How typing may lead to madness (and how to avoid it)
Warning: shameless self-promotion ahead
The Psychology of Typing
Sometimes, there is no way around it. You just have to sit down and spend an hour—or two, or three—typing. It’s boring and often infuriating. Boredom, as Wikipedia tells us, leads to anxiety. And mixing anger with anxiety can lead to—madness!

And so, at Cogniview, we have decided to create a new product line that will help lessen anger and anxiety in the world. Products that dramatically reduce the amount of typing in your life. The new Typing Freeâ„¢ product line.
A typing-free world
PDF2XL is our primary and best-selling product. Several thousands of clients are already using it and IMO it’s the best PDF to Excel conversion tool in the universe (I’ll admit I am a bit biased).
So if you want to avoid typing data from PDF documents to Excel, give PDF2XL a try.

PDF2XL OCR is a new product. It combines OCR technology from IRIS Software with PDF2XL’s data extraction interface.
I am proudest of two features in PDF2XL OCR:
- The data-validation module: Every OCR engine has recognition errors, but one thing that most OCR tools lack is a way to efficiently browse through the suspected words and correct recognition errors. Our data validation module displays the suspected word and the image of the actual word from the document side by side (with a huge zoom). This helps you catch a problem in a fraction of a second, because your eyes see the difference and you don’t actually have to read.
- The numerical column: An OCR engine works about a million times better if you tell it that it is trying to identify a number (I’ll expand on that if anyone is interested). When you define a column as numeric in PDF2XL OCR, it asks you whether you want to try to improve results by rerunning the OCR only on that column!
If you need to convert data from scanned documents to Excel, give PDF2XL OCR a try.

PDF2XL Enterprise is really a magical tool. It combines a print driver with an extraction tool. You can print whatever you want to it and then extract the data to Excel. It also includes all the functionality of PDF2XL and PDF2XL OCR.
Check it out. It’s really cool!

The secret, sure-fire way to avoid madness, hand cramps and blindness
Buy one of our products. They are good for your health!
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Posted on January 22, 2007 by Yoav Ezer
Filed Under Cogniview, Excel, Funny, PDF
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