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About Able2Extract Professional
Able2Extract Professional converts PDF files into Microsoft Excel, Word, CSV, AutoCAD, HTML, images and other formats. Its PDF to Excel conversion keeps the table layout, and it offers output preview, reusable conversion templates and batch conversion of hundreds of files at once. OCR turns scanned PDFs into editable documents.
It also edits PDFs: adding and changing text, inserting images, splitting pages, compressing, annotating, attaching files and repairing damaged documents. It runs fully offline on Windows, macOS and Linux and is sold as a lifetime license.
Strengths
- Accurate PDF to Excel conversion with templates and preview
- Batch conversion of hundreds of files
- OCR for scanned PDFs
- Runs on Windows, macOS and Linux, fully offline
Limitations
- Paid software, not open source
- Focused on conversion more than full document authoring
Details
- Pricing
- PaidPaid lifetime license with no recurring fees; a free trial is available.
- License
- Proprietary (Proprietary)
- Developer
- Investintech
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Works offline
- Yes
- Best suited for
- People who regularly pull tables and text out of PDFs into spreadsheets or Word
- Categories
- PDF tools, Office tools
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
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