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.

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.

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!

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.

I have been able to use the program without worrying about accuracy (Especially Excel exports)

The program is simple to use and it has a high accuracy functionality. This saves time as the documents are a great replication of the original but the opportunity to edit and even repurpose the original documents is there. When needing such functionality the program has proved to be robust and simple to work with. Able2 Extract does not interfere with you as a user but their team is available and responsive to my needs and or questions. The program development is not static and it is regularly updated whilst maintaining the "look". This diminishes the down time to learn the program at every stage of development. It is compatible with Microsoft.

Perhaps some trainings on the less known parts of the program?

I've used a lot of PDF conversion / editing tools over the years and Able2Extract is by far the best one. It's very easy to use and understand and their customer service is great.

Ease of use and customer service is outstanding!

It's difficult to register the product again once you get a new laptop, but customer service is always on hand to help.

On a daily basis I get pdf documents from clients, some have fallen out with their architects so we cant get the raw CAD File to annotate or edit. Able2Extract is ABLE to EXTRACT any pdf even scanned ones. Brilliant!

Its quite intuitive, easy to use and fast

I cant think of ANYTHING! It does everything I have asked of it and the new version is fast.

Making pdf's editable

Ease of use. Ongoing improvements. Customer Service.

Conversions from pdf to Windows and PPT is excellent. Conversion from pdf to Excel is lacking

Huge saving in obtaining data from previous exploration, this can involve many years of data and we were able to convert it for use in our analysis.

ability to convert data and detailed descriptions to Excel and Word with a high success rate We deal with a lot of historic data that we scan to PDF and then convert for our use. To hand type the huge amounts of data would be expensive, by scanning and converting it is relatively simple to do. Able2extract drag and drop and selection capability works really well.

For our purposes it works very well and havent identified any Cons

Excellent! I already recommend to everyone. I've also shown my wife and 12 yr old daughter how to use it to hep me.

Better than other similar products I've tried in accurately converting PDFs to Word or Excel. When I've had questions, staff have ALWAYS resolved my issues promptly and professionally, and even converted difficult docs for me!

Can't think of anything. Really can't think of anything. Nothing coming to mind yet.

Saves me time and aggravation in dealing with PDF's from banks and credit card companies.

I couldn't imagine doing my tax preparation without this great tool. I simply download my bank statements and credit card year end summaries in pdf form, extract the data to excel, do a little sorting and sifting and voila! data is ready for my accountant.

There's not much I DON'T like about Able to Extract. In fact I can't think of a thing. It just works!

Great value and utility. I use it almost every day

Sometimes the product is too powerful for my simple needs

I have been using Able2Extract for many years now and it consistently performs the job of PDF > Word extraction for indexing and research.

Able2Extract 12 is easy to use, straight-forward to access and just works.

Table handling could be a little better at times - but it's still lightyears ahead of the competition.

See previous sections.

Originally I was tasked with transcribing a 500+ page document that had been photocopied more than 10 years ago. After converting each page to a pdf, I was able to create and merge a fully accurate, well formatted Word document for further editing. Using Able2Extract Professional cut a month's long task to a couple of days. I have since used the software to create and merge other Excel and Word documents with high success.

Some diacritical marks did not convert directly, off-square documents presented some conversion problems, but all were much more easily corrected than having to start transcribing from scratch.

Been using this software since version 11 and has been critical in my work to convert a PDF into an Excel table for use with my software.

New version takes some time to get use to. In older version was able to designate pages to convert, but cannot in this newest version.

Great. I like that I can use this when needed.

Easy to use and I am able to take a scanned document and move to another format such as word or excel quickly.

More in depth tutorials would be helpful on how to set up a template that you can use often.

My young niece told me about this software. I was using my scanner, and OCR software to do my jobs. Sometimes I have to download a pdf file, a bank statement, or other doc and put it in Excel so that I can import to my accounting software. This product was a life saver. Saves me so much time. And Easy to use.

This is so easy to use and so fast - taking a pdf or article, and moving it to Excel or Word. I don't do a lot of serious work that I need this software, but when I need to use it, it saves me time. I LOVE IT!!

So far , can complain about a thing. It is not expensive and easy to use.

Converting batch pdf files to excel for data scraping.

Product is SO easy to use. It paid for itself in under three minutes (no exaggeration).

N/A This does everything I need it do do.