ScanSoft PDF CREATE! 3-HELP Reference guide

ScanSoft PDF Converter 3

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Welcome

Welcome to ScanSoft PDF Converter 3!

ScanSoft®PDF Converter 3 lets you convert PDF files to editable documents for

Microsoft®Word, Microsoft Excel and CorelTM WordPerfect®. It also lets you open

PDF files directly from these applications, edit them and save them in the

appropriate file type.

To learn more about ScanSoft's office productivity and speech recognition

solutions, please visit www.scansoft.com.

prior notice.

This program is protected by US and International copyright laws as described in

the About panel and in the topic Additional Resources.

Introduction

Portable Document Format was introduced to publish documents across

computing platforms with a high-fidelity "as is" appearance. The ScanSoft PDF

Converter unlocks the content of PDF files, allowing large-scale editing and

reformatting to be done in Microsoft Word or other target applications. The

converter is designed to replicate the original PDF pages as closely as possible,

keeping columns, titles, pictures and framed elements as they were. To do this,

the converter has to explore and interpret the logical relationships and structures

used to store the document’s formatting in the PDF format.

PDF Converter opens PDF file versions from 1.0 to 1.6.

Note: ScanSoft PDF Converter 3 is designed to unlock PDF files; it does not

convert documents to the PDF format. The sister product, ScanSoft PDF Create!

3 performs this task.

PDF Converter has two main dialog boxes:

PDF Converter Assistant

This lets you start conversions, giving you a preview of the PDF file to be

converted and providing control over the process.

PDF Converter Settings

This can be called from the Tools menu of Microsoft Word, Excel, or

WordPerfect. When called from Word, it lets you choose whether to use

the PDF Converter Assistant or not for future conversions started from the

Microsoft Word Open dialog box. It also provides access to other settings.

PDF Converter distinguishes three types of PDF conversions:

Document,Form and Spreadsheet conversions.

You must specify before starting which type of conversion you want, because

PDF Converter uses different algorithms for each. When you use the PDF

Converter Assistant, specify this in its first panel (Preview). If you dismiss the

Assistant (in the File Open Settings panel of the PDF Converter Settings dialog

box), you must specify whether future one-click processing will be converting

PDF files as documents or forms. Your settings are stored separately for each

type of conversion.

Language support

When converting PDF files as documents or spreadsheets, ScanSoft PDF

Converter can handle over a hundred languages using the Latin alphabet,

including Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German,

Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish. It can

convert multi-lingual documents. When converting PDF files as forms, eleven

languages are supported. A full list of supported languages is provided.

Converting image-only pages with OCR (Document Options panel) needs also a

language choice. Click Settings to check the language selection. The same

language selection is valid for recognizing non-standard encoded pages.

How to get Help

This product is supplied with a printed Quick Reference Guide giving mainly

installation and activation guidance. This guide is available in a PDF file on the

CD and after installation in the program folder, named pdf converter quick

reference-xxx.pdf, where xxx denotes your installation language. It can also be

accessed from the About panel. When the program is delivered electronically,

this PDF document should be consulted. It is available at the download site.

All program screens and some warning messages have Help buttons.

Press F1 or click the Help button when the About panel is displayed to open the

online Help provided in a PDF file. Use the bookmarks or the search function in

your PDF viewer to find the information you need. You can download a PDF

viewer free of charge from the internet. ScanSoft PDF Converter Professional

can also display PDF files.

System Requirements

The following are the minimum system requirements to install and run the

ScanSoft®PDF Converter 3.0:

A computer with at least an Intel®Pentium®processor or comparable

Microsoft Windows®98 (from second edition), Windows Me, Windows

2000, or Windows XP

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.1 or above

64 MB of memory (RAM), 128 MB recommended

90 MB of free hard disk space for application files plus 5 MB working

space during installation

5 MB for Microsoft Installer (MSI) if not present. (This is present as part of

the operating system in Windows Me, Windows 2000 and Windows XP)

SVGA monitor with 256 colors, but preferably 16-bit color (called High

Color in Windows 2000 and Medium Color in XP) and 800 x 600 pixel

resolution

Windows-compatible pointing device

CD-ROM drive for installation

Internet connection for activation, de-activation and automatic program

updates.

Conversion can be performed whether or not the target applications are installed

on your system. However, to use the results, you need the applications

associated to the target file types you want to use (for example Microsoft Word

97, Microsoft Word 2000, Microsoft Word XP or Microsoft Word 2003 (SP1) for

.doc files, the same versions of Microsoft Excel for .xls files and Corel

WordPerfect 9 through 12 for .wpd files).

Note: Performance and speed will be enhanced if your computer’s processor,

memory, and available disk space exceed minimum requirements. This is

especially true when converting very large color PDF files.

Installation and Activation

Please uninstall any previous version of PDF Converter before the

installation.

1. Insert the CD-ROM in your CD-ROM drive

The installation program will start automatically. If it does not, locate your

CD-ROM drive in Windows Explorer and double-click the converter’s

setup.exe file. Choose a language for the installation. The InstallShield®

Wizard will appear.

(If you have downloaded the converter from the ScanSoft web site just

double-click its setup.exe file.)

2. Follow the on-screen instructions

You must accept the license agreement in order to proceed.

You must enter a serial number. You will find this on the CD sleeve or on

the ScanSoft web site at the download location. Be sure to keep the serial

number in a safe place; it is fully checked only during product activation

and is also needed for any re-installations.

The installer offers a default location for the program. Accept it or define a

different one.

In the program folder's sub-folders you will find the Readme file in HTML

format and the Quick Reference Guide in PDF format.

3. Click Finish

4. Register

Registration runs at the end of installation. Select Register Online to

establish a connection to the ScanSoft web site. We provide an easy

electronic form that can be completed in a few minutes. When the form is

filled, click Submit.

If you decide not to register or to be reminded later, you can go to

www.scansoft.com to register online any time later. Click on Support and

from the main support screen choose Register in the left-hand column.

For a statement on the use of your registration data, please see

ScanSoft’s Privacy Policy.

5. Activate

You will be invited to activate the product at the end of installation. Please

ensure that web access is available. Provided your serial number is found

at its storage location and has been correctly entered, no user interaction

is required and no personal information is transmitted.

If you do not activate the product at installation time, you will be invited to

do this each time you invoke the program. PDF Converter can be

launched only five times without activation.

Note: Any earlier version of PDF Converter should be removed before installing

version 3. Keep the serial number of the earlier version, to retain the option of

installing it on a different computer.

Note: The user performing installation or un-installation should have

Administrator rights on the computer. Administrator rights are recommended for

activation and de-activation.

Note: You will be allowed to re-install the program a reasonable number of times

without having re-activation problems, because uninstallation includes a de-

activation step. The serial number is needed for re-installation and web access is

needed for de-activation and re-activation.

Note: The program can be installed on a server and pushed to local computers in

a Local Area Network (LAN). Please contact ScanSoft for license information and

separate documentation.

New Features

Support for spreadsheet output from tables in PDF files.

New output formats WordPerfect, Microsoft Excel and Rich Text (RTF).

An extended range of PDF files can be successfully converted.

Built-in OCR helps in converting image-only files into textual documents

without the requirement to have a separate OCR program installed.

Document analysis and layout retention capabilities are improved.

Starting the Program

To make the services of PDF Converter easy to call on, it can be started from

several locations:

1. The Windows Start Menu

2. The Open PDF button in a Microsoft Word toolbar

3. The Open dialog box in Microsoft Word

4. From Microsoft Outlook

5. From Microsoft Internet Explorer

6. From Windows Explorer

7. From Microsoft Excel

8. From WordPerfect

Procedures

1. The Windows Start Menu

1. Choose Start, then Programs or All Programs, then ScanSoft PDF

Converter 3.0.

2. Choose PDF Converter Assistant from the sub-menu. The PDF Converter

Assistant appears displaying its Preview panel.

3. Decide the output file format first.

Select Document for general conversions and then choose Microsoft

Word, WordPerfect or Rich Text Format under Target.

Select Form for PDF files containing forms. The only target application

is Microsoft Word is this case.

Select Spreadsheet for PDF files containing tables that you want

converted to spreadsheets. The only target application is Microsoft

Excel.

4. Enter a PDF file name with full path and extension or browse to select a

file and click Open. A preview of the first PDF page appears.

5. Use the navigation buttons to view other pages.

6. Accept or modify the offered name and path for the output file to be

created. The offered name and path are those of the input PDF. Only the

extension is changed from PDF to DOC, RTF or XLS depending on your

previous choice under Convert as.

7. Use the checkmark under the file names to have the converted document

opened in the target application.

8. Set a page range if desired. See Preview panel.

9. Move through other PDF Converter Assistant panels specifying settings.

See Document Options panel, Form Options panel and Spreadsheet

Options panel. Only one of these panels will be active, depending on the

choice made under point 3.

10.Click Convert to begin conversion according to your settings.

11.The converted file is saved to disk under the name you specified. It is

loaded into the target application if you requested that.

2. The Open PDF button in a Microsoft Word toolbar

1. Click the Open PDF button in a Microsoft Word toolbar or the Open

PDF... item in the File menu. The Open dialog box appears and behind it

the PDF Converter Assistant with its Preview panel.

2. Enter a PDF file name with full path and extension or browse to select a

file and click Open. A preview of the first PDF page appears in the

Assistant.

3. Decide the output file format first: Document or Form.

4. Use the navigation buttons to view other pages.

5. Accept or modify the offered name and path for the Word file to be

created. The offered name and path are those of the input PDF. Only the

extension is changed from PDF to DOC. The named file will be displayed

in Word when conversion is finished.

6. Set a page range if desired. See Preview panel.

7. Move through other PDF Converter Assistant panels specifying settings.

See Document Options panel and Form Options panel.

8. Click Open to begin conversion according to your settings.

9. The converted file is saved to disk under the name you specified, and is

loaded into Microsoft Word.

Note: If you do not see the PDF button in a toolbar, go to View / Toolbars and

select the PDF Converter toolbar.

3. The Open dialog box in Microsoft Word

1. Click Open or go to the Microsoft Word File menu and click Open...

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