Your PDF to Excel Conversion Story

Thank you again for your willingness to share your PDF to Excel conversion story with us. We would love to hear why you were looking for a PDF to Excel converter and how using PDF2XL worked for you.

We only ask two things:

1. No foul language please. If your feedback is not positive – that’s OK. In fact it’s more then OK, we learn a lot from feedback. But please… no foul language.

2. If possible, please write your story in English.

And that’s it. Just scroll down to the end of the page and leave your comment there. I am really looking forward to your feedback.

Posted on February 24, 2010 by Yoav Ezer
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150 Responses to “Your PDF to Excel Conversion Story”

Najeeb on February 24th, 2010 4:33 pm

Good thing is it can convert any bullky data very quickly and without any long wizard ,also its interface is very firendly.but its bad thing is it can’t convert scaned PDF files.
Hadar on February 24th, 2010 5:28 pm

Dear Najeeb,

Thank you for your feedback and kind words.

Regarding the ‘Scanned PDF’ files… We have a product called ‘PDF2XL OCR’ which does handle scanned PDF files. You can find it here:

http://www.cogniview.com/pdf2xl-ocr.php

I hope this helps.

You can contact me directly at hadark@cogniview.com if you need any further assistance.

Hadar
Jerry on February 25th, 2010 2:38 am

I am a reseller and have an e-commerce web site “www.usainteriors.com”. I have some wholesalers send me price lists in a PDF file instead of Excel format of which I can’t work off of. But this program has ended the drudgery of copying each PDF box to an excel file. This is the best program I have ever found to make the changes without effort.
Best thing since milk and honey.
Aat on February 25th, 2010 5:28 pm

The software helped me a lot. You can start with converting right away without going through a manual first. Good and usefull package.
Tim Stack on February 25th, 2010 7:29 pm

Fantastic product. Easy and intuitive to work with. Our accounting software only produces PDF output files and it was very time consuming to rekey into Excel to analyze. With just a few clicks I can pull massive amounts of data into Excel via Cogniview very quickly. I use it every day. Your customer service is very good as well. Thanks to Danit for helping me get up and running.
Dave Hoder on February 26th, 2010 3:41 pm

I was recently tasked with extracting several hundred tables from pdf
product catalogs. “No problem, I’ll just get Adobe Acrobat” I thought.
NOT! I downloaded the latest version of Acrobat Pro and it won’t even
extract a table with merged cells. Your software made the task a piece of
cake! Adobe should pay you millions and incorporate this into their
software. Shame on Adobe and cudos to Cogniview. Judging from the
performance this also seems to be one of the most well written pieces of
software I’ve used in years.
Great product guys!

Triage Information Services
Alex B on March 1st, 2010 2:04 am

Brilliant bit of tech.

Quick and easy to use, only downside is trying to erase a table grid i just made quickly, also OCR struggles with some units (may not be the software though). Simple to use and yet has the possibility for more complex operations if needs be.

Cheers guy, great software.

A
John on March 2nd, 2010 7:25 am

I need to get the past 10 years of bank statements into Quicken to track contributions to a Family Trust and establsh a gifting programme. A dawnting task! I’m not typing them!! I wanted an OCR programme that recognised columns of data. I googled “scan columns into xls” and up came “Cogniview PDF2XL”. I downloaded the trail and ran it. It worked perfectly. Beyond my wildest dreams. Absolutely fit for purpose! Did exactly what I needed to do with my bank statements. I was blown away. So quick. So accurate. I immediately purchased the software …. and subsequently upgrades, and am well on the way to getting back-financial data into Quicken. (Converting XLS to QIF is another story … but I’ve got that sorted now as well.)

This product is outstanding.

I also want to acknowledge the tremendous customer service, and in particular, Tammy. 12,000 miles away she doesn’t have to be accommodatiing, let alone nice to me. But she is. The customer service is as outstanding as the product.
Lee Bushnell on March 3rd, 2010 7:10 am

Needed a quick way to analyze a vendor’s invoice. having worked on OCR projects (the PDF was scanned) I was amazed at the accuracy and speed. In seconds I had 4 pages in excel and started working. If my client’s are looking for a PDF decoder, this is where I would take them.
Claudia on March 3rd, 2010 9:26 pm

show!!!!
Tim Sorrentino on March 4th, 2010 6:48 pm

PDF2XL is absolutely brilliant! I’ve been working with computer software and hardware since 1978 in many different capacities; including technical support, software designer, engineer and project manager. After 23 years as a technical career professional I decided to open my own construction business. One of the most obvious things that I learned while working with computers is that technology can be leverage in an industry or area of life. The residential building business is probably one of the most “low-tech” industries and I’ve been able to gain an edge in a very difficult market, against some very savvy and experienced competition, by leveraging technology to increase productivity, quality and customer satisfaction. What most people probably don’t realize is that the residential building business relies heavily on cell phones and fax machines and most sub-contractor and supplier pricing is provide via fax or PDF file and hardly ever in Word or Excel format. PDF2XL is a “Godsend”. I am currently working on a project that involves thousands of price quotes from a variety of suppliers and most of the information is in PDF files and some is just plain hand-written. PDF2XL will allow me to quadruple my productivity as work through arranging, organizing and compiling the cost data from the thousands of price quotes that I’m working through. I had evaluated several other products that claimed to be exclusively designed to convert PDF files to Excel spreadsheets and they all miserably failed to accurately convert the data. I was about to resign myself to the fact that there probably was no accurate solution to address the problem so I ventured onto the internet one last time to locate a program that might work and that’s when I found PDF2XL. I’m so impressed with this application that I’m tempted to brag to my competitors about it. My commendations to the developers for creating this incredibly brilliant solution that is now on my list of top 3 best software applications that I’ve used in the last 32 years!!!
Ramesh on March 4th, 2010 7:09 pm

One of the most simplest form of PDF to XL converter which ever found in the Web. This will help me to convert large data files which im getting from the back end office with most of datas pan national and may not relevent to me . This is handy tool to bring down weightage of such large data files and this converter helps to streamline my required data with ease. As a trial, when i downloaded my large mobile bill which comes in pdf form and would have thought analysing my calls and the time spent on each call. Congniview has helped me to analyse those call datas and spend time only on those productive calls. Thnaks a lot…
Hanna on March 5th, 2010 1:13 am

I have been using other converters untill I settle for the best one. I have found this one to be more flexible and friendly. I does not limit the functions i wanted to use. Unlike other softwares I tried, it allowed me to convert my scanned PDF document with out upgrading or downloading another version. Superb!

The Video tutorial was very helpful too.

I need to convert big data every month and I am very likely to buy this software.

Thanks a lot.
Susan M on March 5th, 2010 4:33 am

I purchased PDF2XL last year when we had an immediate need to extra some data from a Client’s .pdf files. I found the software through an internet search, found positive reviews, and downloaded the trial. It worked just like it said, although I had no idea it would be so fast! We upgraded immediately to PDF2XL OCR, used it to get out two big projects, and saved hours of effort. We went on to other back-to-back deadlines, and this fantastic software sort of slipped off the radar screen-sorry Cogniview – but it was our loss! I started using PDF2XL OCR again recently, and each time I use it, I am amazed again at the ease of use and the excellent results. I look like a star to the Project Managers because they hand me something that they think they’re going to get back in an hour or two, and I bring it back to them in 5 minutes or less. I almost feel like I’m holding out on the rest of my co-workers because I have the best tool at my disposal, and they didn’t even know something like this exists! I was feeling a little guilty about that and showed it to two of the guys today that have been doing manual data extractions – they were blown away. I guess I’ll probably have to do their work too, until the boss shells out for another copy (but I’m not going to feel guilty about having the best tools in the building anymore!) We are very pleased with our purchase and would recommend it to anyone that doesn’t have time to waste manually re-creating data tables from .pdf files. See- it’s 4:30 and there’s nothing left on my to-do list for the day. I might as well stroll over to the brewhouse for a cold one. Thanks, Cogniview!
Phil Siewert on March 5th, 2010 7:29 pm

All I have to say is “that made it easy”.
Nigel Brown on March 6th, 2010 4:37 am

Even in an electronic commerce world not many places will give you excel format data, but they can be talked into doing a pdf of it. PDF2XL is working well for me.
However, I couldn’t get trial version to automatic table detection of the conversion – but it will do once table is highlighted
It could be smarter in converting dot point lists into excel columns ie gathering multi-line dot points into one cell – but maybe I’ve missed a setting.
Seems better than other products around so I expect to buy it
Pablo on March 6th, 2010 3:36 pm

Due to a problem with an accounting application, I needed to convert 2 years of accounting data than were in more than 1300 pdf pages. The process has been easy an fast. Only for the time saved, the product has already payed itself.
Gale Rhoades on March 6th, 2010 9:33 pm

When I convert a .pdf it is with the goal of being able to create a new document without retyping everything. Authors of conversion software, including PDF2XL Pro, seem to believe that retaining the format and background graphics matters more than producing an editable document. In my case, I get documents of previous versions provided by the publisher for the purpose of saving typing time in the production of the new work (the author’s original files rarely contain the final edits). Hours spent undoing converted formatting and layout is, quite simply, a waste of everyone’s time and effort.

This is especially true in the matter of multi-column works where line wrapping results in hyphenated words. The conversion process inserts hard hyphens followed by spaces which must be manually edited to get the correct word forms.

And if the gutters are very narrow, words and parts of words may end up converted to the wrong paragraph!

All very frustrating, especially when time is short. And not at all what I want to PAY for….
Barry Wright on March 8th, 2010 7:28 pm

I’ve been looking for a simple easy (and accurate) program to convert the reports from our ERM system to Excel for analysis. All reports come out as PDF and there has been many hours spent retyping data into Excel. I have just downloaded the trial version and processed two easy reports and one rather difficult one. PDF2XL handled them with ease. I’m on my way to the purchase screen now. Thanks for a great product!
Kamlesh on March 9th, 2010 3:08 pm

Good thing it is very fast and can convet convert very quickly and without any long procedure ,also its interface is user friendly. also one good thing is that it idetify and activate OCR if needed. only thing want to know if i can add more coulmn borders.
Juan Guirao on March 10th, 2010 11:53 am

We were opening our first store and I had set up 15,000 products on our computer system in one week, barcodes included. I was using excel files to import batches of products. Unfortunately, many of our vendors would not send us excel files with their product info, but pdf files instead. PDF2XL allowed me to do the job quickly with the pdf files.
Rajib Das on March 10th, 2010 12:37 pm

Fantastic…!!!! Thats about it. No frills but does its job perfectly. Every feature that is needed is there. Amazing….!!!! GUYS KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK.
Brian Wallace on March 10th, 2010 6:10 pm

Our audtitors needed a number of ledger accounts in full for the audit, one account is a couple hundred pages long, with the converter, i am able to print these to pdf and convert it quickly. last year we spent weeks copying to excel and then submit, bit by bit and had developers in to ammend our software. with this cogniview product, i can get the auditors everything they need in minutes and have it in excel as they requested…. FANTASTIC product and by far the best of its type….from South Africa
Sergio Giudici on March 11th, 2010 6:44 pm

This software is really amazing!
I love the option of having the ability to make multiple tables and give them a header name.
Actualy, all the options PDF2XL provides are incredibly usefull and I’m really cosiderating purchase the product!
There is something that I would like to do with the software and I’m not sure that it come with that option, once I have all my tables created, how do I do to export them lined up on horizontal position?
I mean, table 1 on position A, table 2 on position B, etc to appear like that on my excel file.
Thank you for making this wonderful software for us!
Randy Morris on March 12th, 2010 10:02 am

I wanted to convert the 941 form to a useable calculating form. PDF2XL filled the bill. Saved me much typing and is useable right out of the box. Easy to use and converts quickly. Great product. Thanks much!
Robert Chen on March 12th, 2010 12:47 pm

I had use couples converters. I found this PDF2EXL is very flexible and friendly.

The interface is firendly & quick and easy to use & The Video tutorial was very helpful too.

1. Seems following feature not able to work
A. move the whole field by dragging it by the drag handle on the top left corner. Additionally, you can drag multiple fields together by first selecting them (Shift+Click inside the field to add it to the selection), and then keeping the Shift key pressed when dragging one of them.

B. to keep the indentation and line wrapping of the field’s contents, you can mark it as text and ensure that the appropriate options are set in the Format settings page.

2. I wish above feature is workable due some times I need to merge the field together

3. I wish is able to change the order after mark field

4. I wish is able to change the order after the table marked table 1, 2, 3

5. Other thing want to know, do you also provide an upgrading price if I want to upgrad my version to higher after I buy the version of PDS2XL.

Any way I would like to the it now & practice asap.

Thanks with B. Rgds.,
Mike Hanley on March 12th, 2010 8:31 pm

I am a forensic accountant and deal with .PDF file ALOT in my work. I recently received a 635 page, 10-column ledger in abode and was asked to schedule all of it to Excel for analysis. I Googled “convert PDF to Excel” and saw several companies offering to do the same thing. After downloading, testing and installing different packages (and not liking any of them) I downloaded PDF2XL and to my amazement and great delight it did actually what I needed. After 10 minutes of testing on the sample download I purchased the full version. It has given me my spreadsheet in literally 8 minutes, instead of the probably 40+ hours it would have taken to data enter the information. I will difinately be recommending this software to my co-workers and bosses.
Neeraj on March 13th, 2010 8:57 am

Its Great, thnx
Ramir Santos on March 13th, 2010 11:01 pm

We have a project to compare an image file (PDF) with an input worksheet file. Our current reconciliation process is very manual that compares the worksheet file with the printed copy of the image. This process is currently costing the firm 5 employees. It is not only burning the firm’s money, but also putting the company at huge risks. Other options have been explored (PDF to TXT, PDF to Database) but none have worked out to date. Upon further cost benefit analysis, we opted to explore other alternatives.

A day after googling the various available technology, I found COGNIVIEW’s PDF2XLStoOCR. It provides us a new perspective of solving our problem. I have downloaded the product and looks very very promising. I hope that the application has API’s that we can use to integrate with our existing application.
Jeff on March 14th, 2010 9:31 am

My first impression: This is exactly what I have been looking for !!

IF I see this correctly, PDF to Excel does PDF conversions to both Excel and MS Word files.
I’ve dreamed of being able to do this for years.
I’ve only used the PDF to Excel software on one document.
My very first effort was an instant sucess. I’m sold as soon as I hear a price and license terms for a private individual, I’m going to get it before somebody changes their mind!! (I do not mean me.)
Timothy Malone on March 14th, 2010 8:53 pm

I looked at several other converters and went thru testing of how they converted what the pdf files I revieve. I decided to go with Cogniview PDF2XL because it has the greatest flexablity for converting into excel and because of their support.
Luis Fonseca on March 15th, 2010 12:49 am

I have tried it only once, however and until now, its formidable.
Explanations, and usability are simple and effective. Please keep on developing such softwares in order to keep things and thoughts simple.
Thank you.
Andre Conradie on March 15th, 2010 12:17 pm

The best thing about PDF2XL is that its very
user friendly. Easy to understand and use.
I dont know of any other OCR program better than
this one.
Well Done.
Ben Langstaff on March 16th, 2010 12:54 am

This tool was being used by a couple individuals within our organization and I just ordered another 5 licenses for different users. It is great and saves a tonne of time for reports that only come in Excel. One main use is I will give it to our receivable person and this will allow for better drilling down into the details once it converts the pdf. to Excel.
bismah on March 16th, 2010 8:34 pm

I have downloaded a trial version of pdf2xl. It is amazing & it made my life easier bcoz I am student of BBA and finance is my major subject. this software helped me to enter the pdf cashflow statements of different companies into excel. which cut half of my work of entering the data one by one. it has become easy for me to do analysis of financial statements.
thanks
rk on March 18th, 2010 12:06 am

An amzing product to convert complicated pdf files in to excel. This product exceeded my expectations.
Sterling Sanders on March 18th, 2010 7:51 pm

Love the product!! Our engineering project currently has multiple pdf documents that we need to convert to Excel in order to verify information. Your product takes these pdf files and converts to Excel in a timely manner and very accurate. We will keep using your product to do our conversion process.

Thank you.
Cathy Ritter on March 18th, 2010 10:54 pm

WOW!! What a HUGE timesaver this product is!! I had to input 15 complex trial balances into Excel, and I thought … someone MUST have figured out a way to get data from a PDF into excel, so I did a search, and VOILA! Cogniview to the rescue!! The product worked flawlessly … and instead of working all night to load the data, I was able to import the data quickly, and made it home in time to have dinner with my family. THANK YOU!!! (and my family thanks you too!)
john on March 19th, 2010 4:17 pm

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Ron on March 21st, 2010 4:08 pm

Took a 4000 line participant list and turned
it into useful data… saved me a week of hard work… tnx!
Steve Jervis on March 23rd, 2010 7:52 pm

I found the product very easy to use for simple PDFs but I cannot find a way to create a layout that has varying columns. I am reading a booking form that has 2 columns at the top, threee in the middle and 2 at the bottom. I only seem able to create a single table with a fixed number of columns for a page.

I would also like to know if it is possible to run the program from a script so that the process could be automated as part of a data import function.
Larissa on March 23rd, 2010 8:53 pm

My company owns and operates Subway Restaurant’s. We would need weekly data from each of our 30 stores based on what type of sandwiches were bing ordered. Each store’s report came across as a PDF file and is roughly 7 pages long! I was always behind on my reporting (due to it taking close to an hour per store to decipher and filter thru the reports and re-enter the data in an organized excel spreadsheet). My boss had to constantly ask if the data was available yet. Unfortunately the answer was usually no! PDF2XL has saved me so much time and frustration! With one quick template and a few VLOOKUP formulas, my productivity has improved immensly due to this product! I love it!
Adrienne on March 24th, 2010 2:12 pm

I volunteer at a non-profit and needed something that could convert all of the pdfs we receive into excel worksheets. I have been looking for a long time for a product like this. It is easy to use and the customer service is great. I am looking forward to more features in the future as well that will preserve more of the text attributes during the conversions. For right now, I am just thankful I finally found something that saves me so much time!
srinivas on March 24th, 2010 6:15 pm

It is very good one but could not able to buy from my pocket.
Tara Singh on March 24th, 2010 7:32 pm

I am writing a thesis for an MSc in Engineering Management and the data for the research is only available in PDF format from the client’s CMMS.

I was faced with the daunting task of converting 25 pages of data from PDF to Excel!

That changed instantly when I found and downloaded for your free trial PDF converter! I was able to convert and sort the data in 4 hours.

Thank you very much!

Best Regards, Tara
Nick on March 24th, 2010 8:55 pm

I searched the web for a good pdf to excel conversion tool. I tried about 7 different tools before finding this one. Some of the others did an OK job, but many had problems getting the rows to match up perfectly. This tool is much more flexible and I love the fact that I can create my own columns and rows. I’m dealing with very large pdfs (some are over 2000 pages) and they are in a very awkward format with table structure crossing multiple pages, but changing every once in a while. This tool allows me to assign a table format across the entire document, or multiple tables on a per page basis. It would be REALLY nice if I had the ability to assign multiple table structures across multiple pages (instead of the current single page limitation).
Joao on March 25th, 2010 12:20 pm

As an IT manager I find this tool pretty much appropriate for any type of users. One thing though…you should not name it PDF2XL but instead PDF2Anything ’cause it really gets the work done in any type of file.
Shona Taplin on March 25th, 2010 11:13 pm

pdf2xxl made my life so much easier. I was able to quickly covert data that was only available in pdf format to excel in one easy step. Awesome!
Ansar k on March 27th, 2010 2:57 pm

This is one of the best softwares from the rest. I am thankful to your team for designing this wonderful product which is a blessing in disguise for many users worldwide.

The co. where I work has purchased more than 8 products after my recommendation.

Wishing you best of luck in many more innovations.
Kupio on March 30th, 2010 3:01 am

I was in hurry and I didn’t watch all video introduction… But it work even I didn’t take basic explanations.
It means that Your converter is aplicable for everybodies and very easy for use.
All the best.
Ella Wong on March 30th, 2010 10:34 pm

I have been looking for an OCR capability that would enable me to program the OCR to automatically copy and paste text from a PDF into an Excel file or even store in a flat file for Excel to pick up automatically. I have researched all types of software that could scan and copy and paste into another file. I found PDF2XL OCR and downloaded the trial version and I am very impressed with the capabilities of this software! I especially like the flexibility of selecting the desired text as a table and viewing it in my Excel file and creating my own columns and rows, and being able to select multiple tables across a document. It allows me to organize a PDF document to my desired format. I have shared and done a demo for my team and they are very impressed with this tool as well! I will be purchasing the full version very soon. Thank you for creating this very useful tool!
Ed Hauber on April 1st, 2010 5:20 am

Hadar,

I discovered PDF2XL by doing a typical Google search and am so glad I did. I had a critical data recovery project that could not be accomplished without capturing PDF data and converting it to Excel. Prior to finding your product, I had resigned myself that manual recreation of this data (approx. 1000 rows and 3 columns of data!) was my only option.

After finding PDF2XL, I was able to select, capture and accurately convert all of my PDF data to Excel in roughly 30 minutes (and without having read any manual or directions!). PDF2XL is a super intuitive and wonderfully powerful product. I couldn’t recommend it more highly.

Sincerely,

Ed Hauber
Barbara on April 2nd, 2010 1:40 am

Worked great! Saved me hours of work. Had a problem with 3 columns very close together that I couldn’t get separated before the conversion, but the rest of the file came across perfectly…and it was easy to split out just that 1 area once I had the whole report in Excel. Brilliant, thanks!
ASHIS on April 3rd, 2010 10:57 am

Its amazing…. But all files should be converted ignoring whoever the producer of file is because nowadays all ledgers of investments, bank statements etc. are transmitted to the accountholder in pdf format. To working on those data like finalising of balance sheet,calculation of interest etc. can be done

Regards
eil on April 4th, 2010 1:33 am

This was so simple to use, it took me only minutes to convert my year end statments which normally take me FOREVER!! Maybe I will get my taxes done on time for once!! Na
Peter Smith on April 5th, 2010 3:57 pm

It’s Easter weekend, lots to do need to work on various analyses of data which I only have in pdf format. No time to input by hand need a safe tool and need it now. Searched te internet and found PDF2XL, thought I would give it a try.

Boy oh boy, it works, took about five minutes to sus out how to copy data and then I was off. Brilliant saved me hours of time, and my reputation as a “can do” person.

Thanks, Peter
Robert Chen on April 7th, 2010 4:09 pm

The PDF2XL is great with interface of following function.
1. Split columns
2. merge columns
3. table append to another table being grouped together
4. layout save – to save layout format forms for regular paperwork to excel
5. open layout for the same format paperwork to excel

following function needed:
1. I use set field heading for the data is not able to ocr from image box
2. in conversion show field option once/every line/every page/every table
problems (based no any data inside field):
a. set once; the field heading filled will not be shown on excel sheet if there is no any data inside the field.

b. set every table the field heading filled will be shown following the right column of table

The best solution :
1. I hope the field heading filled is able to be brought/shown according to the order of field no matter there is any data included or not.
But it should not be shown on excel when the in conversion show field option set with once.
This solution will help me to auto. bring the concern data to excel for which kind data is not able to be ocr by PDF2XL for the data included by a image box.

2. I hope the OCR function is able to retrieve the digital data for internation language too.

I doubt why the PDF2XL OCR version is not able to read the data in image area. For your information, some documents is created by Microsoft Words with combind printing function. They put the digital data print into the image form from scanner.

Anyway I would like to say the PDF2XL OCR version is good enough.

For your information, I just bought the PDF2XL Enterprise version.

B. RGDS.,
hany on April 9th, 2010 7:48 pm

thankyou
Ben Jones on April 13th, 2010 4:34 pm

Hi,

Nice software. Does what is says on the tin and on the market for a reasonable price. I then persuaded my boss to buy the full version which will save company time and make work load more efficient. Cheers guys at Congiview

Ben Jones (Company Applied Superconductor Ltd UK)
Denis on April 13th, 2010 8:40 pm

GOOD IF HE HAS HELPED ME A LOT, I REALLY USE IT TO ELABORATE MY SCHEDULES
Ravi on April 14th, 2010 12:10 am

Great product
Kirti Shah on April 17th, 2010 1:09 pm

Its an useful product for day to day work. I am satisfied with it. My suggestion is that tryto imrpove to curtail the procidure for conversion
Jo Opbroek on April 18th, 2010 11:14 am

Iam Dutch, and I was during several days, trying to make a pdf file to a exel file, but it dit not work so good, i had seen my wife less this week, till see said: surch at the internet for a progam. i dit so, and look, i was reade in a moment. Thank you, i verry apreciat the software.
kind regards

Jo
M. J. Sharpe on April 26th, 2010 4:40 pm

The PDF2XL software has already saved me a lot of time and energy, for various tasks. Definitely worth getting my organisation to buy it!

I second the above mentioned wish for more complex tables (varying numbers of columns per page, grouping rows together in one cell), but I realise that that would get very complicated and would, even if such a thing were possible, probably compromise the inituitiveness of the program, which is one of its great benefits.
Inga Stephenson on April 26th, 2010 11:48 pm

Hello!
I work at the hotel. Our reservations program is able to issue the rooming lists in .rtf format (which can be printed or converted into PDF). However, sometimes meeting planners have millions of other things they need to add to this list or even just for the matter of reviewing and calculations we prefer having these lists in Excel.
Imagine….. re-typing a rooming list with 200 double rooms (equaling to 400 guests) with everyone’s room type, check-in and check-out dates, etc….
Thank you for keeping this just in my imagination since I do not have to do it! PDF to Excel enables me to convert the whole list, numbers of pages in the matter of minutes. The only time consuming process is formatting the Excel file later, adding data filters and “prettying” it up but I am sure it’s all because I just do not know how to use the converter properly. I have ony been using it just for basic converting because most of the time my clients need it not even right NOW but YESTERDAY!
Thank you again for me being able to offer better customer service to my clients.
I purchsed the program on my own since it is not that easy to prove the necessity of certain file formats to people that do not use them regularly… but it’s my money well spent!
Marie Rawnsley on April 27th, 2010 12:39 pm

Having tried several different converters – all of which failed to be able to provide all the functions i needed. I have to say PDF2XL proved exceptional.
Good points -
1. It allowed me to specify the type of column format and how to export it into excel.
2. It allowed me to split not only columns but rows as well and has a handy save layout to use again.
3. It (and believe me some of the other readers didn;t) brought the data in accurate and true.
4. The trial was for 10 pages not 3 as in most cases – this enabled a good test sample to check.
5. All the data pages can be selected independent of the header which means no wierd reults in the middle of the data. Also titles can be edited and amended.
6. And finally easy to follow instructions all the way. No guessing required!

Sorry can not really think of any negatives right now ….
Chris on April 27th, 2010 11:06 pm

Great software. Quick, easy, visual. Exactly what I was looking for.

Thanks,
Chris
Jeff on April 28th, 2010 12:02 am

We are testing the software to minimize our manipulation requirements when extracting data from excel. We have had to get really, really creative when we extract data from pdfs for the work we do. This can mean taking 8000+ page documents and putting the data in to an excel document for manipulation into a visual display of data. If your tool meets our expectations to do this with one simple extraction we will have made around $20,000 – $50,000 in labor costs, rapidly expanding our opportunities to improve our own tools. Thanks for the opportunity!
Dion on April 29th, 2010 11:47 pm

Amazing product compared with others I have tried. Simple and easy to use, the OCR facility is a massive time saver. I continually upload data and the amount of time I have saved using this product has meant it has paid for itself in 2 days. Thats an incredible return on investment.

Thanks!!
Chris on April 30th, 2010 12:28 pm

PDF2XL is invaluable for tracking my investments. I can log onto the Financial Company’s website and download the details of various portfolios, but these are all in pdf format. I wanted to track changes in the underlying investments and balked at the task of transferring all this information to Excel. PDF2XL has made it a simple job and having converted the whole file once, now I only transfer the prices and values of the underlying investments using the clipboard facility and can track what is really happening.

Well done!
Galen on April 30th, 2010 9:31 pm

I work with slot machine reports that all come in as PDF. Getting them to Excel is finally easy.

Good job!
Nick on May 3rd, 2010 8:44 am

I have just trialled and purchased Cogniview.
We have a sytems reporting tool that produces only in pdf. I need to retain the structure and this product works for me.

Thanks very much – a great help!
carlo - di padova on May 3rd, 2010 1:34 pm

… è il miglior programma che abbia usato! molto utile, veloce ed autonomo.

bravi!
Tony on May 5th, 2010 5:39 pm

You have made a great tool — very easy to use. I had a PDF report with a number of pages of tables, all the same format. I just followed the instructions and instantly had my Excel spreadsheet. Thanks very much!

If I could make one suggestion though– I would prefer not to have to go to the online help to understand some of the more advanced features. It opens a separate window and then I have to keep flipping back and forth. It’s much easier when the instructions are in the side pane on the main window.
Shyam on May 8th, 2010 12:51 pm

Thanks God this software help me a lot…. Now it seems i can go to home in time! It’s really a great Time saver!
Paneer on May 10th, 2010 2:04 pm

Sexy Software guys !!
Nicolae on May 10th, 2010 4:30 pm

I spent hours trying to find a way to import a 600+ page catalog into a database format. When I found PDF2XL, I breathed a sigh of relief.
iara on May 12th, 2010 6:55 am

mara
Fashan Amanullah on May 12th, 2010 11:10 am

This has been a great product and is been helping our Finance dept to manage their Invoices sent on PDF format to be easily convert to Excel. This saves alot of their valuable time.
Thanks,
David Moulton on May 13th, 2010 5:18 pm

A great help. Although wish it could deal with scanned-in pdfs a bit easier! Still quicker than re-typing it all.
Thanks.
Norbert on May 24th, 2010 5:43 pm

Worked first time and did exactly what it says on the tin. Nough’said, just by it if you need the product.

Norbert
Bryan on May 25th, 2010 11:15 am

We have over 50GB of scanned documents a total of over 16000 files that we use to construct maintnenance planning databases for ships. We obviously use OCR in this process but the poor quality of the orginal manuals makes this a real problem.

I have just tried to convert some sheets to Excel with PDF2XL Enterpise; sheets that defied all previous attempts and WOW it works. Ok there are still some corrections we will have to make but the vast majority of the work is done. It’s just a pity we are at the ‘mopping up’ stage of this project and not at the start.
Martha Lucía Vega on May 25th, 2010 5:27 pm

Muy buenos días, he utilizado la herramienta y me saco de un gran aprieto.
agradezco las facilidades que nos coloca la web en las manos para agilizar el trabajo
Ken Lynch on May 26th, 2010 9:13 am

Our suppliers typically send out price lists as PDF’s. We have an internal price list for our staff, made in Excel, so we can update and calculate standard markups, etc. It was very frustrating trying to “re-make” the suppliers price lists to conform to ours. Now we can download the new price PDFs, easily and quickly convert them to useful files, and incorporate them into our system.
Love this software!!!
varghese on May 29th, 2010 10:55 am

excellent stuff, keep it up
Rich Morra on May 29th, 2010 6:24 pm

Great product, the only issue I had was splitting a column of data when the data offered very little spacing between characters and the data within the columns was sometimes off set.
Hammad Hassan on May 30th, 2010 12:44 pm

I am a PhD scholar and i downloaded this software for converting companies financial statements (in PDF form) to Excel in order to analyse relationship among different financial and economic variables. No doubt it is great software and i will recommend my students at University to use it for preparing their semester assignments. One thing i would mention that some times i need to compare financial statments of several companies but this software records new table below the old table, i did not find a way to recored the new table in front of the old table. If this could happen this software would not be having any match with any other Excel converting softwares. Thank you.
Gilberto Perilo on May 31st, 2010 2:40 am

Os Contribuintes para dificultar a analise dos dados, enviam todos os arquivos em PDF. Ele deixa fazer pesquisa somente em localizar e nada mais.É preciso separar dados, relacionar uma tabela com outras e com o arquivo em Pdf é muito difícil. Fiz fárias pesquisas na Internet e encontrei esse programa que vai resolver boa parte das minhas dificuldadas na transformação dos arquivos de PDF para Excel.
Irei adquirir uma licença desse programa.
Gilberto Perilo
Mahmoud Mirzamani on June 1st, 2010 1:22 am

This is the software to use when you need to export PDF files to Excel. In particular, it makes the export of charts much easier, sine this feature is not readily available in other OCR software. It makes it easy by simply creating the chart like data and then exporting it to Excel. Besides being very user-friendly, it comes with lots of help and tutorials.
pile on June 1st, 2010 4:34 pm

jee bravoooo
just only free, please !
could you convert just only file for me !?
Prakash on June 2nd, 2010 11:00 am

it is amazing, so eazy to convert pdf to exel
GR on June 2nd, 2010 5:53 pm

I was amazed how easily the Cogniview product converted pdf to Excel. The time savings was HUGE for us as we receive a lot of bid files via pdf that need to be entered into Excel. Now the process is simple and quick.
DV on June 2nd, 2010 7:44 pm

No me funciono, no se si es porque utilice la version de prueba o que pero no me convirtio sino una parte del Documento tenia un archivo en PDF de 16 paginas y lo unico que me poaso a Excel fue la ultima Hoja( y no completa)por lo que no quedo conforme con el producto
Dee Meighan on June 2nd, 2010 8:34 pm

I really like the way this program works compared to some other PDF converting programs that I have tried. However, I am disappointed in the results from scanned documents. It goes OCR crazy! Even if the documents are fairly clean. And heaven forbid if every-other row is shaded!
Sanjith on June 3rd, 2010 11:45 am

first of all thank you for providing such a wonderful product. it was very accurate and fast. i had to convert large volume of data for an urgent work. i was bit nervous, but my heat was cooled by PDF2XL. thank you once again
Mike on June 4th, 2010 4:10 pm

This osftware did a fantastic job of converting a clean scanned spreadsheet back to excel. It was easy to set the scan area and to add in columns that it did not see. Its accuracy was excellent.
Ana on June 10th, 2010 1:20 am

Es la primera vez que lo uso, pero tiene buena pinta. Gracias
Corey on June 11th, 2010 1:09 am

I purchased the enterprise version after testing the trial. Very impressive tool to convert PDF or ERP report files to spreadsheet for our accounting department. It would be nice to be able to automate more of the layout selection by allowing to find by header even if the table is not contiguous, as in a mobile phone bill that has several groups of tables that repeat throughout the invoice.
BERNARDO on June 11th, 2010 10:36 pm

he bajado este programa, ya que me ayuda a transformar archivos que me envia las sucursales de la empresa donde trabajo, en formato PDF a excel, y son bases de datos, las cuales requiero para cambiar precios, trabajar estadisticos, etc. con la finalidad de tomar desiciones.
Jyothish on June 15th, 2010 9:30 am

I am using trial version and it works wonderful. Its very useful. Its design is very simple and easy to use.

Thanks to http://www.cogniview.com

Regards
Jyothish
Franck on June 16th, 2010 11:38 pm

I was looking for a tool to convert sets of tables in PDF files. I tried a number of tools but only PDF to Excel managed to handle empty cells, labels with white spaces. I could do it within a few minutes thanks to a very intuitive interface that gives precise control over the conversion.
I could not help congratulating Cogniview and buying the software.
Excellent job / super boulot (from Paris)
Anton on June 17th, 2010 7:08 am

It’s the best Files converting program i ever try, and surely it will be the my number 1 converting program. PDF2XL is easy to use and very handy too so don’t be hesitate to try PDF2XL ‘cos it’s the best.

thank you
Mike Butts on June 17th, 2010 8:12 pm

One employee was unreachable and had 6 very large spreadsheets from which he had created PDFs. Our client needed an update so I downloaded (and later purchased) PDF2XL. This saved hours of re-entering the data.
Crystal Adkins on June 17th, 2010 10:15 pm

Awesome software and it’s working perfect for us to combine and balance avg 80 batch pdf reports daily.
Crystal Adkins on June 17th, 2010 10:16 pm

Awesome software and it’s working perfect for us to combine and balance avg 80 batch pdf reports daily
V Bruce Evans on June 21st, 2010 11:07 pm

My immediate need was to covert 150 pages of names, addresses, phone numbers and data to excel. The raw data was in a printed form with 9 – 10 :items” per page. After a brief review, I sent a request for layout help which received a quick reply and a sample layout. Within an hour or so, using the Cogniview software, a task I had been putting off for a long while was done. Worth the price!
Diane L'Anglais on June 22nd, 2010 12:21 pm

Great product! I have checked other converters and this one does the job easily and fast. I work with many companies that needs to convert long summary reports that come out only in PDF, so over the years, I have recommended to my customers to purchase your product and many have done it. Thank you.
Shakil Qureshi on June 23rd, 2010 1:56 am

Hello,.

I recently started working for someone as a qa assistant and needed to convert a pdf to an excel document. I googled the topic and found a few apps that did this and tried one. It didn’t work properly as it had many glitches. This needed to get done so I tried another one, which was this one. It worked perfectly and the conversion process has been handled without a glitch. I would recommend this product to anyone if they want to convert pdfs to excel. It is a professional program that does the task in a very user friendly environment. Thanks for allowing me to add my input.
Nikita Ravin Tissera on June 23rd, 2010 12:36 pm

Excellent product. As a equity analyst i am used to wasting hideous amounts of time hard coding crazy amounts of data from Annual Reports. PDF2XL provided me with a simple, effective and intelligent solution and has saved so much time for me so I could use that time on the analysis rather than the grunt work. I only wish I discovered PDF2XL sooner!
Vickie on June 23rd, 2010 5:49 pm

We are resellers of office equipment and Motorola two way radios. We get all of our price sheets in PDF format. Having the pdf2xl converter works wonders for us when putting together bids for our customers. It also comes in handy when we put the specifications together for customers who want to post bid requests. This is such a wonderful tool to have especially in todays technological economy. More and more documents are being scanned into electronic format and to have this congniview PDF2XL conversion makes converting to MS format a breeze. Many hours have been saved with this wonderful tool. EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE IT ON THEIR COMPUTERS!!! THANK YOU!
Ulf Bach on June 23rd, 2010 10:44 pm

PDF2XL was very easy and intuitive to use. I selected the trial download after watching the very instructive video on how to use it. It was exactly what I was looking for to import a large PDF file into my spreadsheet. It saved hours of tedious typing.
Janet Hope on June 24th, 2010 12:07 am

I work for a school district that uses a data warehouse with many PDF reports. I downloaded the trial version and it worked just fine. I bought the product and now it says I need the upgrade….why isn’t the trial version the same as the version purchased? There weren’t 3 different trial versions. I’ve sent a email to your support….I’ll reserve my comments until I see how you deal with miss leading customers with mutiple versions of the product.
Janet Hope on June 24th, 2010 12:08 am

Oh I also purchased the CD which when placed in the drive tells me its an older version than the download so why would I want that?
Carol Skinner on June 24th, 2010 3:50 am

We recently acquired a company and have not converted them to our software so we are needing to convert many of their reports from PDF to Excel. My supervisor and peers were spending hours doing this and I was asked to find a solution. I ‘googled’ convert pdf to excel and your web page was the second on the list. I went to the website – downloaded the trial and had a file converted for my boss in about 5 minutes! A lot of time and money had been spent in the past – now we have this easy tool and bought 5 copies. Thanks so much! I feel like a rock star because I found this program – kinda nice:)
Richard Highet on June 25th, 2010 2:14 am

OmniPage can’t hold a candle to Cogniview!

I’ve been an OmniPage user for the last 3 versions and they all were only ‘adequate’ at the job of converting scanned pdf to Excel. I tried Able2extract, 123 PDF Converter, and 3 other OCR programs to see if I could find a good one instead of just an adequate one.

Obviously I’m not new to PDF OCR, yet Cogniview absolutely wowed me. The speed by which I can now do my work with far more accurate results than the other OCR programs I’ve used is a huge improvement. The difference is night and day.

Richard “Freightmeister” Highet
Econofast Shipping Systems
Stephen Ballard on June 25th, 2010 6:47 pm

I have been looking at different conversion software to help streamline our operations. Our Production Manager is retiring at the end of next month and we will not be replacing him; therefore a productivity increase is mandatory. We are currently manually inputting data from customer purchase orders to generate packing lists and invoices that are Excel based. After first trying Paperport Professional, I found your product to be far superior in converting a scanned PDF file into Excel. PDF2XL is going to save hours of input,eliminate typos and add information that we previously didn’t have in our system. I know you will continue to improve the OCR capabilities and I look forward to using your product for years to come. Thanks.
Jacop on June 25th, 2010 10:10 pm

I think PDF2XL is the best software to convert pdf document. Before I found it, I had 5 different applications to convert…
Bernardo Veloso on June 26th, 2010 12:23 am

Feel weeks ago, I needed to have some information, which was in PDF files written in Excel spreadsheets.
I tried to copy that from PDF straight to Excel and what I’ve got was an unusefull image.
Then, what I had to do was copying from PDF to Word, work on the data, “tabulating” each kind of data for every line of Word file and, then, copying it to Excel, using the tool to convert text into columns.
Do you think it was done? No, it was not completed yet. I needed to check each cell to see if a data was divided in two different cells and correct it.
I began to do that and, after two working days dedicatted to this job, after completting around 30% of the job, a colleague who needed the same data converted into Excel, sent me all the data already converted into Excel, after feel working hours.
I couldn’t beleave that, so, he explained that he found PDF2XL and made that convertion very easily. He sent to me the link for the evaluation version.
Few days later, I had another convertion to make and then, watched the instruction video and installed evaluation version in my computer.
It was amazing how fast I could get all my data converted from PDF to Excel.
Cogniview offered me a free extention of trial period, which alowed me to use it in another job two weeks later.
The evaluation version of PDF2XL was the key to convince me of the great usefulness of the software and to make me decide to purchase it.
kenttan on June 28th, 2010 6:04 am

Still in the evaluation stage. thanks
Bob on June 28th, 2010 6:54 pm

Needed to quickly convert a scanned table from pdf to Excel. This worked much better than the online tools (which failed to convert the pdf at all!). A little editing after the conversion, and I had saved myself hours of transcribing a pdf to Excel. Thanks!
Santhosh on June 29th, 2010 12:04 pm

Hi,
It was superb I did not expected like this.
it converts coolly and I wondered,it is amazing software.
thanks for creating this software.

Regards,
Santhosh
Binu Cherian on June 29th, 2010 3:50 pm

This is really great & has lot of options. I could’nt find anything as good as PDF2XL OCR in converting scanned documents in PDF.
Allan on June 30th, 2010 7:55 am

This has been the only program I have found to convert a multi-page complicated table easily. Better than Nitro and several others.
Santosh Sutar on June 30th, 2010 1:49 pm

This is really helpful, because it’s easy’ comfortable as well any one can use it…………
Gunnar Saxhaug on June 30th, 2010 4:02 pm

Interactive Norway AS is sole importer/distributor of products from SMART Technologies (www.smattech.com). Over the years we have been using a custom made database to report rebated sales to Smart. However, from now on we have to deliver this monthly report in Excel format. Which, for many reasons is an enormous task and a question of doing things twice. Since we can design the reports from our data base any way we need it, I started looking for a way to convert written data to excel format.
A few days ago I found your program, so when we write the report in adobe format it should easily be converted to Excel – and it works seemlessly!
Thanks for for saving us a lot of time and frustrations!
Marie on July 1st, 2010 3:22 pm

I’ve tested numerous programs to covert PDF to Excel but have found nothing better – this things has saved me untold hours/days manually converting docs – now a thing of the past tnanks to PDF2XL

Looking forward to the updates to see new time-savers incorporated into the program!
Zaki Aroutin on July 2nd, 2010 11:25 pm

We are using an application from a remote provider through Citrix. Such application only allows to export to PDF, but we need excel files to rearrange the data, make calculations, and so on. The PDF that we got has every page inside a border box. I think that causes that a lot of PDF to EXCEL converters does not work. I have tried several of them until I found PDF2XL. It’s the only one which successfully convert our PDF files to Excel.

Thanks a lot, PDF2XML…
Steve on July 3rd, 2010 4:57 am

Seems quite easy to use. Just in the beginning stages, but pleased so far.
Niki on July 6th, 2010 3:34 pm

This program is amazing! It has cut our work time down immensely. Big fan! Thanks…
Bill Kormoski on July 6th, 2010 7:27 pm

PDF2XL is the best tools I have ever used when converting data. We convert data from all types of systems and this is by far out best tool.
Pradeep on July 9th, 2010 4:50 pm

My team and I have to frequently convert multiple pdf files to another program and I have been searching for a way to batch convert them to excel so that the data can be imported. So far from what I’ve seen PDF2XL looks like it might save us quite a few hours. It’s a great program and I hope to get it working in such a way that I can just script the whole process.
Nirajkumar Sheth on July 9th, 2010 6:24 pm

if you want to download the best pdf to excel convertor,dont wait here it is….just close your eyz and click download!!!!!!!!!

and have the blast!!
Nelson on July 9th, 2010 7:31 pm

I have just started to use this very cool program. and I have found it to be very useful in saving me some valuable time in that I was able to convert some documents quickly from pdf to exel files – a task which may have taken me a few days to accomplish.
More TR on July 10th, 2010 1:01 pm

Hi

I’m a resellers in Turkey and have an online shopping website: http://www.more-tr.com. Some of wholesalers send me price lists as pdf. It is hard to edit if it is not excel format. This program helps me for this problem. It is very useful and easy to install. Thanks.
nicholas elliott on July 10th, 2010 4:29 pm

I needed to analyse bank statements for a client and it looked like a daunting task as this would take many hours work in retyping and the client didnt have online banking to order a .csv file. I scanned the documents in and was able to select the columns and rows I needed to convert data. it was great to be able to add sheets and exclude data I didnt require. This saved me many many hours and as a result made the job more profitable. I recently contacted support services and was surprised with a quick response to my satisfaction.
ani muhammed on July 11th, 2010 6:38 pm

its amazing I am a higher secondary school teacher and it is helpfull for me in my job.
but in one computer in the converted file the letters are shown in ?????? this font format. How can i Solve it
Vicky Bamishile on July 12th, 2010 11:23 pm

I’ve used this software to convert pdf files to excel and it works fine except the version I have has some limitations on which type of pdf files to convert to excel. For example, I can’t convert scanned pdf file to excel and I would love to do that at no additional expense to my company.

Thanks,
Amanda on July 13th, 2010 10:10 am

Unfortunately, any cell that has more than two rows of text seems to be lost in translation and would take hours to actually convert into the correct table format. May be quicker to type from scratch.
Muhammad Azam on July 13th, 2010 9:31 pm

Its really a nice and amazing software for use lot of best wishes for the team working behind it.
DB on July 14th, 2010 10:09 pm

I spent hours this morning trying ot convert a very large docuement and trying to find someoen that had soem kind of converter. Everything we tried left things garble. I found this program on the Internet and tried the trial then purchased with my own money becasue it did such a great job Took only moments to download a 688 page document and convert ot EXCEL and CSV…
Mike Hanssen on July 15th, 2010 7:44 am

Fantastic program, saved me around 8hours of work in converting a 30 page table to excel in order for me to design a new processor board. I will request the company looks into getting a few more copies, at least to save us engineers hours of pointless time.
Lawrence on July 15th, 2010 10:47 pm

it does not work. it makes a fine mess out of a simple BOA monthly account pdf statement
Ian McNutt on July 19th, 2010 7:41 pm

Overall, works great. I am having some troubles with merged cells, but a relatively small headache, everything else works great.
Owen Lennie on July 20th, 2010 9:31 am

I was surprised how easy it was to learn the basics of the programme. After a few attempts, I am now happy that I can convert a pdf of hundreds of pages to an excel database in half an hour or so.
Tracy on July 21st, 2010 3:55 pm

I tried the free trial version and found it very easy to work with. After my trial period was up I tried several different programs that were also offered for free on the internet. None of them worked as well as this one so I purchased it. It makes my job much easier.
nizam basha on July 22nd, 2010 9:16 am

Really it’s very useful software to work easily… great
Carmen on July 23rd, 2010 12:35 am

Hi, I’m Carmen and EPN work at the University of Ecuador. I decided to use version of its fishing village Sesimb convetidor a huge need to pass the Government’s financial reporting system used across the country from PDF to Excel, I was very well, your product is a success. We are analyzing the benefits of licensure depending on the price.

If I pass the data to other government institutions, sure everyone will have a similar tool.

Regards
kairali on July 23rd, 2010 3:02 pm

I was looking for such a software for long time. Recently i used another one which converts the pdf to Xl in a fast and simple way. But then i needed to find another software to merge all those separate XL sheets. But this software has both the features together. And in this only i got an option to select only those areas which i needed to convert. Good work!! But no clue about the future support. Sorry i just used it today and i need to buy it soon.
Helena Cheitanova on July 27th, 2010 12:50 am

Hi,
I’m a business intelligence developer and have to use excel very often. Today I lost the BIDS and I have to reinstall a lot of software again. I installed your product in minutes and finish the task on hand quickly.
I am very satisfied.
Deb White on July 27th, 2010 4:56 pm

This will be short and simply, just like using PDF2XL. I have saved my company over 40K dollars by using PDF2XL, we would have had to do some major software changes in order to get the reports we use turned into excel docs that we could manuever. This is the best product around, not just for myself but for my company.

Thank you so much, one very very satisified customer!!!!!

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