comes to mind; it's been really helpful

Over all, this is a good software that I continue to use. However, I feel like it's moving away from data extraction and becoming more concerned with PDF annotation. While I don't mind, I certainly haven't noticed much change in data extraction between the versions I've used. I feel like 14 was the best version. The more recent versions have been slower or have put out more "garbage" data.

I love being able to extract my data into various file formats. I use the Excel feature the most. However, I love being able to export presentations and import them into powerpoint.

I've found that the software either does well, or doesn't do well. I wish I could set a default font size for extraction.

I am happy with it until today. Hope I have no chance to replace it!

no comment. The tool is alright. Get it can work faster

nothing. Improve and cost less. improve the OCR the size of the words on the tabs can be bigger. Any zoom tools, or size settings?

PDF editing The ability to convert PDF's directly into Autocad Text recognition into CADExtracting images to windows

It took me ages to know about the benefits of the upgrade to the professional version

well integrated, ease of use.

speed in which it coverts files to Word. Upgrade was easy to apply to my PC.

hard to see at times. Fopnt is too light and small, Needs larger font and shadings.

It's the best. I need this software in my business and use it at least weekly, if not everyday. I have tried several but this is by far the most reliable and gets the job done.

Reliable. It gets the job done! Easy. Like Buddah!!!!

I wish that the fields were consisted from page to page, when converting a large document....sometimes there is a shift in fields...but it is an easy fix.

Makes my work with AutoCAD easier

Very easy to work with.the fact that I need it to

The fact that I needed to uninstall 11 before I could use 12

Often I am given documents containing data that I need for analytical purposes, but I need the data in Excel. In the past, this meant a lot of typing. Now, a quick pass through Able2Extract, a quick proofing of the numbers, and ready to go.

The software is easy to use. Depending on the quality of the PDF file, conversion to Excel or Word is almost error free.

No issues that I have experienced, but I haven't tried all the features.

I originally acquired this software several years ago for my personal use but must acknowledge that it has evolved into a very professional tool that would be a useful for any organisation to have.

I am not a regular user of this professional software but it is a very useful tool that I would not hesitate to recommend.

Would like to be able to migrate the software to a new computer when such a rare need arises.

We have found Able2 Extract of value to the business particularly with conversion of documents emailed to us and shared internally which can be easily converted for editing and inclusion in reports.

Ease of use and continuous improvement of the product over the sixteen years we have used it.

Don't have any dislikes or criticisms of the product

Intuitive and very user friendly for all sorts of requirements. The product has continually become more versatile.

On Occassion it is difficult to put the lines through information to form an excel spreadsheet with data

Overall, it is excellent.

I use this mostly for converting pdf documents to excel - pricing sheets, construction specs, etc.

It can be a little cumbersome at times, but that's the price of the extensive functionality.