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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625 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!!!!!
Megan on July 30th, 2010 5:06 pm

I just downloaded a trial version and after 5 minutes of fiddling, I was able to utilize the program to save me over 15 hours of work! what a timesaver, love it!
RAMANA.K on August 2nd, 2010 9:19 pm

easy to understand.to convrt
Siva Karthik Kakaraparthi on August 3rd, 2010 5:59 pm

Easy, Quick and excellent software. One way to improve it is that to allow for merged cells in excel sheet headers. However, it complex stuff easily.
Brian on August 3rd, 2010 5:59 pm

I’m using the program fore a customer an it’s working easyer and faster than the old technic.
Ron on August 4th, 2010 9:19 pm

I am an insurance salesman and receive leads from my company. There is a lot of data on a lead sheet and most of my colleagues transfer this data to 3×5 cards. However, I designed a database to hold the data and provide many features a manual system cannot do – like clicking a button to map the lead’s address. The problem then was getting the data into the database. Hence, I downloaded PDF2XL. I now convert the data from the PDF file to an Excel file then import it into my database. I still need to tweak the PDF2XL layout a bit but when I have it perfected, I will have a 3 step, no hassle, no error process that will save hours of manual work. I love this product.
Bernie Russell on August 5th, 2010 5:11 am

I work for an investment bank in the regulatory reporting IT team. We automate the production of many reports and regulatory returns. We often receive these in .pdf format and then need to convert them to an alternative format such as .xls in order to automate their production.
The Cogniview PDF2XL converter should make this a very quick and easy process.
After using the trial version I will be making a case to buy the full version.
Natan Edelman on August 5th, 2010 4:15 pm

The product does exactly what I need it to do. The one feature I would like (and it might have it but I just havent figured it out) is to convert several pdf files at once.
Terry Graham on August 5th, 2010 8:23 pm

Hey, Hadar –
I’m currently working on a project that involves analyzing an entire library of pdf documents. I was very desperate for a way to pull tables into office apps to actually work with them. Your program is *exactly* what I was looking for. This is the most useful utility program I’ve come across in a long time, and it’s going to save me a ton of time and effort.
Job well done!
Thakur O.P.Singh on August 9th, 2010 4:09 pm

It’s very intelligent software that i have received. i need to be convert some bulky files having data & pictures in three column on each page generated by Cristal reports. from this program the work is done very quickly. but i have to write down some VB code to arrange the data in sequence after the excel file generated as its generate same three column in excel file. I require the data into one column in serial.

I wish to Success more in this field.
RICARDO on August 11th, 2010 12:42 am

GRACIAS, encontre lo que NECESITABA, SU APORTE LOS ENGRANDECE, YA QUE CON SU FILANTROPIA HACEN MAS FACIL LAS COSAS A SU PROJIMO.
Scott on August 11th, 2010 7:50 am

I have been using PDF2XL for a couple of years now and I am very pleased with it’s performance on converting pdf to excel. No mistakes when you set the conversion type per column. PDF2XL has saved me hours and hours of work, couldn’t be happier.
Recently had a supplier start sending reports in scanned pdf so looking forward to being able to convert them with newly purchased PDF2XL Enterprise and as a bonus will be able to convert email text to pdf. woohoo!
PDF2XL – ROCKS
Mego on August 11th, 2010 10:28 pm

Thank you for providing a really helpful and customised tool.

I was working on about 100 pdf where I have to extract lists which has several columns. This tool helped me a lot as I saved so much of manual work that would be copy pasting line by line or page by page. It looks easy but doing it for so many pdf is a pain.
I enjoyed selecting the tables in pdf through this tool and i had my converted excel files done perfectly!

Thank you!
Mego on August 11th, 2010 10:30 pm

I forgot to add my question.

Is there a way to select different tables on multiple pages with different column widths ?
Gail Jackson on August 13th, 2010 9:30 pm

My boss is on vacation this week so I took the time to find a software that would allow me to created an Excel file from a PDF. I have been entering data spreadsheets for him that are so huge I thought for sure I would lose the use of my right arm! I’ve only had the trial version two days and the word has gotten out to the office. People are coming to me with requests of all kinds for this type of software to help them. I can’t wait for my boss to get back so we can purchase the Full Version! THANK YOU FOR SAVING MY ARM!
mbconsulting on August 13th, 2010 10:15 pm

Dear CogniView: Love your product!

I have a client that required conversion of some 11″x17″ spreadsheets that were scanned in PDF format. Your PDF2XL OCR worked great. I would suggest one feature to add…some documents get scanned at a less than perfect angle and when you try and pull out certain columns they are overlapping the other columns. Can you add a feature to rotate the scan a little? That would enhance your tools that allows column by column extraction.
venkat on August 14th, 2010 1:33 pm

working well pdf converter
Aguinaldo on August 15th, 2010 3:35 pm

PDF2XL está funcionando bem para mim.
No entanto, eu não conseguia versão de teste para a detecção automática da tabela de conversão – mas ele vai fazer depois de tabela é destaque
Poderia ser mais espertos na conversão de pontos em listas ponto excel colunas ou seja, coleta de multi-linha dot pontos em uma única célula.
Yusuf on August 17th, 2010 4:32 am

It’s amazing tool. Iam auditor i Government. I am in several days confused cause got data from client for convert pdf data to excel. Surfing in the nets for trying some tools ad the end….my choice tool is PDF2XL. It’s really great, very very simple, easiest and…the best tool.
Thank’s a lot.
Yusuf on August 17th, 2010 4:35 am

It’s amazing tool. I am auditor in Government. I am in several days confused cause got data from client for convert pdf data to excel. Surfing in the nets for trying some tools nothing for have been satisfying me and the end….my choice tool is PDF2XL. It’s really great, very very simple, easiest and…..the best tool!
Thank’s a lot.
Alan on August 17th, 2010 10:03 pm

I have a number of .pdf files with information about all the hospitals in New York State–finances, payers, free care, and the like. Some are directly converted .pdf files and some are scanned.

Your helpful software is allowing me to convert these files to Excel, which makes it possible to analyze them.
Chandra Sekhar on August 19th, 2010 3:44 pm

The product is extremely good in converting image into excel files. Really saves lot of time.

Very much helpful.

Thanks & regards
Jim Rinaldi on August 19th, 2010 10:41 pm

I’m building an application to analize a large quantity of data from a mainframe which is provided in PDF form. I tried unsuccessfully to get the administrator to give me a data dump from which I can design my own database. Tried several converters but none of them could get the columns to display correctly. PDF2XL does the job accurately, quickly, and easily. It is well worth the purchase price and I have since upgraded to the Enterprise version.

As far as I’m concerned this is the best software in this niche market, and among the best-written software of any kind. Well done!
rengab on August 20th, 2010 7:27 am

it does not detect the columns correctly

i just edited it in excel

but i was able to convert

thanks
Eduardo Santos on August 20th, 2010 6:30 pm

I have been using the PDF2XL for while then I ugraded to PDF2XL OCR capturing data from pdf attachents from our customers to increase the character recognition process but still there are characters that the engine was not able to recognize. I read something about the PDF2xl Enterprise and immediately upgraded my version. I can say that this is the best product, although cheap but powerful software I have used to capture data without any exception so far no matter what type of documents will be converted to excel. The OCR engine on this software was tremendously improved. I strongly recommended to others to get a copy and use this software to eliminate the manual process of capturing data to excel.
Arlette Theillou on August 20th, 2010 6:59 pm

Good product
I use large PDF files to process my billing reports and this is a big help
Easy and fast
Thanks
Punit Sharma on August 23rd, 2010 7:27 pm

Hi,

I am using this tool to convert bulk financial data from annual reports to excel format.
Some of the annual reports are classifies as protected and in that case the tool does not convert them into excel. I beleive it is not upto the tool to override the author’s privacy rules.
However it a very helpful tool.

Thanks.
Vikash on August 25th, 2010 11:09 am

MAny time i want conert PDF to excel .with this tool really surprised thank for help and creating the tool
Selma on August 25th, 2010 11:16 pm

I am truly amazed at how quickly my PDF file converted directly into Excel. I admit that I barely scanned the instructions and was able to convert my file in minutes. I found this program after searching the Internet and using a website that claimed to convert files. Well, I uploaded my file and waited for them to return the Excel version, but I received an email stating they were unable to do so. After finding this software, I decided to use the trial version and I am extremely impressed!
Michael on August 26th, 2010 12:20 am

After trying two other PDF converters, I have found PDF2Excel to be superior. In my department, we update many files from many sources of which the source data is almost always a PDF. When the full version is approved by my department, I am confident that our updating processes will be much faster and more efficient. I am very pleased to have stumbled onto PDF2Excel. Good Job!
Tim on August 26th, 2010 6:27 pm

Production is paid at a set level in my company. If you spend 10 hours doing actual analysis to assist a client that’s a good thing…if you spend 10 hours just to get data input, that’s not so much a good thing. This product will dramatically improve time spent on productive work. Literally time is money, and time well spent is creates production not just busyness.
MELCON on August 27th, 2010 8:12 am

It’s a pretty good but little tuff soft.
Gail Jackson on August 27th, 2010 6:55 pm

I just purchased the PDF2XL Enterprise version and am just starting to learn it. I am hoping it will convert scanned images such as power point slides as well as the trial version worked on converting PDF data tables to Excel. So far, this product is fantastic. In two days time, I have converted 12 spreadsheets that had a total of 15 colums and 250 rows. That saved my company a bundle of money. It used to take me two days to retype each spreadsheet, so instead of needing 24 days to produce 12 spreadsheets, it took me 2. Thank you for saving me!
Judy on August 27th, 2010 8:37 pm

I work for a large organization – approximately 17,000 employees. I was asked to convert a pdf file to excel so I did a quick google and arrived on your site – downloaded the 7 day trial and I am TOTALLY AMAZED!!! LOVE IT!!! if my boss will not pay I will pay out of my own pocket to have such a valuable tool at my fingertips.
Patrick on August 27th, 2010 11:12 pm

I had a pdf of a bill of material with 119 items. I tried to cut & paste out of adobe acrobat but all the columns got lost. A colleague started to “brute force” through it but I found the free trial of PDF2XL. Once I figured out how to split, merge, and move columns, it was a snap. It was a bit difficult to do multiple pages. I ended up doing it in several steps instead of figuring out how to best do multiple pages at once. Otherwise, great product. If I find myself needing to do this sort of work all the time, I’ll definitely spend the $125!
A KESHAVA on August 30th, 2010 4:50 pm

I have gone through this display we require PDF to Excel/Word converter we are in India and in Bangalore we tried to purchase it from the dealers but the same was not available kindly we need the converter which can convert PDF to Excel/Word including similies characters and images also kindly advise us that this product is helpful for us revert back to us by return mail

Regards
keshava
Charles Patridge on September 2nd, 2010 2:35 pm

We have a 5,000 plus page PDF file with over 200 pages of table data that we needed to convert to text and/or excel.

I had tried 2 other brand software packages, neither of which could do the conversion for a variety of reasons.

With PDF2XL, I was able to convert 10 pages of these tables (trial version only allowed 10 pages) within 10 minutes of using some help and it quickly converted these pages to within 98% of what we needed. The other 2% is something we can deal with easily enough with our other software (SAS) to split a column into 2 pieces that was not well defined within the actual PDF file, so I can not necessarily hold PDF2XL inadequate to properly split this particular column.

This will save us hundreds of hours and ensure 100% consistency for very high quality information that we need for our predictive modeling activities.

I will suggest this is the package we should buy as it was very intuitive, easy to use, and it worked!

This undoubtly will save a number of our staff from having to do this manually which will be a God send to these people.

And I really appreciate its trial version to select the specific pages I needed to test my evaluation on.

Regard
Charles Patridge
Sr. Consultant
Chris Sullivan on September 2nd, 2010 7:37 pm

I downloaded this demo product to convert over some old and barely legible documents scanned in to pdf format to excel for organizational purposes.
What this software did in a few minutes would have taken me many painful hours and/or days to tediously retype all of the information from pdf to excel.
This demo is quite a product and I will be truly sad when my demo runs up!

Thanks for the amazing help!

- Chris

PSU Student
Vania Cley Sousa Prado on September 6th, 2010 3:43 pm

Eu amei esse programa,pois me salvou de perder uma licitação, já que não dava mais tempo de digitar tudo… pq tinha perdido o arquivo, um amigo me indicou e baixei a versão de teste. Ufa! Foi uma grande vitoria!! Obrigado!!
Robert on September 7th, 2010 2:38 am

Hola, este software me parece espectacular, he probado muchos programas para extrar a excel desde PDF y hasta ahora me parece el mejor de todos ! . Muchas gracias.
Charles Patridge on September 7th, 2010 4:58 pm

We have a 5,000 plus page PDF file with over 200 pages of table data that we needed to convert to text and/or excel.

I had tried 2 other brand software packages, neither of which could do the conversion for a variety of reasons.

With PDF2XL, I was able to convert 10 pages of these tables (trial version only allowed 10 pages) within 10 minutes of using some help and it quickly converted these pages to within 98% of what we needed. The other 2% is something we can deal with easily enough with our other software (SAS) to split a column into 2 pieces that was not well defined within the actual PDF file, so I can not necessarily hold PDF2XL inadequate to properly split this particular column.

This will save us hundreds of hours and ensure 100% consistency for very high quality information that we need for our predictive modeling activities.

I will suggest this is the package we should buy as it was very intuitive, easy to use, and it worked!

This undoubtly will save a number of our staff from having to do this manually which will be a God send to these people.

And I really appreciate its trial version to select the specific pages I needed to test my evaluation on.

We have decided to buy a 5 license copy of the full PDF2XL Enterprise version.

Regard
Charles Patridge
Sr. Consultant
Jose on September 8th, 2010 8:52 am

Good thing is I can choose lay-out of spreadsheet.
Bad thing is I can´t, or I haven´t yet find how can I process large file in several spreadsheet on same book.
Regards
José Martín Peña Torres
Robert Rafanelli on September 8th, 2010 6:22 pm

I just downloaded the program, and it worked perfectly. I was handed a huge stack of excel documents that needed to be re-typed into the computer. Knowing this would take me several days to accomplish, I went online and searched for an easier way…your program did the trick. The entire process took me minutes. You have saved me an enormous amount of time, and I cannot thank you enough!
Scott LaNeve on September 9th, 2010 11:28 pm

I cannot beleive how much time I will save. It is amazing. I wish I had this product 10 years ago.
Hemant Mudgil on September 10th, 2010 6:25 am

Hi my self Hemant. the lots of file in my office is in pdf mode so i want to convert in excel so that i would purchase this software.
hg on September 10th, 2010 7:22 am

LOVE IT.
this is fantastic software.
thanks
Joao Costa on September 10th, 2010 10:20 pm

I know products that convert PDF to Excel, but no so good and practical as the PDF2XL.
I am a consultant and a contract was pending only the conversion of a reasonable volume of PDF files to a known baseline. When I converted to Excel PDF2XL through the problem was solved.
Paul Lawton on September 12th, 2010 6:54 pm

Hi. I am a Music Itinerant teacher for the Catholic School Board in Hamilton. I have over 50 classes for which I need to assign marks and grades. That is a whole lot of typing. I have scanned the class lists, kindly supplied to me by the School secretaries and have begun making up the mark sheets in Microsoft Excel using Cogniview. The sample software for trial worked wonderfully. I anticipate great success. Thank-you in advance. Paul Lawton
Felipe Fernández Sanz on September 14th, 2010 3:29 pm

It’s fantastic. But, Glory is only for those who work it. We need more functions and options.

Thank you for your product from Spain.
Anthony Major on September 14th, 2010 5:41 pm

Using just the trial version in 10 minutes time, I was able to convert 4 blueprint pages worth of door and window schedules into mistake-free, sortable Excel files. This would have taken 2 of my estimators a full day to manually enter. This was a very easy program to learn and use. I will be purchasing soon.
Chris on September 15th, 2010 4:58 am

Our business requires us to process vendor price lists into a standardised database. In the past we have spent hours and hours re-keying data uneccessarily when information could only be provided in pdf. We went to the web looking for a solution and tried various programs. PDF2Excel however came up trumps, none of the others gave the flexibility and ease of use. We have purchased PDF2Excel OCR and would highly recommend this solution.
Dilan Agalawatta on September 15th, 2010 6:44 am

Excellent Product and support, made my life much easier.
Craig on September 15th, 2010 10:54 pm

Trying out trial on scanned pdf’s. Works fairly well have only tried it on a few. Will try a few more and see if we are willing to purchase.
Mark on September 16th, 2010 2:07 am

This product saved our company 2 weeks worth of data entry each month. A must have!
Denise on September 16th, 2010 10:58 pm

We were downloading an excel file from the local police department website of outstanding warrants and had created a program to compare to our campus population. Then the police dept changed the way they were delivering the file to be only in pdf. Had a great tool and then we couldn’t use it.

So I tried your evaluation version to see if we could get the data from pdf back to excel. It worked good, except the addresses are merging in one cell and we need to separate them for the address match in the other program, and the excel files we were getting had the columns in different order, but I think the developers can change our program to deal with that.
Paul Johnson on September 17th, 2010 6:34 am

There are many programs on the market that do PDF to office conversions. Many of these programs also try to replicate all features of the Adobe Acrobat program. This program focuses on doing one thing (exceedingly well). If you need to port data to Excel, none of the programs I’ve tried come close to this application. The built in tool that allows you to define data columns is fantastic. This feature, along with the real-time output matrix makes this program second to none for Excel data extraction. If your source PDF file was generated directly from another application, as opposed to being scanned…you will end up with an almost perfect conversion/extraction. No, I’m not being paid for this comment…The free download of the trial verion and 5 minutes of testing will make you a convert.
Angela on September 18th, 2010 8:17 pm

I think my entire neighborhood could hear me “WHOOOO HOOOOO”. This software saved me hundreds of hours!! I have clients that come to me with months, if not years worth of data that needs to be entered!
Thank you so much!!!
Dragan on September 20th, 2010 8:54 pm

It is really a very helpful tool which can save an hours of boring typing already exiting text and tables, leaving me to use all of this time for other creative work. Using of this tool is so easy. Several minutes video tutorial makes everything even easier. Best regards!
Ric Lamoureux on September 22nd, 2010 3:26 am

PDF2XL is the only software that will allow us to accurately convert the medical records PDF files into Excel files, for our medical auditing business. Without this software, we would be forced to manually tranlate the PDF files, costing us from 2-6 hours per file. The cost saving from using this software are very material to our bottom line. In fact, PDF2XL paid for itself on the first file used. Great program!!
Adam Wong on September 22nd, 2010 4:04 pm

I am a trainer in financial and risk matters. Very often I have to analyse financial statements and I had to spend hours keying in the data into excel. With this great tool, I can quickly convert the published financial statements into excel for editing and analysis.

I find this to be a great productivity tools and have recommended it to several of my friends.

An area of improvementwould be to convert the blank spaces to “0″ instead of filling in a “-”.

I sepecially like the merge and split column function.
joe on September 23rd, 2010 8:17 am

i have a work load of tabular datas for from my ship’s manual and it’s really time consuming to enter them one by one.i’m not finish yet but it’s really helping.thank you for such a wonderful conversion software.i’m not an IT graduate but i know that you’ve really exert efforts to make your software very useful.
Kathy Theiling on September 23rd, 2010 11:33 pm

We are always looking for creative ways to streamline our process. One of the roadblocks has always been PDF files. This program is by far the best one yet for conversion from PDF to a more user friendly format. We have already created a number of new best practices specifically around this software. Thanks for a great product!
Greg Hermanowycz on September 24th, 2010 5:44 pm

Got a referral from a colleague, tried the trial and bought a license. Why? It will save my team time and expand my teams’ value add to internal and external clients. Thanks!
Umang Shah on September 25th, 2010 2:22 am

I just used your PDF2XL trial version and I got shocked when result came up. It was so perfect, unbelievable. Before this software, I used Nuance PDF Converter 7 but it gave me a worst output so I thought that this software will also going to be the same but I was wrong. It was amazing. Really. Now I will try to buy full version
Don on September 25th, 2010 7:39 pm

We help organizations convert accounting systems and help them integrate ADP HRB with Deltek GCS Premier among other things. I found this product online after spending hours trying to reformat a PDF report from ADP Preview (the only way it is offered) into an Excel spreadsheet so that it could be then transferred to Access. I downloaded the demo and highlighted the table and in an instant it did what took me hours to do! I was very impressed and have bought the enterprise version and unlimited upgrades as I will be using this product almost daily! My thanks to the developers!
AM on September 27th, 2010 2:44 pm

I served my purpose well and I found it veyr easy to use. You have to be careful when converting several pages at once because some data tends to get lost. So you need to check what was converted and then convert the missing data. A bit of a pain but still much less laborious than keying in the data manually!
alberto on September 27th, 2010 8:55 pm

a useful program to change tables in pdf format to use and intuitive xls.
Useful, saves many hours of hard work, congratulations to the authors.
Ury on September 28th, 2010 12:58 pm

I was long looking for a tool to help us transform the pdf tables to csv -since our vendors documentation is pdf containing large size tables and we need to do some coding involving the variables in the tables -and every mistake is painfull . Your tool spared me a lot of time -and efort.Thank you
Carlotto on September 28th, 2010 3:23 pm

very good!!
Eric on September 28th, 2010 5:12 pm

Amazing Tool! That’s my conclusion after using PDF2XL to convert several downloaded PDF files to useable/searchable Excel files. As an analyst in my organization I regularly gather competitive data from the internet, which is most commonly published in .pdf format. Myself or other employees normally spend hours trying to properly copy/type/organize and otherwise convert the data into a useable format (most often Excel). I was able to complete the same painstaking conversion task for several files in less than 10 minutes, and the results were complete and accurate. On top of that, PDF2XL is simple to use, I was able to began converting my files almost immediately. This is a homerun product that I have already recommended to other colleagues.
Elliot on September 29th, 2010 3:47 am

I thought for sure — with all the fantastic reviews I read that this would be the product for me.

I am running Windows 7 Pro 64 bit and office 2010. I was trying to convert bank reports received in PDF to XL in order to automate the reconciliation process.

No matter what pdf file I open — I can see the data in the the Conversion Preview area, however ALL of the pages in the Document View are blank. This makes it very difficult (actually impossible) to adjust the table layout.

I tried re-saving the files in PDF/A format – and that did not help. I tried converting to text – and printing to pdf – and that too did not work. The pages in the document view are always blank.

Maybe I will try it again when a new version is out. If it had worked the way it was supposed to – it would have been a huge time saver.
duane on September 29th, 2010 6:46 am

Great software!! converted my pdf table to excel seamlessly. Thanks!
JP on September 29th, 2010 11:18 pm

The software worked better than anticipated!
Joe on September 30th, 2010 3:40 am

Greetings, I am a service technician at an areospace company and one of my duties is to set up spare parts lists for each machine in the plant. All of the list from manufacturers are PDF and I usually only need part of the list. before iusing this soft ware I spent hours Retyping, I have no trouble with this conversion system and now the lists take only a few minutes.
If I could improve anything it would be the ability to read Scanned pdfs better as I usually need to manually adjust ALL the fields even after setting one up as a form. each of the scanned pages is different for some reason. Other than that I am a happy camper.
Good job great product thanks for the lack of headaches.
Cheers, Joe
Suzie Dupke on September 30th, 2010 8:02 pm

After downloading various trial versions of different pdf to Excel converters from a scanned pdf and not getting the results I wanted – I came across PDF2XL OCR…. Outstanding work!!!
Jack on October 1st, 2010 1:40 am

I have a consulting business that among other things reviews telecom bills for large organizations. These bills are frustrating in that they generally come in PDF format and are difficult to parse. I have not had much luck with other programs as one of their failures is to handle tables on multiple PDF pages.

Well, PDF2XL handled this with style and simplicity, and I love its ability to adjust columns. Its a great product worthy of a few bucks to purchase.
Joe Schiff on October 1st, 2010 11:48 pm

Dear Hadar
The conversion of my PDF document by your PDF2XL was done with ease and without safistication. I highly recommend it to professionals and non-professional alike
yyazshoaibfa on October 3rd, 2010 9:56 pm

excellant softwart
Eric Eyler on October 4th, 2010 5:55 pm

Just received the purchased software. PDF2Excel makes my job of compiling info from many pdf docs into a single issue tracking spreadsheet much easier.
Michelle F on October 4th, 2010 11:07 pm

PDF2XL fills a void in the modern office that even the leading PDF software companies have yet to address — the conversion of data from PDF to Excel sheets. It’s saved me an incalculable amount of time, energy, and money by simplifying a long, mundane process of endless re-typing. A task that would have taken me 5+ hours before can now be done in just 10 minutes, leaving me with more time to do other things. I will be recommending this product to all of my colleagues and friends. Thank you, PDF2XL!
Fred Toon on October 5th, 2010 12:36 am

My company purchased PDF2XL with the intent of ‘scraping’ data from publicly available documents. Since the format of the documents varies greatly by jurisdiction, I have to create a new layout for each one. After spending less than one day with PDF2XL Enterprise, I can specify the ayouts I need, even for some complicated reports.
RAGHAV on October 6th, 2010 9:16 am

Superb Software…
SAURABH on October 11th, 2010 11:54 am

The tool is really nice. Helping me a lot.
sharmila on October 11th, 2010 6:53 pm

Wow! Its one word I would like to describe this software!!!!
Ria on October 12th, 2010 7:44 am

having read the other comments it doesn’t sound like the trial i was using. the trial version did not capture all the data across 4 or 5 pages. Not sure if this is intended in the trial version… so I obviously have not been able to evaluate properly.
Ria
cesar gabriel on October 13th, 2010 7:01 am

es un programa muy bueno y muy útil espero que a mus mas personas le sirva
cesar gabriel on October 13th, 2010 7:05 am

exelente
aulets on October 13th, 2010 7:07 am

es un gran instrumento gracias
Lesley on October 13th, 2010 7:17 am

Our old-school system generates a preview of our company price list for printing purposes but is unable to save or export the list to recognizable file types. I was happy to find a pdf exporter (similar to Mac’s print to PDF) so I could now email our price list to clients in PDF format. But my next problem was comparing 50 pages worth of prices against competitor’s prices. I was ready with my excel formulas — if only I had our price list in excel format! Typing each price into excel with over 2500 SKUs could be hell and a waste of time so I googled and found Cogniview. The trial version impressed me — if only I could export ALL the pages instead of 10. My boss was impressed at the sample price comparison chart I did vs competitor using the few pages I got to export to excel using Cogniview’s trial version. I told him I could do it much faster and update the price list in excel more regularly if I had the full version. He saw how it made us more competitive to be able to do intensive analyses via excel so he finally approved the purchase of Cogniview’s full version. Cogniview has now become a regular work tool! Thank you for creating such a powerful software.
aulets on October 13th, 2010 7:26 am

muy bueno les agradezco
aulets on October 13th, 2010 7:30 am

no puedo que pasa
aulets on October 13th, 2010 7:33 am

no he podido realizar el cambio
kris on October 13th, 2010 7:34 am

nose por que no me deja terminar la oeracion
N Krishna Kumar on October 14th, 2010 11:53 am

Wow!!! that was my first comment on seeing the output. Amazing to see the PDF format send by client into the excel format. As a project engineer it is neccessary to monitor the variations & reply/record according. This software me lot of time & was relaxed in replying to their document by putting my variation/comments side by side.

Thanks for making my work lite & quick.

Thanks & Regards,

N.Krishna Kumar
Syahrir Mohd Zeni on October 14th, 2010 12:37 pm

If only other free PDF-to-Excel converter are as good as this…
Harold D. Berger on October 15th, 2010 9:56 pm

A few years ago we purchased a PDF converter program
that was basically unusable. The output required so much time to correct that it was easier to just retype the data into excel.

On the first try I successfully converted a sizeable PDF file into an excel file that was virtually error free. I was amazed given my past experiences. I now use it on a regular basis and recommend it to anyone needing to convert PDF files to excel.

Harold D. Berger
binkolhu on October 16th, 2010 3:10 pm

to convert data from PDF to Excel sheets. It’s saved me an incalculable amount of time, I will be recommending this product to all of my friends. Thank you, PDF2XL!
Alexis Porras on October 19th, 2010 12:12 am

Not only does the PDF conversion to excel work (on a table across multiple pages, no less), this program was incredibly easy to use. I’m an expert user, so I really appreciated the multiple levels of help – from videos (no thanks to a help file entry that exactly answered my question. 1600 rows of data extracted from 50 pages of PDF file in under 15 mins from when I first found their website… solid install, fantastic user interface.
S.Balaji on October 19th, 2010 1:23 pm

Hadar,
I found PDF2XL by doing a typical Google search . I had a important data collecting project that could not be accomplished without capturing PDF data and converting it to Excel. This is really amazing, 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 initiative and wonderfully powerful product.I could recommend this product to many peoples like me to get out of the trouble of converting PDF to excelit more highly.
Sincerely,
S.Balaji on October 19th, 2010 1:23 pm

Hadar,
I found PDF2XL by doing a typical Google search . I had a important data collecting project that could not be accomplished without capturing PDF data and converting it to Excel. This is really amazing, 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 initiative and wonderfully powerful product.I could recommend this product to many peoples like me to get out of the trouble of converting PDF to excel.
Sincerely,
Balaji
Paul Crawford on October 19th, 2010 9:07 pm

I learned of PFD2XL at a training. This product will allow us to convert static reports to a dynamic tracking toll. Thanks. This product has great value.
Paul Hanrahan on October 20th, 2010 6:57 pm

I am a Metrology Analyst for an Aerospace company and I work with lots of data everyday. I tried three different software products but yours is the best. I can take sheets of scanned numbers and quickly convert them to Excel. This has improved my effienciency tremendously. Also, your tech help has been friendly in trying to custom fit the software for my specific needs.
I just wish I had discovered your product before this!
MJ on October 21st, 2010 9:45 am

I just tried PDF2XLS converter for my company and it works fine. We have a warehousing program which could just create pdf reports. To work with those files we needed to convert them. Without having a clue how to do that I found PDF2XLS and I will buy the enterprise version for sure!
blitzhead on October 21st, 2010 10:40 am

its good to have this kind of program,now its easy for me to covert PDF file to Excel file with no much time needed..thanks! keep up to good work..
John Redd on October 21st, 2010 7:33 pm

This is an exceptional value. We just converted a 38 page listing of transactions for a client in a matter of minutes. Did have some clean up to do on data, but estimated savings from re-entering data would be 5 times the cost of program. Getting ready to work on some 100+ page reports. This is by far one of the easiest products of its kind to work with.

thanks,
Mark on October 22nd, 2010 8:11 pm

PDF2XL Enterprise allowed us to trim a task that took 15 days each month to just 15 minutes. We no longer have to pour over hundreds of pdf pages. We simply open the document, apply our layout, and click convert. Ouila! We can sort search and analyze our data with ease.
Alastair on October 23rd, 2010 3:17 am

Needed to transfer a lot of bank statments to excel. i was using another free program from the net, but it required a lots of reformating once the data was transfered. Downloaded PDF2XL and it transfered perfectly, most of the time and when it din’t it was easy to merge/split columns to what I required. Easy to use with simple instructions.
Simon on October 27th, 2010 4:45 pm

This product does exactly what it says on the tin. It’s a real bonus not to have to enter the .pdf into excel the hard way!
Glenn Hall on October 28th, 2010 4:16 am

I work with engineering drawings that some times consist of a large bill of materials, these drawings are either saved as a PDF from the drawing program (like autocad) or scanned into a pdf from a paper blue print, I purchase the parts from the aforementioned bill of material, I always create an Excel spread sheet from the bill of material so that I can edit and add information as I need. I downloaded PDF2XL to my home computer to see if the program works as promised, and I am very impressed, I will be talking to my leaders about trying this in our office environment
Nicolaas vd Wath on October 28th, 2010 4:51 pm

So far this one convert the best from both pdf and scanned. Just a pity I have to do it page by page when the table differ on each page. I have around 5000 pages to convert. Do you perhaps have an add-in that can automate the table selection on each page?
Thanks
Nicolaas
manel on October 28th, 2010 6:31 pm

It’s a really good program. Easy, fast and reliable
Angelique on October 29th, 2010 11:25 am

Dear Hadar,
I’ve been using the PDF2XL for more then 2 years already and I love the product. Recently I’ve purchased the upgrade to PDF2XL OCR for the scannend documents. With that I also bought it for my co-workers as we are saving over 10 hours per week using the programm. So thanks a lot for making this happen!!!
All the best and keep up the good work. Angelique
Michel on October 29th, 2010 10:53 pm

Hello everyone,
The best thing about Cogniview PDF2XL is the Preview part and the table selection because it shows you instantly the output data without having to wait until the excel file and then compare with the original PDF file. Because I handle a lot of tables with huge amount of data this feature is really convenient and I have compared quite a lot of other software being this one the one I chose to buy full version. The trial period helped me a lot to make a decision. The only bad thing was the trial period duration since I would have preferred 30 days.
Thank you.
Michel
Owen on November 1st, 2010 12:26 am

This is a fantastic product (PDF2XL) and has saved me considerable time when running 200+ page reports from our antiquated financial systems (which only output to PDF!!).

I am still evaluating and so far, the ability to manually “draw” columns and format accordingly is very flexible for those clunky PDF reports that don’t quite line up.

After evaluation, I will definitely be requesting license purchases via our finance manager.

Thanks and keep up the great work!
Mike Mir on November 1st, 2010 3:28 am

I liked the software, even though I could not really make it work for my needs. When I emailed the customer service for a refund, they gave me a run-around. I could see from my bank’s website that they had not refunded my money. Finally after several days, I disputed the charges from my credit card company and got my money back. I doubt their customer service is honest even with their return policy.
Raj Govan on November 1st, 2010 8:41 am

This software is greate, easy to use had a PDF doc 18pages long with so much details, converted 100% within 1min.recommend to anyone thats in finanace or systems anaysis.
hadar on November 1st, 2010 1:00 pm

Hi Mike,
I’m sorry you feel that way.

Our records shows that a full refund was issued on July 25th, if you did not get your money back I will appreciate if you could send us a record of your credit card charge so we can check it directly with the credit card company and make sure that they will credit your account.

I can assure you that misleading our customers is not our intention and our refund policy is valid and true policy. We seldom get complaints about it. We are certainly not exempt from making errors and we will do our best to correct them and provide our customers the best possible service.

I hope you will change your mind about Cogniview and its employees.

Regards,
Ellen S. on November 2nd, 2010 7:09 pm

I purchased PDF2XL OCR yesterday after trying the basic program for a few days. After months of struggling with a free online site that converts PDFs to TXT to Excel via wizard, I found this Cogniview program to be absolutely wonderful. I no longer have issues of column alignment and formatting! Thanks to this program, I no longer dread the arrival of monthly commission statements that have to be coded and calculated. This product came recommended by two sources, and now I can see why. Thank you
Stella Mongey on November 3rd, 2010 11:40 am

we searched the net for a PDF to excel converter. We found that Cogniview was very competitive with price and recognised tables in PDF far better than many of the competitors.
John F on November 5th, 2010 3:09 am

I was recently handed a 220 page PDF document full of names and address of contacts which need to be imported into a client’s database. Well having already written an Excel parser, I thought how do I get the PDF into Excel? Then I found PDF2XL. Wow. It converted all 220 pages into 5500+ rows in a matter of seconds. Those rows have now been happily parsed and inserted. This has saved A LOT of time, as I would have had to have written a PDF interpreter for that document if I had not found this conversion software. Nice one.
Tanja on November 8th, 2010 5:22 pm

Almost perfect, if it could get automatic read on converting the whole file as per formatting of one page it would be all one might need,
converting 10 pages at the time is good if the file is not as big as some users might have.
Eric M Lemnitzer on November 8th, 2010 8:32 pm

As more and more Agencies are sending out Construction Plans via downloads they are saving time and cost of printing up the plans to pass out. So now we need to be able to extract the parts of the Specifications that we need to be able to compile a Quote to submit. Now PDF2XL OCR is the product that does all the work for me. No longer do I have to type in the line items for bidding into an excel sheet. I save time and now PDF2XL does all the work! Now I focus on bidding and not typing!
BIPLAB` on November 9th, 2010 11:13 am

ts 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
Emrah BAYAM on November 9th, 2010 3:06 pm

Hello Hadar,
You have been sent advertising emails for a long time. Finally, I bought your software, which is PDF2XLS Enterprise, and I have to thank you for the sale coupons. Your software is amazing. I won extra time when I work. Thank you that you meet the software.
Regards,
Emrah BAYAM
Chocolate Val on November 9th, 2010 11:30 pm

Saves me a TON of work even though I only need it maybe once a week. I don’t have to jump through hoops to save to a word doc or psd and then import into excel.
May give the OCR version a try someday.
Carlos Reyes on November 10th, 2010 12:27 am

Is a very good software, until de evaluation version is nice, today need to export data from a pdf to xls and tray with many software and no one evaluation have to do this with a limit of 2 or 3 page.
Thanks.
Niels Erik Karkov on November 10th, 2010 12:32 am

Well I tried some converters but none as elegant and trustworthy as the Cogniview. It has already saved a lot of time for me – and best of all – I trust the results. Besides – the instructions are relevant and instructive and openly tells what the limits of the program are
Han on November 11th, 2010 12:45 am

It does a perfect job. And it’s very easy to use. Only one thing – wish it’s a combo of “PDF to Excel” and “PDF to Word”.
Whitney Stewart on November 12th, 2010 11:19 pm

I have been looking for a tool like yours for a long time. I am not sure how I missed your product.

I downloaded your product today and was able to quickly extract vendor product data from a formatted pdf file.

Most other tools I have tried require extensive post processing because you must delete headers and footers that are generally converted to text.

Not with your tool. I just identified the areas I wanted clicked to extract the data and Wholla!

I immediately purchased the Enterprise version and look forward to learning the more advanced features of your product. This tool will save countless hours of editing and re-editing.

Thank You
Whitney
Dwayne Chesnut on November 13th, 2010 3:46 am

Hadar,
I was probably one of your earliest customers — I can’t now remember where I heard about PDF2XL, but I downloaded the trial version, tried it on a couple of files, and ordered the full version the same day. This was more than 2 years ago. One of the main uses I have made is downloading election data files from state and county election departments, which are often PDF files. Some of these are more than 100 pages long, and all but impossible to use without converting them.

I have been working with computers off and on since 1956, and cannot think of another piece of software that is better designed and easier to use. I consider it the best value of any piece of software I have ever purchased.

Not that I need it, but your customer service is superb, and I enjoy getting your tips on using Excel.

Live long and prosper!
Chris on November 13th, 2010 10:23 am

This program is very helpful for us since we have to type everything contained in a PDF file to an excel file. It also includes splitting columns in to two separate columns which is so similar in excel’s “text to columns” category. Well, all said and done, I’m gonna tell my boss to purchase full version for our company. Thanks a lot!!!
george on November 15th, 2010 1:51 pm

My wife works for a large state university. She has to audit the phone records for her 50 faculty members. The paper report was terrible – lots of pages with very little info on each page.
The communications people made a big deal about overhauling the reporting system, yet, when it was ll said and done, the merely reposduce the same report in a pdf. My wife pleaded with them to provide a data feed, but to no avail.
I downloaded the trial version, converted her reports to data, and started showing her all the different ways to audit her accounts, once it was in a spreadsheet.
Thank you so much for for making her data available to her to manipulate and so saving her hours each month.
Preben on November 16th, 2010 7:22 pm

I needed to extract data from 10 different bank accounts dating 3 years back. I was “looking” forward to do this work manually when I found PDF2XL.
What a relief!
I’m using Open Source Cal and was happy to see the option to extract to this program as well as to CSV files.
One problem, though. The data/numbers I need to extract are in “European format” ##.###,## which caused PDF2XL some problems to do and I think here is an area where PDF2XL ought to be improved. Regardless of the settings in Open Source Cal, I could not extract correctly. I had to first extract to the CSV format and then import those files into Open Source Cal.
I’m new to this product, but the first impression is very good-so easy to use!
Cesar on November 18th, 2010 3:38 pm

I had an audit at work, and my accounting software was fouling all the reports converted to excel – in excess of 80 columns with all the data I didn’t need and my numbers mixed in between those columns… The only good exported reports were in pdf, so I needed to convert them, and there were a lot of them too. I’ve tried a number of different converters but they didn’t help me much, obviously I was reluctant to rely on the online conversions, the protection of data issues and of course time was a factor too. Other converters were not that helpful. The only issue I had was that after conversion I had to edit the data and correct the cells where excel read contents as formulas or the numbers, and especially ‘0.00’, had a space in the cell after the value.
But being able to work in excel instead of pdf has helped tremendously!
Thank you a lot for such a helpful product.
Jaime on November 18th, 2010 9:14 pm

I had to convert some scanned bank ststements in PDF to EXCEL for my audit and this program seemed to be perfect. The only problem is that the statements were from auditee and the auditee made a check mark between each dollar amount and each description. Therefore, PDF2XL could not recognize them as separate and showed them in one cell. Although I could not use the program as I hoped, I think this program is still better than some converting programs.
Gail on November 18th, 2010 10:26 pm

Regarding the scanned bank statements. I just pulled up a scanned bank statement and to split a cell into two or more columns you position the pointer were you want it to split and right click and choose “split here” and it will make another column of data exactly where you want it. You can also drag the orange dotted line of a column to make it wider or thinner.
Vladislav Metnev on November 20th, 2010 1:34 pm

Very convinient. Good tool.
Joe Schnurr on November 21st, 2010 9:00 pm

What an amazing tool… It’s almost like magic and the uses are endless! My company sends many files down in PDF format and of course if it’s a big file it’s nearly impossible to use quickly and efficiently. With PDF2XL, I can now quickly convert, sort and send to my direct reports!

Thanks You PDF2XL! Truly A Lifesaver/Timesaver!
Julian on November 24th, 2010 5:09 pm

WOW! It worked right away… I am so used to those loooong processes and finally… it was a hoax. But not this time. It was straightforward. No gimmicks. Just works! Thanks,gentlemen. Good piece of technology and very human, I must say. Julian
Ben on November 24th, 2010 7:55 pm

I’m a recruiter for an athletic department at a small college. Using PDF2XL as a part of my strategy instantly gave me an advantage over every recruiter in the country. My mass mailing approach went from 1,000 a year to 15,000 a year and resulted in 2 of the larger recruiting classes this institution has ever seen in 100 plus years.
liz on November 25th, 2010 1:46 am

LOVE me some Cogniview. Have looked many times for an easy to use, powerful app to convert PDF files to Excel. Your product fits the bill to a “T”. I do a lot of remote accounting work and receive files from clients as PDF, but more times than not, need to have that data in a spreadsheet to create uploads for the accounting software. Working on a project now where my contact is hard to reach and the files are enormous. Now with Cogniview, I can create my own Excel files and not bother her to recreate for me. I may actually get to enjoy more of the Thanksgiving weekend now
Tiffney on November 29th, 2010 5:39 pm

Up until this point I’ve been taking a 30 page PDF document and typing it out manually into Excel. Today for the first time I used your program and it was fast and easy. What normally took me anywhere from a half a day to full day of work took me five minutes. I will be referring this program to friends and other companies that I know is looking for the same kind of service.
Thank you for making my job 10x easier and saving me time on all this data entry.
Brigitte on November 29th, 2010 6:11 pm

I was looking for a way to convert several bulks of multiple pages documents dating from 1988 onwards, from PDF to Excel, as quickly as possible, so as to be able to use the data in statistical reports that are to be published soon. I stumble on Cogniview page (Google is my friend!)and downloaded PDF2XL without too much expectation. I was surprised at the amount of date I could convert in a few days, and very accurately at that. The program has several useful tools like Split cells or Multipage layouts that enable a safe and quick conversion. One small hindrance: the numbers in the PDF File are in an specific European Format (1,326 is written 1 326, with a blank space as separators). For each file converted, it is necessary, in Excel, to replace the blank space with a dot (another European Format) so as to enable Excel to calculate the values. But it is a very small problem, considering the staggering amount of files which have been treated so far.
Ben on November 30th, 2010 5:56 am

Hi, Have downloaded the Trial Version of pdf2xl and found it very helpful and a massive time saver, as I had to convert a 96 page document to excel. The alteration wer easily done with the spliting and merging of the cells with the helpful tutroial guiding me all the way. With my first project successfully converted I am now planning on purchasing a series of the programs for the company.
Juanjo Alonso on November 30th, 2010 8:58 pm

I was really crazy trying to convert that big pdfs into a good reading excel table……some weeks till i founded this helpful program…..tnx for supporting a trial version, im thinking on upgrade it to the pay version. Tnx again !!
Cynthia Mitchell on November 30th, 2010 11:20 pm

I was given the task of converting PDF’s to Excel and was not too fond of the work ahead until I searched the web and found your site. I used the trial offer and was blown away. I kept the secret to myself and the exec’s were surpised of the accuracy and turn-around time, so they came up with another project for me….I made a request to have the full version and now I’m on my way to yet another successful conversion in no time… Thanks for such a great tool.
Eric on December 1st, 2010 1:03 am

It has saved us many hours re-entering data into excel from PDF files.
Daniel T Chegar on December 1st, 2010 6:52 pm

I am very impressed with PDF2XL and plan on purchasing it when my boss gets back from sick leave. I am the Manager of Information systems here at Warren City Schools in Warren, Ohio. The only thing I can suggest if you could possibly put in as an enhancement is to convert multiple pdfs (with the same formats of course) to 1 excel sheet.

Thank you for a great product!
Patti Brandt on December 1st, 2010 7:13 pm

Hey, Hadar: we perform a ‘v e r y’ manual function of entering item after item of insurance payments into our computer management system. It takes upwards of 12 hours each month to perform entries of anywhere from $.10 to $100′s. Tedious, tedious, tedious. With the .pdf convertor, we can create an Excel spreadsheet and then import the data. Takes ‘maybe’ one hour. What a HUGE timesaver for us and much more efficient. Bless you for this great tool!!!!!
Eduardo Parra on December 1st, 2010 8:04 pm

Hello Hadar,
My name is Eduardo Parra, I counter, and I’ve gone to download Cogniview for my profession, working with pivot tables, macros and many files in excel format and is a very effective and good.

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Tina Ravn on December 2nd, 2010 11:56 am

I work with climate reports for the local municipality. We are in the process of valueing all public buildings in order to get facts on how much CO2 emissions they have. These reports come to my desk in PDF files and by using PDF2XL I can transfer all numbers and facts to the spreadsheet the quickest way possible and save A LOT of time. This way we can act faster to make the nessesary changed. Good for me, good for my employer and GREAT FOR THE ENVIRONMENT!

Fantastic tool and very easy to work with.
Easy to understand, easy to use and I love the layout option – great tool!

You meet, without a doubt, all my expections.
Brian Lee on December 2nd, 2010 1:53 pm

PDF2XL is the best investment I made. I have tried few PDF to XL conversion softwares until I stumbled upon PDF2XL, my search is over. The conversions are accuracy and the ease of use is second to none. Bought my 1st PDF2XL in 2009, bought another one PDF2XL Enterprise today. The customer service is commendable and efficient. This is one software I will not hesitated to recommend to everyone I meet. Money well spent and saved me a lot of precious time.
Well done Cogniview.
Michael George on December 2nd, 2010 3:25 pm

Saved our Cash Receivables about 10 hours a week
Billy on December 3rd, 2010 4:20 pm

We work with a lot of information from Customers in pdf format. We do a lot of copying and pasting information from their pdfs. The first day that I used PDF2XL I saved an hour worth of work because I was able to set up a template and export instead of copying and pasting various pieces separately. I only expect it to save more time as I use it more.
The table functionality is the reason we got the software, and it didn’t disappoint me.
David on December 7th, 2010 5:25 am

Did a weeks work in 1/2 a day. Fantastic. Highly reccommended
Nami on December 8th, 2010 9:35 pm

I’m happy to use the PDF2XL!
My job is conflict table with English and Japanese. PDF2XL was so cool.
Nancy G. on December 10th, 2010 7:45 pm

Two of us in our office (me on a PC and the other on a Mac) both downloaded the program and tried to convert the same 15-page PDF of a scanned document. Both of us had the same result — which was not the desired output at all. Lots of garbly-gook. And, it didn’t grasp all 15 pages of content either, although in the step where I choose/modify my margins/columns it appears to “take” all the content and columns. The final Excel also contains an ad for purchasing the program, which I find tacky and certainly unusable in my desired output.
jose luis crespo on December 11th, 2010 4:42 pm

muy buen producto
Paul Silva on December 11th, 2010 11:36 pm

I recently wrote a spreadsheet that my colleagues agree will create a whole new service area for my company. The problem was that 2 of the columns would require manual input of roughly 40 entries each to modify each case. We have hundreds of brokers, each with hundreds of clients.
Without this software, the innovation was unusable due to labor and error rates.
Your software has made it possible roll out this new service, which separates us from our competition.
anil on December 13th, 2010 9:09 am

useful software. helped me in an emergency, although there were some problems with multi-formatting. thanks
John Sells on December 13th, 2010 12:21 pm

I received a request from a user to convert a table on a PDF file into something manipulatable. I downloaded pdf2xl and ten minutes later it was all done. It’s intuitive and user-friendly. I’d recommend it to anyone.
Tony Stewart on December 14th, 2010 6:12 am

To whom it may concern,

I have have the ongoing need to convert excel spreadsheets that have been saved as PDF files back into Excel. The computer that originally created these files was stolen so the only option was to retype over 1000 pages! I thought there must be a better way for me to do this I searched the internet and used a couple of other programs that were horrible.

I must honestly say that PDF2XL is simply amazing, I have been using the trial program and now after using it for 3 days I feel like I cannot live without it! needless to say, I will absolutely purchase the program so I may use it anytime I need it. Sincere thanks to the people who developed this life saver of a program.
Michael Hart on December 14th, 2010 6:36 pm

I used to OCR our phone bills for accounting, but when we started receiving this data in PDF format, that wasn’t possible, so we where copy typing the data.

The manual process of extracting call data occupied me all day once a month, I tried many solutions including writing macros and nothing worked the way I wanted it to, until I found PDF2XL Enterprise, with easy to follow demo video clips and simple interface, it’s the best application for extracting data from PDF files, no need for two stage process of conversion than formatting the Excel output (unless you want to), everything is very well thought-out.

The results are superior to every other OCR program I’ve used, I’ve never had any of the common errors you would expect, no zeros that should have been eights, all the options for handling any data quality (including spell check with learning functions) practically eliminates the need for most data cleansing processes.
Nhung Le on December 15th, 2010 10:11 pm

Definitely the best PDF to Excel converter out there!!!!!!
Irina on December 16th, 2010 6:33 pm

Very helpful tool. It’s easy to convert Reports from Trams. Use almost every day. Stronly recomend. Thanks.
Jim T on December 16th, 2010 9:47 pm

Very Well Done!

the trial was enough for me to buy. so far, so good!
Malcolm Scott on December 17th, 2010 3:35 pm

We receive pricelists for thousands of products every few weeks because we buy gold and platinum jewellery and the costs change with the gold market prices.

Until now I’ve had to spend many hours cutting and pasting pages from PDF files into Excel and then sorting out all of the price columns manually. This sometimes takes up to 3 days.

Yesterday I used the trial version to convert a 10 page price list. It worked beautifully so I purchased the full version with unlimited updates today.

I’ve just converted a 99 page price list with over 4900 products, each with 10 columns of prices, AND IT TOOK LESS THAN 10 SECONDS! The software paid for itself within minutes of downloading it! Amazing product – well worth the price.

I will be recomending this to everyone I know!
Kent M on December 19th, 2010 3:17 am

I started with a nearly 500 page pdf file to convert and manipulate in Excel. Here’s the problem…more and more pdf files, from accounting systems especially, don’t convert well to Excel. The main problem with other converters is that columns on each page don’t match up, so, e.g., column H from page 1 may not contain the same field as column H from page 2. Not so with PDFX2L… the fields automatically format correctly on EVERY page, and you can even see how the data looks before conversion.

I’ve tried 4 or 5 trial versions of converters, and PDF2XL is by far the best.
Rod on December 19th, 2010 10:04 pm

Curse you PDF2XL! My only incentive to learn how to write Excel macros was my ongoing effort to create a macro that would translate the gibberish I got when I copied a PDF file from a website into a reasonable facsimile of in Excel. Now that I have PDF2XL OCR, I can translate page after page in a matter of seconds. Now what am I going to do in my spare time?

It’s not exactly perfect, because it has an annoying habit of translating l for 1 (ell for one)but those are easy to find and correct.

I could go on for hours (because now I have the time), but just let me say thanks for developing such a handy piece of software.
Karen Westbrooks on December 22nd, 2010 9:47 pm

After using the trial versions of several PDF to Excel converters, I decided to purchase PDF2XL because it converted my files to Excel faster and more accurately than all the others. Because our clients are sometimes dealing with large amounts of inventory, it is imperative that we convert their lists in a timely fashion. Only with the help of PDF2XL have we been able to get this done! Before we were having to do it all by hand, sometimes taking all day long!

Thank you PDF2XL!
Edwin Casuga on December 23rd, 2010 1:17 am

This software saves so much of my time converting pdf files to excel. The only setback is that it does not recognize highlighted words as individual cell unit.
craig mccoll on December 24th, 2010 1:23 pm

Field and table detection worked well; excellent reading of old lineprinter printouts. Used eval version to prove it worked to FD and now purchased full OCR version for a whole stack of old printouts.
Nelson Williams on December 29th, 2010 1:08 am

A lifesaver! I screwed up (deleted) a file that my wife had painstakingly build in Excel, of members, former members, contacts, etc. for her Barbershop Chorus. There were 352 entries! Fortunately…she had printed out a copy two weeks ago…and had only made a few entries since.

If I can’t fix this I am in a “Dog House” at the Arctic circle.

So I “Googled” and found Cogniview. I was a little skeptical, but downloaded the Trial, and had it “read” the PDF file of her printout. Worked like a charm!! I’m buying it! Relief
Austin on December 31st, 2010 12:37 am

PDF2XL helped a lot to reconcile reports originally in pdf format after converting to Excel.

Much better than other available similar products.
Anse Windham on January 2nd, 2011 10:13 pm

Outstanding program! Saved tremendous amount of work converting yearly MasterCard files to an Excel file that can be sorted and manipulated. Hours of work converted easily to 20 minutes. Ready for tax time. THANKS!!
Roosevelt Williams on January 3rd, 2011 4:47 pm

At my day job I had an extensive, 2-part process within our system that gives the “Excel or PDF” option for part one but not part two. Matching and reconciling the two parts was a full day’s work… before PDF2XL. The increase in productivity made me and my boss EXTREMELY happy! Thanks for such an amazing product!
Brad Morrison on January 3rd, 2011 8:02 pm

I accepted a contract over the holidays from a business owner who gave me printed spreadsheets and expected me to do the arithmetic by hand for 160 rows + 12 columns. I asked for the source spreadsheets, didn’t get them, and thought I’d have to reconstruct them in Excel and do the data entry by hand. Then I found cogniview. It was almost too easy — I scanned the multi-page printout (which was crooked), redefined about half of the columns, saved to Excel, and I am completing the project in 10% of the time it would have taken to do it by hand or by redefining and doing the data entry.
JEFREY P KANEFF on January 5th, 2011 12:53 am

I AM JUST A HOMEOWNER AND RETIRED MANAGER WHO NEEDED TO DOWNLOAD CREDIT CARD AND BANKING INFORMATION FOR TAXES. SOME DATA COULD BE DOWNLOADED DIRECTLY INTO EXCEL. MOST, AND I MEAN, MOST, OF THE DATA I NEEDED WERE CONTAINED IN PDF DOCUMENTS. LAST YEAR, I HAD COUNTLESS HUNDREDS IF NOT THOUSANDS OF TIME CONSUMING DATA ENTRY STROKES TO PREPARE FOR MY TAXES. THIS YEAR I’M USING MY PURCHASED PDF2XL AND WHAT A DIFFERENCE. I WENT FROM DRIVING A BIPLANE TO FLYING THE SPACE SHUTTLE. THANK YOU COGNIVIEW.
Apryl on January 6th, 2011 12:13 am

I’m definitely impressed. With just a few moments of manipulation I was able to get what I needed. Thank you!
jose eduardo on January 6th, 2011 4:35 pm

I am in the need to regularly transform a pdf file to excell, but this file doesn,t come in a good table form. It is a detailed mensaly income salary for each of our worker, some times it is more than 1000. For each worker we have a title line eith his name and function, than comes some lines in colum form, than some lines in another colum form. I tried to creaet a pattern of table for each worker ando copy it one by one. It didn´t work well, but evenso it was a save of time.
If there is a better way og doing it, let me know.
hadar on January 6th, 2011 4:51 pm

Hi Jose,
Can you send me a sample of your file, I will be happy to help you convert it to Excel.

You can send it to hadark@cogniview.com.
Eliane on January 6th, 2011 11:01 pm

Really a big tool!!!
Friendly interface, quickly run and the most important is that is so easy to work.
Wonderful.. Congratulations.
I always looked for a tool that run convertion from pdf to excel but never found anything good.
My single problem was that i have only Microsoft Excel Starter in my notebook and tool dont work in this excel version.
But i knew PDF2XL in another machine that had excel from Microsoft Office and i love it.
If you could prepare tool to run in another excel versions would be so good.
Thank you.
faiza on January 7th, 2011 5:20 pm

HI,
nothing to said………….JUST PDF2XL IS AMAZING TOOL OF WORKING.thanks:)
faiza on January 7th, 2011 5:21 pm

HI,
nothing to said………….JUST PDF2XL IS AMAZING TOOL for WORKING.thanks:)
Angela on January 7th, 2011 8:24 pm

PDF2XL has been a true lifesaver for us ladies in the HR and Business Office of our school district. Thank you for the opportunity to provide positive feedback. I certainly recommend this program to anyone who uses EXCEL.
Elsie on January 8th, 2011 3:25 am

The product was truely a life saver. Although a trial version I was still able to do up to 300 pages. Easy to use also.
Michael on January 8th, 2011 3:31 am

We need to access some information that’s only been published in pdf format. Ratings for sailboat races.

Well, right out of the box, the thing worked like a charm. With a little tweaking, it worked like a Lucky Charm.

PDF2XL. It’s magically delicious.
Michael on January 9th, 2011 6:31 pm

I have a business where I audit expense invoices for a client. For the last 2 years I have been copying and pasting between 35-50 pages of data from pdf into excel just so that I can begin the audit process. I tried many solutions including the purchase of the full Adobe Acrobat package ($400) but could not get a clean data export, (the subtotals on the page always messed up the results) so I continued to copy and paste. Using the trial version, I was able to convert a 50 page summary sheet and format it ready for auditing within 35 minutes – the trial version only allows conversion of 5 pages at a time, so it worked in several steps. The task that would have taken me 6 hours to do manually was done in 35 minutes, and now that I have purchased the software I will be able to it much faster since I can convert the whole document at once. A very tedious and unproductive part of my monthly process has just been downsized. Thank you so much!
Adam on January 14th, 2011 1:40 am

Just recently started using this product and it allowed our data entry specialist to complete work in a matter of hours instead of a couple days. It has been amazing to see the speed at which we can handle our workload now.
Khadim on January 16th, 2011 1:27 am

Thank you very much for this great product, I was in tension to type some thousands of data from PDF file since one year, and I didn’t find time to do that typing work. And last moment my supervisor order me to complete the work in one week. Then I googled for conversion program from PDF to Excel, and I found this PDF2XL free trial program and within 2 hours I finish my work easily, And now I relaxed so much… I don’t have proper words how happy I am. So today I purchased full version for future use. Thank you once again.
Janet on January 18th, 2011 10:35 pm

At end of the day on Friday, we had PDF files from a potential company we were going to purchase to analyze their sales data and wanted to dump the files into Excel….we had nothing on-hand that would allow us to achieve this goal, so I went on the internet real fast, did a bing search, and found this website. It seemed very easy to handle, so I downloaded the trial version, converted my files, and then decided to purchase one week later because of the ease of use. Thanks for a great product.
Rex Kaup on January 19th, 2011 2:07 am

I needed something quick to change PDF to an Excel.
So far it’s a great added feature to the list of all my other software programs.
Thanks Alot!
Leonardo on January 20th, 2011 11:37 pm

Excelent software
however too pricey.
It should cost $20 ~ $25.00
It would sale a lot.
Daniel T Chegar on January 21st, 2011 7:47 pm

Great product. Very minor cleanup is needed if any.
I have not run into any conversion it cannot do.
I am happy!
Fabiano Heckler on January 22nd, 2011 11:32 pm

Excelente Ferramenta, so faltou a versao em Portugues. A melhor de varias que testei… Parabens…
Jerry Voelker on January 23rd, 2011 7:41 pm

I get 505 page documents from our financial department at work in a PDF document that has different layouts for even and odd pages. For reasons I can’t understand, they would have me save the document as a text file at work and then TAB through it so I could import it into Excel! I would literally spend TWO DAYS of work doing this every other week.

I searched all over the internet trying to find the best way to do it. I tried at least 6 different methods and software solutions. When I tried PDF2XL, I was floored! It worked so quickly and easily that I actually called my brother to say how amazing it was! I was able to convert 20 hours of work into about 5 minutes! This is absolutely great software!
Michael on January 27th, 2011 9:29 pm

I have tried several PDF converters over the years. some failed to do anything useful and others took almost as long clean up as it would have to retype the thing from scratch. Tried the trial version on a whim, great whim. Converted a 40 page sales history report almost instantly. If the dumbies hadn’t written notes on some of the pages the conversion would have been perfect. took minimul time to cleanup and was ready to drill through on the first pass. I saved the bigger part of a day on this small project. these reports can be 300-500 pages some times. Have shown the program to three other people. Two of them ordered it the same day. Thanks for a great tool.
Burdette Hansen on January 28th, 2011 4:42 am

I use the software to covert fairly large .pdf files to Excel. Even though I am old I can usualy do this in a very short tiem.

I have some unually fioles that give me and the software troube coverting .pdf files to Word.
Rich on January 30th, 2011 12:08 am

I tried other products, but there was to many conversion errors – in the hundreds – that needed to be retyped, and that was after only a couple of hundred pages. I was about to give up and found this product. After processing the 3,000 pages I had about a dozen errors that needed to be retyped vs “the other guys” who had hundreds after a couple of hundred pages.

I am managing a lawsuit that has over $7,500,000 in disputed invoices. The invoices are over 3,000 pages, spanning 3 years and document the activity of over 3 dozen timekeepers. I needed an effective way to manage this data. The layout of the data prevented using the ‘template’ feature and each individual page had to be reviewed and fields merged etc. This product has greatly increased efficiency and saved an untold dozens of hours of labor, not only in compiling the data, but its use of the data. What I got at the end of the day was a spreadsheet where I added columns that would allow me to categorize the activities. Specifically, I could sort by timekeeper; take the timekeepers deposition, ask questions about particular entries and then assign an ‘issue code’ to the particular entry. This enabled me to group the ‘issues’ together for presentation to a jury.
VLB on February 1st, 2011 11:07 pm

Ik ben erg gecharmeerd van deze software en kan een hoop werk uit handen nemen.
Zolang er op het gescande document niet teveel vervuiling op staat gaat de ocr perfect, maar zodra door scanning zwarte vlekken in het pdf aanwezig zijn vertaald de ocr dit in onbedoelde tekens.
Ik heb deze software voor mijn werkgever uitgeprobeert en zal dit zeker aanraden om te nemen.De software gaat gebruikt worden voor het digitalisering van gegevens, waar veel getallen in de pdf documenten aanwezig zijn en in juiste getallen geplaatst moet worden.
Patrick McHugh on February 2nd, 2011 6:26 pm

My bank only provides PDF Image data for my bank statements as their “Electronic Statement”. This data is in columns and is required to be loaded into an excel file. I tried several methods including some OCR products, Freeware, and Adobe software – none worked well (and all required significant work to validate the data and to correctly put the data into columns.

PDF2XL OCR Signicantly reduced the amount of effort required to compile the data in an acceptable format(10X time reduction). The time reduction resulted in labor cost reduction more than the purchase price.

Thanks Guys!
vlad on February 4th, 2011 7:30 am

Beautiful tool that helped me convert an annex pdf table into excel so I could fill it. Like patrick said above, I may use it to convert my bank statements too. Thanks a lot.
Michael Ray on February 5th, 2011 1:13 am

This is an AMAZING product. I looked at the short demo, downloaded the trial version, and on the first try successfully converted a tricky PDF into Excel. This has already saved me hours of work!
ramesh on February 10th, 2011 12:00 pm

Let me start off by saying I wish I had downloaded PDF2XL OCR sooner. I never realized how much time went futile over converting pdf text (in table) to excel table, until I could figure out how to make it stop after too many google searchs for applications like this, Instantly downloaded and installed it. I was so relieved for my work getting in fraction of time what it used to take before. I highly recommend this software for anyone doing Data conversion business. It could literally save you too much of time and money, perfectly supporting for an effective delivery.

The best things about this software is:
1. It is very easy to install and works user friendly.
2. Supports most of OS platforms.
2. All the options in the application are self explanatory.
3. Processing time is too short for any type of conversion.

Request:
Please ensure that this product has a better visibility on google search.

Thanks to the entire development team and the strategic management.

Thanks and regards,
Ramesh
Carol on February 11th, 2011 8:54 pm

Using this product makes performing a bank rec a breeze, especially when you are trying to halp a client that has not performed a bank rec on any of their three accounts for the past two years and the statements are up to 36 pages long!

I could not find an easier or more accurate product on the market, and I tested a number of them. don’t hesitate to purchase PDF2XL!

Carol
Tiffany on February 15th, 2011 11:08 pm

Where has this product been? For the past 4 years we have been trying to find a way to convert our university course schedule from PDF to Excel. This has been quite the task seeing as though the format we are given to work with is not user friendly. Thanks to PDF2XL OCR, what normally takes me a few hours, literally took me a few minutes. Our office thanks you and so do our prospective students whom you have assisted. Thank you.
Tim on February 16th, 2011 9:54 pm

388 pages! Converted in a flash and parsed 100% correctly. I bought it! Enterprise to boot!
I have tested several other programs and none performed to my expectations until now.
This is one slick piece of code and I plan to wear it out!
Thanks for building an application that I desparately needed and is simple enought that anyone can use.
Nik Chotai on February 17th, 2011 8:26 pm

Hi, I had been sent a stream of data in a downloaded pdf file from an accounts package. Was looking at having to get someone to manually type in c4-500 rows of data, but this product is a god send! Fantastic! One question is around multiple pages. Can the programme recognise headings as the data I have is a continuous table, but at every page brak, it restates the headings and has page numbers at the bottom. Thanks! Nik
Michoel Reach on February 18th, 2011 2:39 am

I had been growing very frustrated with trying to get the information in some of our pdfs into Excel. Everything I tried seemed to output to space-delineated text, more or less – totally insufficient for many of our columns. Plus, it sometimes skipped over missing entries, mushing everything to the left. Plus, it got the order of elements all wrong, forcing us into complicated heuristics for parsing them. I found it very hard to trust our results without checking every single element.
Then, today, I saw your product online, and realized that it deals with a pdf the way it really is: By position on the page. Suddenly my pdfs were getting parsed properly. Plus, I could save the templates, and began to realize that a few patterns could handle all the pdfs I have. It’s wonderful.

There are still some of our old pdfs that show up as a bunch of control characters; not sure why.
Michoel Reach on February 18th, 2011 8:47 pm

Now I tried to use the evaluation version of the -OCR edition, to see if it could handle these old pdfs. It says I can’t do it without uninstalling what I’ve got. Now that is annoying.
hadar on February 18th, 2011 9:55 pm

Hi,
I’m sorry you are having problems with PDF2XL. If you could send me your contact information, one of our tech support can will get back to you to help you.

Best Regards,

Hadar
Michoel Reach on February 20th, 2011 7:27 am

Hadar, it’s nothing urgent. I just downloaded the evaluation version of PDF2XL OCR to a different PC; that’ll do for now, since we’ve only bought a one-PC version of PDF2XL so far. I just thought it was a Bad Thing.
Ranganath on February 20th, 2011 4:10 pm

We were trying to convert few pdf document containing customer data for importing into our software, this is the only tool which met our expectations and its very easy to use.

Thank you.,
YoshitsuguNakano on February 20th, 2011 5:00 pm

It’s fantastic, WOW!
Well, hello friends.
I must leave my message with my so good impression of the software indeed, as like this.
Suppose you have thousands pdf file recorded of the past order and must make a report of weekly sales by products and daily basis within tomorrow.
For this job I have considered so much with how to complete it in a one day, and had a nightmare where my boss is complaining me why I have not done it on time last night. After waked up, an image has come back in my mind and I remind to consider how to do it finally. Well, thousands of files are recorded by pdf format and thus if I could get its data by excel format, then I can do sort in a excel file, then success to get any required key value for putting into a report.
Once I could remind like it, it must be so easy to approach. Go to google, search by keyword with pdf to excel …….
Got it. PDF2XL…
Get Trial ….
Test it ….
OKay, done.
I shall buy it today to complete within tomorrow and report complete format of required weekly basis analytical sales report tomorrow evening.
Yes, I can.
Kevin on February 21st, 2011 1:58 am

We have just gone to a web based system at our school and the reports are only in PDF. Thank you for saving me hours of work with PDF2XL program.
J Eric Mutter on February 23rd, 2011 8:42 am

For some time we’ve limped along with this software or that software, wrestling with the clean up of the output data, a real nightmare!

Bring in PD2XL, now more than ever, we’re able to process volumes of information without a hitch, slowdown and extensive clean up.

Congrats Cogniview for a product above reproach.
Derek Chambers on February 23rd, 2011 2:15 pm

Can not give enough praise to this piece of software as I have tried other OCR software but this is fantastic. Transferred 74 pages of multipage format very easily with only 3 minor modifications required.
Anil on February 24th, 2011 11:21 am

I have been in industry where lot of docs comes in various formats like scans ets, and very difficult to rework on them, without having a editable copy. This tool is awasome.
Anil
Maksim on February 24th, 2011 12:51 pm

Very good tool, which saves many time for converting the customer PDFs!
The interface is easy and friendly. The one thing that I miss is the possibility to convert the large PDF document with different page layout in one EXEL file.
Thakur O.P.Singh on February 25th, 2011 4:04 pm

In jan 2008 I’m in deep truble. because i have more then one million records in PDF and its required to get some stattics report based on calucalation and some modifation of this data.
That time I get a link from google search and when i tried this product, Its give me amazeing results and satisfaction.
Dave on February 26th, 2011 1:22 am

PDF2XL is great. It saves so much time having to input the data into Excel.
Eileen McKenney on February 28th, 2011 11:48 pm

I am working on a legal claim and we received a poorly scanned pdf of a 130 page cost report. Working one page at a time, I have been able to convert the cost report to excel so that we can extract valuable data. Without this tool, I would have been typing for months…at a significant cost to our client. While we do have to edit the excel file, the majority of the information converts well, and we are able to correct the “common” errors. Good product so far! Thanks
Chris Perrier on March 1st, 2011 5:29 pm

This product is outstanding. For years I have struggled to reconcile investment accounts from paper statements by hand. I tried creating my own EXCEL workbook to enter gains/losses and cost basis values, etc. that would match my fiscal year end needs. The company statements are based on the calendar year. It took me days and days, sometimes a month or so to finally get my figures to agree. I begged the company to send reports that would help. Finally I went to Google and typed in the words “EXCEL converter”, scrolled down and found the Cogniview website. What a discovery. Now, I simply download my statements into a PDF file, convert them to EXCEL, adjust a few things, put in the formulas, and it is done. Now, in a few hours I can reconcile 6 months of statements from multiple accounts. Thank you for developing such a wonderful product. It has been a life saver!!!
Georgie on March 2nd, 2011 3:33 am

I started using the product last year to help me with my 2009 tax return. Wow…what a wonderful product…I started using it immediately and it saved me a lot time and aggravation.

Thank you again!

All the best to you and your family in 2011!

Georgie
giovanni on March 6th, 2011 10:34 pm

excellent, phenomenal, , I did not think there was a program like that. thank you very much.
Debi on March 8th, 2011 4:05 am

Excellent, great to use for converting price-lists saves hours of my time.

Thank you very much
Sippo on March 9th, 2011 12:52 am

This version works better than ever. Only one wish remains: make a version for the MAC,for Numbers, Office2011 4 Mac, for Numbers, and (YES!) for the iPAD 2.
TIA / Sippo (in The Netherlands)
Jorge Sama on March 9th, 2011 11:47 pm

I test PDF to excel and it was a great experience in my Job, it safe me at least 75% of my time to finish an Audit Report.

Your Truly, Jorge
Jen and Rick on March 10th, 2011 3:19 am

Hi Hadar
We were tasked a few days ago with converting a batch of stationery catalogues from .pdf to Excel – a task much too big and urgent for typing out again manually. The way we were advised to do it was to convert each page to a .tif, then run the .tif files through a pre-installed OCR. This was a long and frustrating process, and we often found ourselves tearing our hair out, wondering why we couldn’t just copy the tables straight from .pdf to Excel.
It was this morning we were pointed towards PDF2XL. Within a few hours, we got more accomplished than we’d've managed in 2 weeks without it! The OCR’s fantastically reliable – it doesn’t confuse zeroes with O, like our previous one (nor does it inexplicably decide that our text is upside-down, or create columns in the wrong order, or any of its other little annoyances). It’s great to be able to select multiple tables from each page, edit out the columns we don’t need, and convert them to Excel all in one go.
The only thing I could think of that would make the program better is to be able to resize and merge rows in the same way as columns, for when a long entry runs onto two lines.
In short, PDF2XL has been the answer to all our prayers, and we’re buying it right away!
Thank you!
Jen and Rick (UK)
Martin Straub on March 10th, 2011 4:31 am

As the IT Director at a CPA Firm I’m constantly on the lookout for easy-to-use tools that solve a specific need. In that regards, PDF2XL hits a home-run. We just used this for the first time on a tax return project that probably saved us hours of time. I’m also particularly impressed with the help/tutorial that doubles as a wizard to guide you through the conversion process.

Great product!
Rob on March 10th, 2011 4:47 am

AMAZING!!

We receive bank notification deposits in both PDF and JPG format. We needed to quickly convert our files to excel. I downloaded the evaluation copy and within less than 2 mins I was able to convert the a file that would have normally taken hours.

The product is very inu

VERY IMPRESSIVE!!
Jan on March 10th, 2011 2:57 pm

Finally a tool that will save me a lot of time of copying and pasting PDF-data to Excel.
The user interface is set up in a way that will easily guide you through the process of converting your documents.
Very usefull tool.
hadar on March 10th, 2011 3:10 pm

Hi Jen,
Thank you for taking the time to provide us with your feedback and for your very kind words

We do have a solution for your problem, you can check the solution on this page:
http://www.cogniview.com/help/pdf2xl/html/TableLayoutTypes.php

I hope that would help and please be sure to contact me anytime if I can provide any further assistance.

Always at your service,
Geo on March 10th, 2011 3:12 pm

I needed to extract bank account details for tax purposes. I started the job by hand. It became evident this was going to take time, besides being tedious.

A Google search found Able2extract and Cogniview PDF2XL. Both similarly priced.

Thats where the comaprison ended. PDF2XL was far more practical and simpler to use. The extracted number results where spot on.

Able2extract was a lot more fiddly, and occassionally would mess up allowing only full page copy instead of a small area of numbers.

PDF2XL was fast, easy to use, and intuitive.
Would definitely recommend this.

The time it saves me was worth the price.
shileag on March 12th, 2011 9:47 am

Thanks very much for the software but it doen not really show how to use it. May be if you give the orde of easy use for an ordenary person.

THANKS
Richard on March 16th, 2011 7:20 pm

My client has been coming backto me, every few months to help her convert supplier statements from pdf to excel, she has spoken with them to ask them not to do this but they do not listen at all. So I have tried various online convertors then I thought they need something permanent, although I make money everytime they call up to get the conversions done if they had their own software it would save them time and in the end money. So I downloaded the trial to my PC and she has usual sent me the PDF that needed converting, it was so simple to use and did just what I needed, ok in the trial a bit of a pain when I wanted to convert 11 pages but the trial only allows 10, so I had to send her two spreadsheets one of 10 pages and another of just one.
She is now going to speak with the manager of her company about purchasing a copy for her computer.

Happy Days.

What a fantastic program this is!
Flavio Roldan on March 17th, 2011 8:19 pm

Amaizing!!!!
Cathy on March 18th, 2011 6:39 pm

The ease of this software is great. We purchased another program that cost much more and was very dissatisfied. Thanks for such a great product.
Christina on March 21st, 2011 4:45 am

I’m a financial analyst in the public sector. I often get annual financial reports emailed in pdf, or on paper that have to be scanned. PDF2XL has save me countless hours getting my financial information from PDFs to spreadsheets. I used to do data entry for days before I could do analysis. Now I can go straight to looking at trends and changes! And I can get to the real data work (not just boring entry) while I still fresh and rearing to go! I recently upgraded to PDF2XL Enterprise and its well worth the price. It pays for itself in less than a work week. Thank you for an excellent product!
simone cuomo on March 21st, 2011 7:34 pm

In a word simply fantastic. I have tried other software downloaded on the Internet. Some were heavy (300Mb)and complicated while others too much expensive. I download price list from our partners and I can immediately work on raw data.
Doesn’t require to much IT resources and it’s very intuitive. Even if you are not a computer geek just watch the 2 minutes video (by the way great idea) and you will be ready to import your documents into excel within few seconds. It really does what it says on the tin !
Dimple on March 21st, 2011 10:06 pm

I downloaded the trial and it seems to work great compared to others I found online. Thanks!
Mario Ansaldi on March 23rd, 2011 4:44 pm

Eccezionale strumento per la cattura di tabelle di excel e trasformarle in pratiche e utili tabelle di Excel.
Fa risparmiare molte ore di lavoro a chi come me passa intere iornate ad analizzare dati , statistiche, e ogni altra sorta di informazioni provenienti dalle più disparate fonti.
Ottimo strumento di lavoro COmplimenti!
oszi on March 23rd, 2011 6:20 pm

I allways have a lot of pdfs where I have to copy out lots of numbers and comments. Up to now I tried several converters but for a long time I found nothing that works really fine, so I copied the last time per hand my files into Excel with drag and drop of single lines
With this converter I got a new quality of life back, it works so easy and fine that I do not understand why I haven’t look for it more time in the past. Some minutes ago I looked for a purchasing contact to buy it.
Gagan Nagpal on March 23rd, 2011 7:14 pm

I am associated with Accenture as a financial analyst and have to use excel in a large way. I usually get financial reports mailed to me in pdf, or the other formats. Those have to be scanned to work upon. PDF2XL has saved me n number of hours by getting my vital financial information converted from PDFs to spreadsheets. Earlier, I had to do data entry for many hours before I could do analysis. But now, with PDF2XL in action, I can start analysing in minutes…

Hold on… It is of great utility but it is not an unmixed blessing. If the quality of PDF is not good, then the data it converts may have a lot of errors. The users should not blindly count on the converted data if the PDF quality is not great. You just have to be careful in this case.

Rest is best.

Thanks Hadar.
Valentina on March 23rd, 2011 7:47 pm

Great.. that’s what i was looking for.
Thank u so mach
Ricardo on March 24th, 2011 3:06 pm

Thansk for the evaluation copy. I have a file with collums but with not tables. The PDF2XL easyly convert the files with no problems! I really love it!!! Congratulations.
Amir on March 25th, 2011 12:17 pm

Thank you for the evaluation product.

I am often send scanned pdf of bills I have to convert to excel for analysis. What I like here is the fact that before converting the program lets me correct the automatically found colums which I can split or merge thereby already significantly improving the end result.

Although the result (from scanned pdf which is hardest to convert) was not perfect the amount of editing needed was minimal before I had a usable result.

All considered this is a very usable and good product that I can wholeheartadly recommend

My compliments for this product Cogniview
A Barson on March 25th, 2011 6:49 pm

This program is so much easier than other programs we have used in our department. The tutorial is clear and full of information. It makes it so much easier to convert from PDF which makes my job easier.Other programs we have used would not allow us to convert using scanned pages, Cogniview does. Wonderful!!
Thank you!
Wayne Senis on March 26th, 2011 3:33 am

This tool works great! Very easy to use and very accurate.

Thanks
Barry Murphy on March 26th, 2011 9:49 am

I have looked at various ways to convert PDF files to Excel including scanning, optical character recognition, and the latest version of Adobe Acrobat X.

Nothing works as well as Cogniview’s PDF2XL. The PDF files I have been attempting to convert include financial analysis and reports with complex layouts that make their conversion to Excel very challenging.

With PDF2XL it is not only possible to convert these PDF files, it is a breeze. I am won over after using the evaluation version and will buy the full version as soon as I finish typing this note.
Colni Towner on March 28th, 2011 8:58 pm

This tool saves me and my team hours of work capturing market data and other sources. Thanks!
Allam on March 29th, 2011 3:03 pm

At first I couldn’t believe that it can convert the tables I got in my PDF file in to Excel Format. But I was pleasantly surprised when it did what it did. And quite fast too.

One of the best softwares I have ever seen.
Thoufeeque on April 4th, 2011 9:27 am

so super converter
Mohammed Rafiq on April 6th, 2011 4:54 pm

Felt like I was using the PC like a Typewritter before I used this Program

By now i must have spoken to hundreds of my friends about how I have so much time on hand today to join them at the local
Monica Valbuena on April 6th, 2011 7:40 pm

Hola Hada
Realmente me siento contenta por el producto que descargue como prueba, pero resulta que tengo un archivo pdf que contiene 20106 hojas y deseo convertirla a excel pero no ha sido posible debido a que tengo una versión prueba, mi inquietud es ¿Cuanto Cuesta en pesos colombianos?, ¿en donde lo puedo adquirir?

Gracias
Christa Jennings on April 6th, 2011 8:41 pm

Hello!

I am the corporate software trainer for a mid-sized insurance brokerage in Western Washington state. We experience a high volume of PDF documents that need to be converted to Excel format in order to be imported into our database.

I began researching PDF to Excel programs online to find us a tool that was efficient, user friendly and appropriately priced. After downloading several different programs for various trial periods, I found Cogniview PDF2XL to be the best available for our needs.

Not only is it quick and easy to use, but it is extremely cost effective. I can’t tell you how impressed we are with this program and its many capabilities.

Thank you!
Ruben on April 8th, 2011 12:38 am

I regularly request public information from cities and counties in California. PDF2XL lets me to quickly convert the pdfs I receive into clean Excel documents.

This gives me more time for analysis and less wasted time converting. It works better than using Acrobat and I especially love being able to identify fields I need in each row.

Thank you PDF2XL for helping the public use the information that is ours!
Mervyn Dias on April 11th, 2011 8:29 pm

Yes it was very helpful for me to transfer pdf files into excel. Thank you
Julie Gangloff on April 12th, 2011 12:37 am

I of all people know the importance of backing up my files, but I had gotten lazy and had not done it in a much longer time than I had realized. We are a small company so we don’t have a lot a redundancy that would get us out of a bind when the computer that contained the majority of the financial information from our company was lost to a catastrophic hard drive failure, just at tax time. We had access to PDF reports if I could only figure out a way to get all that information from the reports back into usable data. PDF2XL saved the day. It was easy to use, even for someone as frazzled as I was at that moment, and made the job of reinventing the lost information almost uneventful. We now have off-site back-up and PDF2XL, and I once again sleep at night, worry free. Thank you PDF2XL for providing an inexpensive and easy to use software. It saved the day!
Igor on April 13th, 2011 5:47 pm

We use extensivly pdf2xl for extracting text from pdf drawings. Extremly fast and works well. The result is a excel sheet with all text in workbook. Keep going, great work.
varas on April 14th, 2011 7:01 pm

I have had a very good experience with your converter
Lourdes on April 15th, 2011 7:48 am

Hi Habar

I just bought the Ent just now. Im from Australia. I came across your product last night as I was desperate to find a pdf converter as I was asked by my boss to analyse some costs e.g phone, tolls, etc. I have the Nuance PDF No 5 but options are very limited. I tried your OCR last night and I was really impressed so I bought the Enterprise. It’s my birthday today and I thought I was gonna spend the whole day converting the files. Your pdf2xl converter save the important day of my life this year. Now I dont have t cancel my b-day diner with my sweetheart. Thanks very much. You’re genius, Mate. Cheers
Lizelle on April 15th, 2011 2:05 pm

I have just spent an hour trying different ways to get pdf information onto excel. I would have to convert a lot of data and was looking for the easiest way to convert data from pdf to excel. pdf2xl is amazing. It is easy to use and the results are instant. Can’t believe how much time I have wasted.
Lizelle
Gino Smeulders on April 17th, 2011 1:17 pm

This software is amazing. I tried many software packages that claim to convert from pdf to xls. None of them did the job on the fairly complex scanned pages I have, containing lots of tables with varying layout. Cogniview’s software flawlessly does the job and is even easy to use.

Customer support is also very good. When working on a complex layout, I asked for assistance by e-mail and quickly received a working layout and description how they did the job. Thanks a lot.

I have just one request for future versions (or maybe the option exists, but I was not able to find it). When working on scanned pages with the same layout on each page, margins are often different on each page. This is due to inaccuracies in the scanning process. It would be great if the software could automatically detect this and compensate for it, so that I don’t have to manually move the layout a bit.

Thanks again. Please continue the good work.
Bengt on April 19th, 2011 2:08 pm

Hello,

I am trying to OCR many pages (hundreds) of tank filling tables with the same sayout. I have the same problem as Gino Smeulders. The layout is the same but the columns may not be at exactly the same place on the paper`so the conversion will fail.
Can i do something to eliminate the problem ?

Best regards
Bengt
Maya on April 20th, 2011 12:16 pm

When my boss wanted me to type the info on 65 PDF-pages into Excel I thought about quitting my job.

The task seemed so devastating. Luckily, after having tried five or six other converters that all failed, I found PDF2XL.

I decided to purchase (without my boss knowing it, he still thinks I typed this on nights and weekends) the program after the trial period.

Saved me heaps of time (and got me plenty of goodwill from my boss)

Thx!
Kind Regards,
Maya the secretary
Dr Pavan statistics on April 21st, 2011 8:26 am

Astonishing. Very easy to use and user friendly software.
Lenin Perumalsamy on April 26th, 2011 7:21 pm

I’m with the Portfolio Analytics team at Admiral and our work often involves the complex data management tasks.
I signed up for the Cogniview but by the time I receive the email and activation link, I had time to try almost half a dozen of PDF-Excel converter available online for a trial and none worked the way how I needed it.
As a last resort, I started to use the Cogniview link and by the way much impressed with the approach they have taken for the conversion. It is pretty neat and have recommended our IT to purchase a license rightaway.
It’s very user friendly, and obviously saved a lots of time easily the best pdf-excel converter I’ve came across.

Thanks,
Lenin.
Eldonna Rhoades on April 30th, 2011 4:57 pm

PDF2XL provides the much needed bridge between my customers and clients easiest method of sending information (PDF and Fax) and my easiest method of processing information which is Excel. I am able to upload Excel files into the in-house software with just a few clicks in lieu of hours of data entry. Converting PDF’s to Excel saves time, money, and wrist fatigue. (Bet you never thought of PDF2XL as a health benefit.)
Ali on April 30th, 2011 7:37 pm

Hi,
As a part of my job,I am recently working on financial statements of different companies. My task includes extracting the relevant figures from the financial statements in PDF format and typing the same into Microsoft Excel. That’s why I was looking for a software that could help me extract only relevant data from a PDF file into Excel format. Since manually doing this can take around 8-10 hours for a single company’s financial statements I tried using a few software but the results were not satisfactory.

Browsing on CNET, I came across PDF2XL and downloaded it to try.I have just started using PDF2XL and I am testing it if it can assist me in getting my job done in an efficient way. Since extracting relevant data from PDF format files into Excel format is a regular task at my organisation, if this software works well for me I will definitely refer this to my organisation.

It is a too early to write my story but I don’t want to miss a chance to win a gift so I am writing it.

Regards
Ali
Andreia Santana on May 4th, 2011 5:05 pm

Working with benefits relationship and I always receive registration information and benefits of staff they employ in pdf. With the PDF2XL quickly convert the files to Excel and import the data directly to my site big time-saver because if not for the PDF2XL this manual registration would be …
emmdee on May 6th, 2011 10:52 am

very good result

Thanks
rajesh on May 7th, 2011 1:16 pm

excellent result for converting the pdf to excel
Aaron on May 10th, 2011 4:15 am

- Great results
- Ability to customize columns is essential
- Able to convert a scanned pdf that was originally in hard copy format

As an auditor, companies provide us with paper documentation in an attempt to hinder our ability to efficiently and effectively review their data. This software is excellent in alleviating this problem by converting the info into a workable soft copy format like Excel.
Thanks.
Jennifer Wright on May 12th, 2011 6:25 pm

I can sum it up in one word. Amazing! We have several excel spreadsheets that were scanned into pdf documents for our archive files. The spreadsheets contained dates and notes in columns. Yesterday I was asked to update the original excel spreadsheet with dates and notes over the last year however I couldnt locate the spreadsheet. Uh oh I thought. I would now need to retype the entire pdf document. Before doing so I came up with the idea to find software which could convert the data back into excel. Low and behold using a search engine brought me to PDF2XL.

Wow! What would have taken me several hours to retype into an excel spreadsheet took literally 2 minutes to convert. The dates are in Colunm A and the notes are in Column B just as the original spreadsheet I had created. I put a request into our IT Department to purchase this product today!! I am certain I could find another use for it in the future.
zenic on May 13th, 2011 10:14 am

Your software is very hopeful and i really consider to buy it when the trial version ended.
I tried it and also if there are some limitations it was really great and in one second makes possible to edit documents.
I really appreciate it thanks to made it.
Best regards.
David Cardenas on May 14th, 2011 9:48 pm

I was struggling for days to convert a huge table from a PDF to excel, i tried dozens of products, trials, online, and no luck. Finally i found cogniview and converted the table in less than 2 minutes, couldn’t be easier nor faster. I’m sincerily impressed.
Larry Wall on May 17th, 2011 7:44 pm

Finding utilities that meet certain requirements can be difficult. This software is outstanding. I needed to covert a PDF document that was originally a Word document written in columns to a spreadsheet. This program did it flawlessly–granted, some tweeking is needed for the final result, but that is a fault of the original document and not the conversion process. The support staff has been extremely helpful and I highly recommend this product to anyone that is faced with the task of converting documents our of necessity or for ease and additional productivity.

Simply stated, it is an excellent product.
Cherry Joy Millanes on May 22nd, 2011 5:42 pm

I tried using several OCR software trial.However, it is a great disappointment that its facilities does not suffice the requirements needed. I am new to OCR, thus it took time for me searching for the best format. With Cogniview PDF2XL OCR Evaluation, I was convinced to purchased the software. I will be contacting the team prior to expiry of the evaluation version.
Alcuino on May 25th, 2011 8:04 am

PDF to Excel has a simple interface which does not require any learning curve and perfectly suitable for immediate use and output. It converts beautifully with a lot of flexibility to create and modify tables. This application is the leader and excels at what it does.
Claude on May 26th, 2011 1:05 am

I spent a significant sum of money in expensive programs such as Adobe PRO X, Nuance Omnipage PRO, I.R.I.S. Applications and a bunch of others. It took hours to edit the results into a usable Excel file.
Cogniview’s program is easy to use and saves me hours of work. Most importantly, however, is the swift and complete support that I got from Cogniview’s Hadar any and every time I asked for help. I only wish I’d learned about Cogniview’s programs years ago.
Ron Benn on May 30th, 2011 4:14 pm

Great tool. By allowing us to convert .pdf files to Excel we can analyze data that was previously virtually impossible to parse/sort, due to the large size of the underlying .pdf file.
Debbye on June 3rd, 2011 8:56 pm

FINALLY!! I have tried soooo many downloads that supposedly convert scanned pdf files to excel files. Your software seems to be THE one that actually does this. THANK YOU!!!!

That said, I’m definitely planning on buying this software!

Thank you!!
Rich Y on June 8th, 2011 1:46 pm

Impressed at how easy to use the product to convert pdf to excel. So user friendly and fast.
Tried to look for other similar product, but couldn’t find any. Now spent good money for a good product. Already did 2 major converison, if you looking for a pdf convert to excel…this is the one for you. Any you can try it first, TRY before you Buy. How can you lose.
Thank’s for the ease of usage.. SOOOO EASY to use!
John Reilly on June 8th, 2011 9:00 pm

Just started using the program. It seems to work fine. Purchased the Enterprise version with the CD backup. I told Brooke that I would be buying another computer in 2 months. I did. Had a heck of a time getting it loaded on the new machine. CD appears to be of no real value although it costs extra. People on the phone are all very pleasant although it is impossible to talk to technical support. Technical support was prompt but it does not appear that customer problems are not “tracked or noted” as I had to send about a dozen emails to get the program activated.
DON JOHNSON on June 9th, 2011 7:55 am

My credit card provider only provides online statements in pdf form. I wanted to use Excel to record all credit card transactions but could not find a converter that would do the job. I tried the one from Nitro and the one from CNET. They both produced jibberish. Cogniview’s program worked perfectly the first time I tried it. I understand now that my pdf file was a scanned document and most converters can’t read the scanned data. I bought the Enterprise version so I can work with screens as well as files. This program is well worth the money!
Annie on June 9th, 2011 10:39 pm

Thank you so much for offering this program! It’s easy to use and is a HUGE time saver!

Thank you again!
Annie
Wayne Gilmartin on June 13th, 2011 10:13 am

Of all the PDF converters I trialled this is by far the best. Although I only downloaded it yesterday I am finding it easy to use. I am still working out if I can convert multipul tables that have text between them or if I have to convert them one at a time. All in all it’s a great tool that will save me heaps of time.
Suneeta on June 14th, 2011 3:54 pm

It is very fast and quick resulted software. I feel easy to use. And very fast response am getting for the downloading and verification. I have converted my PDF accounting data into Excel.

But only i am feeling difficult with column separation. There is a column with code number besides with Name. Both are included in the same column. I tried to separate with “Delimited” command. But it is not working.

However it helped me me a lot.

Many Thanks
Suneeta
Luigi on June 14th, 2011 7:40 pm

It is very easy to change format from pdf to xls version. Many thanks
Luigi
Ron Millette on June 15th, 2011 9:41 pm

Just did 2 PDF files. Absolutely GREAT so easy a great time saver to manuall coping the information over to an excel also no chance of errors in transcrbing
Thanks for a great software
John Nicol on June 16th, 2011 4:14 pm

Have bee trying to find a good conerter for pdf to excel and word. Tried several including Nitro but then came across pdf2XL and have just completed the conversion of several quite large and complex files which had about 8 columns to format. This program was easy to use and very very quick in making the conversiona which came out correctly every time. Thank you. John Nicol
Deepak Nighoskar on June 21st, 2011 5:39 pm

Good part of the tool is that it empowers the user with the flexibility to make necessary adjustments in the data format, the re-work required in converted data is minimal.
Sam on June 21st, 2011 7:14 pm

Really nice software. Helped me making the work a lot more easier. Thanks!
Scott Quinn on June 21st, 2011 9:36 pm

Excellent Software. I use it to convert literally THOUSANDS and thousands of reports from PDF to Excel so we can get survey data back into a format we can use in order to provide healthcare organizations with a better and more detailed look at their survey results. The amount f time and effort saved because of PDF2XL is absolutely incredible. Thanks Cogniview!
-scott
Laura on June 24th, 2011 4:48 pm

I used to spend hours converting a pdf bid sheet into an excel file for ordering supplies and managing inventory! With the help of this program I was able to do it all in about 30 minutes. I tried other programs that did not do what they promised… this program was everything it promised and more! I would strongly recommend it to anyone.
Leslie G on June 25th, 2011 7:10 pm

Awesome, saved lots of work….
CAROLINE on June 27th, 2011 9:40 pm

THANK YOU VERY MUCH. I TRIED PDF CONVERSIONS FROM OTHER SITES AND HAD PROBLEMS. THIS PROGRAM WAS A LOT EASIER, ESPECIALLY FOR A SENIOR. THANK YOU FOR LETTING REALLY TRY FOR FREE.
RAJAGOPALAN on July 1st, 2011 6:38 am

VERY INTERESTING.

GOOD AND CONVENIENT.

THANK YOU.
Mmaphefo on July 6th, 2011 4:44 pm

This is a very interesting development, congratulataions. I just downloaded 16 pages of a module however i had to do page by page download. maybe i did not follow the correct instructions.
Mmaphefo on July 6th, 2011 4:45 pm

This is a very interesting development, congratulataions. I just converted 16 pages of a module however i had to do page by page conversion. maybe i did not follow the correct instructions.
edmond on July 8th, 2011 5:27 am

Yes…..it is an excellent PDF to Excel Converter.
No need to type it manually. In just a few seconds you’re done converting.

Thanks a lot….
edmond on July 8th, 2011 5:30 am

Yes, it is an excellent PDF to Excel converter. In just a few seconds, you,re done…it really do saves time.

Thanks
John on July 12th, 2011 2:54 pm

This is a MUST HAVE for those needing to convert large PDF files to Excel – saved us tons of money and man-hours!
Robert on July 12th, 2011 4:43 pm

We purchased your product to update our inventory prices. We converted a 122 page PDF vendor price file to excel instantly and had the new prices for 15,000 items updated in our inventory system in less than 20 minutes. In the past it took several days to do the job. It is a wonderful product and I highly recommend it!
Matthew on July 13th, 2011 1:12 am

We purchased this product to convert 450 pages of invoices so that we could reconcile and send back. I have never seen a PDF converter that allows the grid to be adjustable. I was able to finish all of this work before 6:30pm, the first time it was finished in one day. Thank you PDF2XL! Cogniview sure knows how to build a great program.
Jason on July 14th, 2011 4:01 pm

I’ve been working on evaluating the life of life of the F/A-18 A-D aircraft. One of the things that I have to do is convert literally thousands of pages of wiring data to a spreadsheet so we can transfer it to a database for analysis.

I tried other ‘demo’ conversion programs out there and none of them really did the job well, they would leave headers in the files, also they just wouldn’t get the columns of data lined up correcly
Jason on July 14th, 2011 4:09 pm

I work for the Navy an an Engineer and I’ve been working on evaluating the life extension of the F/A-18 A-D aircraft. In order to do this project one of the things that I have to do is convert literally thousands of pages of wiring data to a spreadsheet, so we can transfer it to a database for analysis.

I tried other ‘demo’ conversion programs out there and none of them really did the job well, they would leave headers in the files, also they just wouldn’t get the columns of data lined up correcly.

Luckily for me I found your software through a google search and to say that I’m impressed would be an understatement. In fact I’m soo impressed that I purchased the software with my own funds and am using it for the project. It makes the job fun to do and I really feel that I’m contributing to the safety security of the Warfighter.

Also the ten page evauation limit was perfect it really demonstrated the power of the software.
Deb Vosejpka on July 15th, 2011 1:49 am

God bless you for developing this amazing program! As a list broker and database junky, I frequently acquire business lists and licensing files that are only provided in in pdf format.

The thought of retyping it was overwhelming and daunting. I took a chance by searching the conversion on google and came across a white page author promoting your product. I downloaded the trial and within minutes saw the benefit this software offers and immediately purchased the full version. Thank you so much for filling this need. I look forward to the updates.

Deb Vosejpka
President/CEO

P.S. Your staff were very helpful too.
shariq suri on July 15th, 2011 5:10 am

Oh my god, this is just incredible. I heard about this in office and coincidentally I was in desparate need to convert a 80 page pdf document table into excel so I thought i would see what it can do. I came to the website with the mindset of just another one of those amateur softwares that would have limitations not do what i want but still get me some where…any where…better than creating manually. But to my surprise it was so incredibly user friendly, easy to download, easy to set and it even gave tips as you progressed in the settings.

To me this is the most incredible software I have yet seem with amazing utility.

You bet I am going to spread the word and believe people will listen. I am a finance professional and so playing with excel and pdf files is always a necessity.

Bless you and by god I just cant believe my eyes.
Brian on July 15th, 2011 10:45 pm

I have searched for months trying to find an OCR program to convert PDF documents to EXCEL. This program by far has more versatility and recognizes more characters than others I have tried. Well worth the purchase!
Andrew on July 19th, 2011 2:11 am

We found the software but our IS dept was reluctant to install it as we have Adobe Acrobat. However, once they compared the two, they said it was a no brainer and ordered PDF2XL straight away. We haven’t looked back.
Catherine Laplace on July 19th, 2011 10:52 pm

I was looking to convert a very large PDF file into tab delimited tables and had tried many many save or export “options” and softwares. Found this software looking for ” help” online, downloaded and very quickly managed to achieve my goal. Very easy to use!
james lockie on July 21st, 2011 7:45 am

great product
tried 5 competitors
and this is the first one that worked
fantastic
i will buy it
Mahesh on July 21st, 2011 3:48 pm

This is an amazing tool especially considering the fact that most of us struggle to capture the data in a scanned document and hence start entering data manually.
The ease and speed with which Congiview’s tool helps is indeed remarkable and just another step to making work for relaxing.
John Constantino on July 23rd, 2011 5:55 am

I have purchased this product before and it was the best conversion program I had found. Since I had to replace the operating system in my computer, I had to buy the new addition of enterprise. It is excellent when it comes to converte a large (100 pgs+) PDF file to excel.
Ann Marie on July 26th, 2011 2:54 pm

Great product. My company started out purchasing this product for me to accomplish a specific task for a specific account and we have found that it is universal. This product has assisted me in helping all of my team members who never knew a product like this existed and are now asking questions and sending me files to see how and if the product will accomplish what they were previously entering manually. It pays for itself in the time savings alone. And its fun to use, simple, no long instructions, user friendly. I am always trying to find big files, I ask for them, just to watch the conversions.
Steve Nikolovski on July 26th, 2011 6:54 pm

I have used PDF2XL for over 6 years and it has saved us so many times. I wish every software product provide so much value for such little cost! Recently we had a scanned document come in so I needed to upgrade to Enterprise Edition. We took advantage of the July sale and are ready to go!
Michael Jones on July 26th, 2011 7:51 pm

Converting scanned billing information into excel spreadsheets is essential to establish my customers’ benchmark spend. I can then set about finding cheaper suppliers for them.

PDF2XL was recommended by a colleague. The application did most of what I expected. It recognised that I was working on scanned material and installed the OCR extension automatically.

I spent a little too long adjusting the columns and top/bottom rows to be 100% happy, but the app did a good job without too many errors. I’d give it 8.5/10
Mark Walker on July 26th, 2011 11:45 pm

Strong Technical sells to and services motion picture theater equipment. On a daily basis, we take 50 to 100 orders for projector light bulbs alone from one theater chain. All the orders arrive in PDF format. Processing these orders takes a full time person anywhere from 6 to 8 hours a day.

I evaluated almost all of the PDF conversion tools on the market. I stopped evaluating once I got to PDF2XL. This tool is exactly what I need to break out the data in a consistent manner from the PDF purchase orders into a format I can feed into my accounting system and automate this particular purchase order process.

Once I have this finished, I will regain 6 to 8 hours a day back from a manual process. Payback on this product is going to be about 30 minutes. Not days, minutes.

An excellent product and a lifesaver for the poor soul who had to enter these purchase orders manually!

Thanks Cogniview!!!
Herb on July 29th, 2011 4:33 am

Hello,

Tried the product for the first time.

It really is a neat product, however, I do have a few suggestions.

When the file is converted, it would be nice if you have the option to retain the original layout of the pdf file. It helps users like me to search out and extract the data that I am looking for visually. This helps especially when it is a voluminous file, to be able to relate the visual positioning of the file and then get working on the file that is laid out in rows. I do not know but this is how some people work, convert visually first then tabular data for extraction.

Thanks
José Paraluppi on August 1st, 2011 3:03 pm

excelente, economizei muito tempo transformando minhas tabela do PDF para excel
Elender Góis Gallas on August 3rd, 2011 10:35 pm

Wow! this productis amazing!it hassaved me a lot of time. I have a pdf document with a lot of data that shoul be inserted in a excel table. tehe proggram solved the problem perfectly!

Versãoemportuguês:omelhor programa pra pegar dados de pdfs e agrupar em colunas do excel, além de ser fácil de usar!
Don Rohweller on August 4th, 2011 11:56 pm

PDF2XL Enterprise allowed me to finally convert a scanned pdf with mixed image elements and OCR alpha-numeric data to Excel. The process was fast, intuitive, and remarkably easy. I perform treasurer duties for my church and must translate 16 pages of payroll data monthly. This will save me hundreds of hours of effort over the next year and beyond. Wonderful program!
周星骋 on August 8th, 2011 8:23 am

尊敬的Cogniview所有主创人员：

我来自中国。
感谢Cogniview，您们的PDF2XL软件太好用了，对我的帮助非常大。
是我从网上能搜索到的200多个PDF转Excel中试用出来的最好的一个。
PDF2XL最强、最精准、最专业。

我想请问，可以允许我汉化PDF2XL吗？

2011年8月8日
Yannick on August 9th, 2011 5:20 pm

I was faced with re-typing, in a spreadsheet, a 49-page requirements document published as a PDF in order to track comments and status for each item. I searched, downloaded and tried several software packages that promise PDF to Exel conversion but none of them worked properly; some misinterpreted and even skipped entire pages or rows of data while others simply pasted an image of the table in an Excel spreadsheet. And then I tried PDF2XL. The main advantage of Cogniview’s PDF2XL over its competitors is the level of optional pre-conversion tuning that can take place. This allows the user to help the software correctly identify the columns and tables as well as how rows are defined. PDF2XL can guide the user through this process and will even show a real-time preview of the converted data right within the workspace. In about 20 minutes I was able to install PDF2XL, open the PDF I needed to convert, step through the guide, fine-tune the conversion settings and produce a spreadhseet to share with the team. I then spent a fair bit of time reviewing the document for accuracy and did not find one issue. I am very pleased with the ease of use, accuracy and reliability of PDF2XL and look forward to the next time I am faced with ‘re-typing’ a large table embedded in PDF document!
Paul Metcalf on August 9th, 2011 9:44 pm

This is an easy to use and logical program. We used to have to enter data by hand or create a time consuming Crystal Report in order to evaluate our data. With PDF2XL we convert our PDF reports in a matter of minutes. Saving us hours of time and we are able to create more readable reports.
Stevie Johnson on August 10th, 2011 10:00 pm

Our Finance Department was seriously considering outsourcing payment processing which would impact my job duties tremendously as I am the Finance Associate in A/R. Our IT had one license of PDF2XL and showed me how to use it. WOW! This software accomplishes what we would pay a company to do for us and I can do it myself. WOW! I downloaded the trial and tried it out on several different types of reports that we receive with our donor’s payroll deduction payment checks. I was so excited to tell my supervisor, the Controller, that I can do this! Starting in January we will begin capturing all the detail from payment reports from PDF and importing the Excel file that your amazing product creates. Now I just have to find a scanner for my desk
Matthew Hattingh on August 11th, 2011 5:20 pm

Our company analyses hundreds of pages of telephone billing in order to produce a single proposal.

You have allowed us to take a process that was time consuming and agonizing and made it a pleasure to work with.

We have tried other solutions in the past, but nothing converted the data to Excel with the accuracy you do.

We can now spend our time analyzing the figures instead of working through the night checking them for errors before we even start our proposals.
Arasin Staubly on August 14th, 2011 4:21 pm

I am a Unit Training Manager in the USAF. The online training record system does not automatically load all required training tasks. Instead, we have to verify that all mandatory training items are covered in an office’s training program by manually comparing each job field’s source document (PDF) to a downloaded report from (XLS). That’s at least 20 pages each for 8 career fields – the folks who publish the source document can’t be bothered to format the table so as to allow a cut-and-paste into Excel.

Right now I’m making a trial run for my own use (reformatting promotion study materials), but if this program works as well as I think, I hold out some small hope that I can convince my unit to authorize and buy a copy for long-term use.
Moe on August 16th, 2011 5:33 pm

Every day I have to manually type lists to excel that I have in PDF form which would take hours. I haven’t found a product that can do this automatically.

My only suggestion is for the program to allow a different table selection on each page. The pages in the PDF are generally not uniform and so each page differs in placement (left and right) which makes it hard to export into excel easily.

If you are still working on upgrades I would definitely suggest looking into that functionality.
Matt P on August 16th, 2011 7:37 pm

Awesome. Works great. Just what I was looking for. I looked for couple hours. Thank goodness I found this or I’d still be looking. Really gonna try and get work to purchase this.
Shannon Lee on August 16th, 2011 9:13 pm

I am an office manager/realtor of a real estate sales company. We frequently like to send flyers and/or announcements to all of the agents who subscribe to the multiple listing service. This is a marketing tool we use to help get our new listings or open houses in front of as many realtors as possible.
We recently became members of a new Board, and the membership roster was 9 pages of VERY TINY print in a .pdf document. I had started inputing the data into Excel manually, but this process was so tedious! I had heard of .pdf to Excel conversion programs, but was intimidated and afraid it would take me as long to learn how to use the program as it would to enter the data manually! To my surprise, we downloaded this program and were able to have the entire 9 pages of names, email addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers and offices converted to an excel spreadsheet with correct column formatting. This program is amazing! It took about 15 minutes to watch the tutorials and apply the information. I’m sure we’ll be purchasing the product!!
Jennifer Blake on August 18th, 2011 8:19 pm

After a very frustrating afternoon of trying to convert a very large pdf file I seriously needed….I finally got it done with the help of this product!! Thank you so much for making this available to try. Didn’t take me long to figure out how to do it all and it worked perfectly. I tried 5 other programs today…all a complete fail. I will be buying this program!
Paula on August 18th, 2011 8:53 pm

My task was to straighten out the messed up Accounts Receivable for an oil and gas operator. If you don’t know anything about O&G accounting, let me just say that any one well has a multitude of costs spread across multiple owners, the math of which always goes to at least eight decimal places, and any owner may have interests in up to 40 of the operator’s ~200 wells. (The resulting math on the possible combinations was overwhelming!) There was historical paper and PDF files whose data I desperately needed in Excel in order to analyze. I used PDF2XL on month after month for almost 60 months and was able to accomplish the task. It took over a year with PDF2XL and I’d hate to think how long it would have taken without it! Love the product and have used it on many things since!
A Murugan on August 19th, 2011 2:42 pm

I just downloaded the file and it is quite useful. I used to type more from the hard copies. I used to type for a long time. with this software I can convert the pdf to excel easily and i save more time. I suggested to everyone to try this software which is more worth to the concern and It is a very good software.
Rajesh on August 20th, 2011 9:01 am

It is just very good to work and very easy to work. I just like it. i have just downlode trail ver and that it is. Then what will be the original ver ? Thank to the team
Bryan Miller on August 22nd, 2011 12:16 pm

I have been tasked with capturing spare parts listings from manuals and entering them into a database. About 45 pages of spares in all. Capturing them to Excel is just perfect as we can load the database straight from the Excel sheet.

What is not so perfect is where the data is in scanned PDF files and whilst PDF2XL has a good go, it needs much more manual intervention because the line spacing is not consistent with scanned files.

It would be useful if you could easily build your own row column matrix within a table border, using point and click.
Jessie on August 24th, 2011 6:30 pm

This software is so easy to use. I was able to convert a 10 page bill in seconds from a pieces of paper to something I can actually use.
Jana on August 25th, 2011 12:22 pm

Great tool, I am impressed how much time i can save with such a simple change and it was just a small investment for my company.

I can really recommend PDF2XL from cogniview.
Denise on August 29th, 2011 8:20 pm

I have Able2Extract at work and needed an extractor at home too. . .I think they are the top competetor to PDF2XL and I like this one A LOT better. The preview makes a huge difference and the output is formatted in a very simple and basic way – ready to use!
Jesse on August 31st, 2011 2:42 pm

I was able to use to save one of my clients hours of repeat work. Thank you and we will definitely be purchasing it!
Stuart on September 1st, 2011 8:19 pm

The PDF converter is truly a time saver, everyone who deals with extensive amount of data and who later needs to be exported into an excel spreadsheet could save precious time that is needed in the Financial World in which time is critical. This translates into having more time for analysis of the data or focus on other important activities that couldn’t be done because of time limitations.
Stephen on September 1st, 2011 9:08 pm

I’ve be frustrated with my phone bills, trying to understand how the charges are calculated and whether there are ways to save money. Converting the PDF statements to Excel enabled me to analyze the data and implement savings strategies.
Ed Promin on September 3rd, 2011 11:24 pm

This is an amazing program! I lost my photo database with several hundred detailed descriptions of my antique Civil War Uniform Buttons. By dumb luck I printed the list from my excel spread sheets with some of the information.
I have been able to recover most of the information in a few easy steps. This saved me over 2 years of data collection.
Great Program!
Chocolate Val on September 4th, 2011 8:08 pm

I’ve worked with Acrobat documents using the professional Acrobat X currently. PDF2XL is an essential tool. The native “Save As” spreadsheet option in Acrobat consistently jumbles up even the simplest .pdf data sheet. PDF2XL takes a few mouse clicks and bingo! I have neat, perfectly formatted columns WITH headings in the correct places. BEST add on to Acrobat at any price.
Ken Blakie on September 6th, 2011 3:30 am

PDF2XL allowed us to convert a 104 page motor vehicle parts invoice into a csv file to upload into our software saving hours of keying time. A couple more tests on other documents and I was totally hooked. This is a wonderful product which will save our company many hours of unproductive keying time in the future.
Bate Bate on September 6th, 2011 11:55 pm

My administrative assistant is out on vacation and I need to perform some data entry tasks. Hence I needed a quick and easy software to convert PDF docs to Excel. PDF2XL worked just fine. Easy to download and install. Worked great on the first try – tutorial was easy too!
Con: It converted the tables well but grouped similarly formated tables/data lines – with same titles – into the same page. I would have prefered to have the conversion done page by page, that way I can better very data integrity.
Cristina Tapia on September 7th, 2011 2:15 am

Hi! I’m very happy since i found PDF2XL!! I’m working very hard on my thesis so… you can imagine the time that i’ve spent with data… this amazing tool have me let use the information faster than if i were doing number by number… it’s easy to use, very “friendly”, i can’t find any disadvantage… well.. just one but in the free trial… it says: seven days.. but in just one day was over.. maybe because of the number of documents..i think i would be better if you specify the number of documents instead of the number of days… thank you anyway!
Sherman on September 9th, 2011 6:37 pm

Downloaded the trial and it installed smoothly. Made a few trial conversions, with varying amounts of success. The problem turned out to be the number of conversion choices available! I was pleasantly surprised with the detail available in the “help”. After using the help to make the right conversion choices for what I need I was able to make very good excel sheets.
One thing that was really nice — one of my PDF’s was a scanned PDF. When the program detected the scanned PDF to automatically loaded the OCR module (not part of the trial I downloaded), and I was again able to make a good excel sheet. NICE.
All-in-all, a good program, does as advertised.
Naoki Ohkubo on September 9th, 2011 10:42 pm

It is easy to convert to Excel, I like it
nan singh on September 9th, 2011 11:34 pm

Using this package for the first time and thrilled with the way it converts my pdf files into excel files with a lot of ease. Thank you
Mike Sentner on September 12th, 2011 7:28 am

I have licensed PDF2XL in the past to convert my bank and credit card statements to excel to simplify management of my business expenses. I recently upgraded my system to Windows 7 and downloaded the latest version of PDF2XL to continue using it to manage my business but, unfortunately, when I try to scroll forward to the 2nd page of the PDF statements in this version of the product it terminates with the following error:

Log Name: Application
Source: Application Error
Date: 9/11/2011 2:49:34 PM
Event ID: 1000
Task Category: (100)
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: MS-PC
Description:
Faulting application name: PDF2XL.EXE, version: 4.12.6.241, time stamp: 0x4e511eed
Faulting module name: PDF2XL.EXE, version: 4.12.6.241, time stamp: 0x4e511eed
Exception code: 0xc0000417
Fault offset: 0x00180dbd
Faulting process id: 0x1bc8
Faulting application start time: 0x01cc70b2eb30a1db
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\Cogniview\PDF2XL\PDF2XL.EXE
Faulting module path: C:\Program Files\Cogniview\PDF2XL\PDF2XL.EXE
Report Id: ca16a75b-dca6-11e0-83a7-0018f362bb7b
Event Xml:

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Mohammed Rafiq on September 12th, 2011 6:44 pm

Perhaps the best thing I can say by far about PDF2XL OCR is the ability to create custom layout and more than that is to save and preserve it so that the repeatitive tasks are…… what can I say I have no words it has made life so much easier and it is not just some another OCR where you have to check everytime I have found ABSOLUTELY ZERO mistakes in Optical Character Recognition Now for the the real thing. You have features to create Table layouts and Fields Layout, Now why not add some .dbf format export Huh!? Give it a thought it will really make this product unique in the market
Jesse on September 15th, 2011 5:56 am

I downloaded the trial version in order to convert a very large invoice from PDF into Excel – it saved me heaps of time replicating the information. Then when I saw it could do other Microsoft programmes I got really excited and have applied to the IT Manager for a purchase copy. Easy to use with a very good tutorial – thank you for such a great program.
Marie Brewer on September 16th, 2011 7:06 pm

Great program …. very user freindly.
I Made Mudita on September 18th, 2011 5:33 pm

I downloaded the trial version in order to convert a PDF to excel, then after trying it, I order, so I could convert very large PDF file (21000 pages!) into Excel – it saved me a lots of time.
As programmer, previously I need to save the PDF to text file and create a program to parsing the text file, it takes a lots of time, since frequently the text are scramble – thank you for a great program.
Lisa Saucier on September 21st, 2011 6:22 pm

I downloaded this program because I receive a lot of douments that I need to covert to Excel. This program is great! It’s quick & easy! I would highly recommend it!
SRIHARI on September 22nd, 2011 6:56 pm

GOOD
Stefan Draghescu on September 25th, 2011 9:45 pm

You guys have done an outstanding job ! I’m happy I managed to find such a program because it is very easy to use and the conversion is flawless. I congratulate you for putting effort into creating something that would spare people a lot of time. Nice job!
Best of luck,
Stefan
Alan on September 26th, 2011 3:33 am

I tested your product against 5 other ones. They ranged in cost from free to $130.00 for basic feature. The only one that came close to yours was the $130.00 one but still fell short in capability to yours. I am a solutions provider for small businesses 1 to 20 employees. Most of my clients get dozens to hundreds of PDF documents that need to be converted to excel format. I believe your product line is the best choice at a very reasonable price.

I would like one feature added that two of you competors have is the ability to remove a column line in addition to the split feature. It was an easy fix when the doc was converted to excel to just delete the column but if you can do it before the conversion why not.
guy on September 27th, 2011 10:32 am

Alan, thank you for your comment.

I’d like to point you to the ‘Merge’ command in the Selection menu, which allows you to delete the column line just like you wanted: select the columns you wish to merge and use the command.

More on this command can be found here:
http://www.cogniview.com/help/pdf2xl/html/DeletingColumn.php
raju on September 28th, 2011 9:45 am

Your product is like giving water to person who is travelling in deseart area. it’s like giving mobile to person aho still uses landline. so i just wanna thank’s the pdf2XL for increasing of my speed of work. it’s very useful to me to complete all my work on time…
Ali on October 1st, 2011 12:14 pm

it’s very useful to me to complete all my work on time…
George Sexton on October 2nd, 2011 7:19 pm

I am not very computer literate but I needed to convert my credit card statements (PDF) into Excel. I tried several programs but all were too confusing for me. With this program I was able to do exactly what I needed the first time. I watched the demo tutorial and it was a breeze. Great program !!!!
kathleen on October 5th, 2011 6:35 pm

This just saved me hours of handtyping 9 pages of text into an excel spreadsheet. so easy to use. possibly my new fav software!
Adam Stone on October 7th, 2011 1:24 am

Software works great, this will save hundreds of hours a year on the data acquisition side of our company.
Mohammed Rafiq on October 7th, 2011 8:22 pm

I am suffering from Parkinsons Disease, PDF2XLOCR just gave me an opportunity to have a decent life I can’t type properly due to shakky hands. But recently I got a chance to work at home by getting a contract from one big company which unfortunately had some problems with database corruption. Fortunately they had hard copies of the old data I use windows 7 and PDF2XLOCR by using voice commands and converting the data, so far smooth sailing BEST THING TO HAPPEN TO AN OLD MAN

Thank you everybody at COGNIVIEW
Lucas on October 7th, 2011 9:41 pm

I receive a lot of files in pdf, i have tried many programs that turn pdf into excel and i can say for sure that this is the best i ever tried.
Keep the good work.
Perry on October 8th, 2011 3:48 am

I have tried lots of different PDF to Excel conversion programs but none gives results anywhere nearly as quickly and accurate as Cogniview’s solution! Thank you very much!
tharma on October 9th, 2011 2:12 am

in simple words., it is wonderful, saves lot to time
Roberto on October 10th, 2011 1:07 am

Thanks a lot for this great piece of software!
In the last few days a tried a dozen of software because I have three huge pdf files with one large table each to convert.
What no other software was able to do is to (semi-)automatically understand the table format, which changes from page to page and that has a varying line height and column width.
With PDF2XL in single-layout I defined the table size for each page; then, by selecting all rows of the first page I selected the Table Layouts –> Rows from Lines: this resulted in an perfect reconstruction of the table text. Finally, by activating the “Multiple Layouts”, I fine tuned every page table sizes.
The export to Open document and Excel spreadsheet was only one click.

100s of hours cut to a few minutes: great!
shyam on October 10th, 2011 10:21 am

it is awsome and its a great experience… u guys have made our job easy.
Megan on October 11th, 2011 4:35 pm

Fabulous! I received a file of multiple pages of a scanned table in pdf. I needed to be able to extract the data into a table for analysis, but wasn’t sure anything was going to work. I downloaded the trial and gave it a try – AWESOME! It as very easy to use (the directions step by step on the left pane were critical). I LOVE the fact that I was able to select the option to convert multiple pages at once. At first I thought I would have to convert each page one by one, but nope! SAVED ME SOOOOO MUCH TIME! I love this and will look into buying the full version!
Randy Norman on October 11th, 2011 10:27 pm

In preparation for a show where I am going to exhibit, I received a list of names that had attended the show last year from a partner company. It was 28 pages and a PDF. My plan was to e-mail each person inviting them to visit our booth. Manually this was going to take a long time, so I started looking for help.

I reviwed several products on the web and downloaded two for evaluation. I found serious limitations with the first one. From what I read and my initial review, PDF2XL looked good. I began the process and got stumped. I sent an e-mail to support. Within a few hours I had a reply with detailed instructions and a sample using my data. The next day I got a followup call asking if I needed more help. I said “no” but got stuck again. I e-mailed again and got a call within an hour. The support person was very patient and knowledgeable and walked me through the process to a successful conclusion. Good product with great support.
David on October 13th, 2011 1:09 am

We needed our bank history of the last 4 months in Excel format, but the bank history would only go back 60 days. Thanks to your program, opening the 4 months’ bank statements and converting was a snap.
carlo on October 13th, 2011 5:33 pm

Hi
this is great! It’s really what I needed for my inventory charts. Congratulations!!!
John on October 17th, 2011 11:57 pm

Finally! A program that works consistently. I haven’t yet found a file that it can’t convert.
Jim H on October 18th, 2011 2:29 am

Awesome software. Wasn’t even looking to use it myself. Thanks!
Shawn Kepfer on October 18th, 2011 6:07 pm

As a bill of materials specialist Excel spreadsheets are very crucial to my job since they are primarily what our software will import/export. It is fairly common for us to receive a bill of materials from a customer in PDF form which instantly slows me down since I end up going through line by line and copying into Excel. I have tried numerous demos of other Excel converters and PDF2Excel has proven to be the easiest and most efficient. Some that I have tried will not even convert over in any type of manageable order, PDF2Excel worked perfectly on my very first try. If given the approval from my boss our company will potentially be purchasing PDF2Excel. Great product.
Ted Savides on October 18th, 2011 9:54 pm

I am a systems analyst who was tasked by my employer with testing and evaluating all major PDF to Excel conversion products. I tested twenty-three products according to these criteria:

1. All products tested needed to at least convert PDF documents to editable Excel spreadsheets.
2. Applications were tested for ease of use.
3. Applications were tested for the accuracy with which they converted the input .PDF document to an Excel format.
4. Additional application functionality was recorded.
5. Additional information–such as product pricing, product security features, and quality of customer service/support–was recorded and factored into the product evaluation.

I spent two weeks testing and rank-ordering the twenty-three PDF conversion products. Next, I wrote a report of my results, and sent it to my employer’s Administrative Support department. They then tested the products to which my report assigned an “A” ranking.

Cogniview’s PDF-to-Excel suite of products was the clear winner of this painstaking process. My company’s human resources and information services departments purchased several PDF2XL licenses. Our Administrative Support department also purchased PDF2XL OCR licenses, as they needed the additional functionality that tool provides for converting scanned PDF files.

We have been delighted with our investment. No other line of PDF conversion products matches Cogniview’s for price, ease-of-use, conversion accuracy, and customer service/support.
Lang on October 18th, 2011 11:29 pm

I have not had any luck with this product. Tax Season is here and I thought we had a Blessing here but NOT!
Tony Pillay on October 19th, 2011 12:13 am

Have tried it once and I am looking forward to access a number of resources which I will use to improve documentation and templates
J. B. on October 21st, 2011 4:01 am

I have only had this trial version for less than 20 minutes and I am so happy to share. I was able to complete a conversion in moments whereas previously, I was had already spent 2 days retyping, correcting, parsing, and searching the Internet for help–which of course never worked for the problems I was having.

Then I saw this product in the sidebar on a website and thought I’d check it out. After watching the video – I knew I had a winner!

Not to mention, it was great fun, too!
Bev Kiecker on October 21st, 2011 7:02 pm

I started trying other conversion tools and was not happy. We have to take several hundred pages of a pdf and convert it to excel. Some programs only copied an image onto the excel – not actually in the cells! This program did an amazing job on the selected 6 pages I tried. I am sold on this one.
Gregg Carstens on October 25th, 2011 11:58 pm

Prior to using pdf to excel I created conversion functions in excel with text formulas. Until I found pdf to excel, other products made too many errors and were not much less work than what I had been doing. I already had solutions to converting XML and delimited files to database format. This product will fill the gap for converting pdf format only reports and save hundreds of hours for several other associates that now can be applied to smarter work. Thanks for helping me make a noticeable impact at my company.
Marci Fermier on October 26th, 2011 1:43 am

I was just hired to a new job with the task of placing hundreds of vendor price sheets into Excel, so they could be imported into new sales & inventory software. A vast majority of these price sheets are supplied in PDF format, and until now, the only option for importing them was either an excruciating process of copy/pasting, or simply re-typing. Everything. Then I was introduced to PDF2XL. To call it a lifesaver would be an understatement – thank you for saving my sanity!
Caryn Morgan on October 27th, 2011 6:07 pm

Amazing – I had data that was useless in PDF format because I needed to manipulate it and copying & pasting lost all columns. PDF2XL was fast, easy, intuitive and got my data in a usable format. I was able to convert many pages at a time of only what I needed (able to exclude routing headers, etc.)
David O'Connell on October 28th, 2011 1:56 pm

I was preparing my End-of-Year accounts (31 October here!), when I found that I needed to use my bank statements. Unfortunately, these are all in PDF format. Copy-paste didn’t work- the column details were lost. A Google search turned up a couple of solutions, one of which was PDF2XL.

When I installed it on a PC I was greatly impressed- the conversion was flawless. The only drawback for me was that there’s no Mac version- I’ve installed it on a PC in work, but will have to uninstall as soon as I’m finished.

If there was a Mac version, I’d buy it instantly
Rajeev on October 28th, 2011 9:53 pm

As a financial analyst, I have used this program to convert financial data in tables in PDF documents to excel for easier analysis. It has saved me a lot of time in typing out numbers and has generally produced good results. There are several small features such as the ability to move columns that make it easy to understand and use. I would recommend it to any of my friends/co-workers.

I have tried out a couple of other programs but none of them had such high-quality results.
Tamara on October 31st, 2011 9:04 pm

I’m a new customer. It is easy to use and when I need to contact customer service they are friendly and respond quickly.
Alfred Dawood on October 31st, 2011 9:09 pm

it convert the pdf to word easily
sherin on November 1st, 2011 8:55 am

ABsolutellyy amazing !!
Ray on November 2nd, 2011 6:22 pm

I wish all software was as intuitive and functional as this.
Denise on November 4th, 2011 6:58 pm

I was very excited to see my 29 page text document “magically” change from PBF/Text to columns in less than 15 seconds. No more copying and pasting page after page.
Denise on November 4th, 2011 6:58 pm

I was very excited to see my 29 page text document “magically” change from PDF/Text to columns in less than 15 seconds. No more copying and pasting page after page.
Jerry Krull on November 5th, 2011 7:32 pm

I invest in Real Estate Tax Liens. Tax Liens are sold through auctions by counties. Every county has a different system. The list of Liens for sale can be a few hundred to over 30,000 liens in one auction.

The liens are on properties where the owner has not paid their annual taxes. So the county waits until the last minute to publish the liens that will be for sale. Most are published only a few weeks before the auction. You don’t have much time to sort through the list to determine which ones to bid on.

The most popular way a list of liens are published is by PDF files. To do analysis on a list of 30,000 liens using a PDF file is an impossible task.

A couple of years ago I did a search on “convert PDF to spreadsheet software” and Cogniview’s PDF2XL product was on the first page (good SEO Cognivew!).

I downloaded the trial version and ran it for a county list of 2,500 liens. It worked like a charm and was intuitive to use.

I had a spreadsheet in minutes and I was able to filter and maipulate my data so I could create a bidding strategy that allowed me to win several liens in that auction.

I saved about 20 hours of work with PDF2XL for that one county alone. I recently bought PDF2XLOCR because many counties publish a scanned list as a PDF.

I have developed my spreadsheet methods so much that I have recently written a book about using spreadsheets for viewing past online tax lien auction history to create a Bid Strategy for the current tax lien auction.

I am recommending Cogniveiw’s PDF2XL in that book and soon on my website. Today I’m creating a video showing how easy the software works for investors to use on PDF tax lien lists.

Great product Cogniview!

Jerry Krull
Author – The Book on Online Tax Lien Bid Analysis
Laron on November 8th, 2011 7:19 pm

I had to convert a pdf to excel for my full-time job. I have one website that I frequently use because it is quick, easy and free. You get what you pay for, and this file I had was not able to be converted. I downloaded the trial of Cogniview, not expecting much.

It converted the three pages in seconds with only a little cleanup. There were a few things it put question marks onm but it was simple to compare it to the pdf, and change what needed to be changed.

I’m evaluating a product for me to use in my job every day, and after using Cogniview, I’m suitably impressed, and will put it at the top of the list of products I’m evaluating for purchase.

Thank you for a great product, and saving me hours of manual work.
Perry on November 8th, 2011 8:28 pm

Good product – it has saved me hours of time. The OCR is the most accurate that I have found.

PDF2XL is quick and easy to use.

It is well worth the price! I recommend PDF2XL to anyone who needs to convert PDF files to Excel or Word.
Matt on November 14th, 2011 8:07 pm

PDF2XL is truly one of the most innovative programs I’ve ever purchased. I work in the insurance industry and work with over 40 sales agencies in five states. We process approximately $400k in new business premium per month and process about $100k in payroll commissions. The challenge we’ve had is each company who we sell through sends commission statements in different formats. Some are PDF, and others are hard copy that are actually mailed to us which we have to scan. Up until PDF2XL, we’ve had to manually type data into EXCEL. Not anymore!!! This literally has saved us 15-20 hours in processing. The money and time we have been able to save has allowed us to hire more staff. Great program. I can’t thank you enough…especially since it is soooo easy to use! I did’t even have to read the instructions. My kind of software! (: Plug and play! Serious…sounds too good to be true…it’s not! Buy it NOW! Get your life back! Allocate your time to things that make you money. We love it! Thank you!!!

Best wishes,
Matt Amack
President/CEO
Insurance Producers Network, Inc.
Chuck Munden on November 16th, 2011 3:53 am

After trying numerous PDF conversion apps, PDF2XL is by far the best application out there.

I was spending hours converting PDF files to Excel formats. Either the initial conversion never transferred over all of the information, or the formatting transferred over incorrectly. It was very frustrating, and time consuming cleaning up the unfinished file.

I am not “techie” by any means, and was looking for a program that was easy to use and intuitive. Most of the applications I found required the user to to have a post-doctorate degree in computer science in order to understand the functions that worked the application.

Thanks for creating a PDF Conversion application that is ready to use when installed. You saved me and my company many man-hours with this application.

Keep up the good work.

Chuck Munden
Director of Bookstore Sales
BookRenter Store Services
Eric H on November 17th, 2011 6:57 pm

I have tried multiple coversion tools for scanned PDF douments to be converted into Excel format. I first tried PDF2XL then moved onto the next program Google suggested to try. I did not have as much luck with two of the other programs out there and decided to go back to the PDF2XL program and purchase it. I am working on a large project at a University in the state of Connecticut where I have to file daily reports regarding this project. Some of the data I have for this project was compiled by another company, which was handy to have, but typing into Excel all 1000 points of this file became WAY too tedious. No one in my office had a program that converted SCANNED PDF documents into excel, only a program that converted PDF documents originally created by PDF. That was when my search began. I have been using this program, PDF2XL for about a month now and I have found it helps emmensly! I still have to do editing of the conversions since some of the scans I am working with are not the best and I think the conversion “engine” struggles with the data. But even with having to make the corrections, there is still a lot of time that I have saved using this product. I would reccomend it to someone else that is trying to do the same type of work, it is super handy!
Simon Buhagiar on November 18th, 2011 1:24 am

I am a senior estimator for a commercial door manufacture and in this day of age i get a lot of schedules as PDF files. This fantastic software saves me hours of typing so i can get alot more done in a day.
This prgrame is very easy to use, you don’t have to be an expert to use it.
Heather R on November 22nd, 2011 12:50 am

A wonderful tool! Every other conversion program I have tried refused to correctly match the columns as needed. But PDF2XL actually let me change the columns as needed – merging in some areas and splitting others.

In my job I combined data from a variety of programs for management to review – some are legacy programs that cannot provide data in any format other than print. PDF2XL saves the time of trying to retype the – so I can take the raw numbers and link them into the proper tables. Thank you for this great tool!
Patricia Perez on November 22nd, 2011 6:20 pm

Tengo un día de haberlo bajado, y me pareció EXCELENTE, a diferencia de otros convertidores que he probado, este es facil de usar, que es basicamente lo que se busca en primera instancia, y efectivo.
Lo recomiendo para su opcion de COMPRA … es mejor de los que se encuentran en la red.

Gracias.
Russ Ertelt on November 23rd, 2011 8:00 pm

I tried and tested many other programs that seemed to offer the same thing but found PDF2XL to offer the most flexibility for insuring that I got the results that I wanted. It will save me time and will provide a great service for my clients. Thanks.
Chang on November 24th, 2011 11:57 am

the use of this software is good.
Ricardo Reis on November 30th, 2011 1:34 am

Fiquei muito surpreso com a eficiência deste programa. Além das várias opções de configuração, ele permite editar o documento, possibilitando usarmos somente a parte que nos interessa.
MUITO BOM!!!! RECOMENTO.

A Very Good tool… Thank you!!
Hamza on December 1st, 2011 9:43 am

The Use Of This Software Is Good.
Easy to Use.
Dan on December 1st, 2011 10:17 am

Yesterday, a 163 page cost invoice was foisted upon me covering a considerable sum. I had no easy way to analyze it until I found your product PDF2XL OCR. Once I got the hang of it, the conversions were generally very good. Now I’m ready to slice and dice that cost data using Excel… fabulous.

The only substantive improvement I would like to suggest is the addition of an “autotrack” feature that will allow PDF2XL’s import table to dynamically resize itself in response to horizontal or vertical skewing or “jitter” (change in alignment) of tabular data between successive pages. This is quite common in documents that are second or third generation faxes/copies.
Nancy on December 1st, 2011 7:55 pm

Love this product. We have many uses for this and having this in our arsenal, will make my job much easier. Thank you!!
Tom Thususka on December 2nd, 2011 9:49 pm

I am impressed with your PDF converter product.

I have tried many products and yours is the only product to correctly convert page 3 of my project.

I have used Nuance PDF Pro 7, Primo PDF Scansoft Omin Page Pro and Able2Extract and have wasted cxonsiderable valuable time trying to get a quality conversion with minimal correction required. Your converter has allowed this to be done with a minimum of work required to polish up the Excel Spreadsheet.

It appears to do what is says it will do.

Thanks
Brandi on December 3rd, 2011 2:12 am

I tried to convert using Adobe and Nuance, but neither worked well. I downloaded your software and it is working much better, but there are still a lot of unrecognized characters showing up when I convert to excel. This is an older document, but all in all I’m impressed with how much it did pick up and translate appropriately. Definitely will be spending more time with the trial to see if it’s something I can better understand and we could use.

Thank you.
Jim Reimink on December 4th, 2011 2:03 am

With a 240 page scanned pdf that has 82 names and addresses per page I needed something to create an editable file that could be used to make a database to use for mailing without having to key the whole mess. PDF2XL proofed to be the best answer to a huge problem. This program convert the pdf not just to xls but to the open source (read free) software Open Office. The only problem I had was that some spaces between words could not be recognized by the software. But otherwise the program saved at least 60-80 hours of computer time. Awesome.
Kathy Roth on December 6th, 2011 1:34 am

I have used this a lot and find that it is very helpful.
Kate on December 6th, 2011 5:44 pm

Easy to use and saves a ton of time on very repetitive data entry work. Very easy to use help and instructions that you follow and use on the fly.
luar lopez on December 7th, 2011 6:01 pm

Genial, facil, prctico es super este programa
Ryan Champney on December 8th, 2011 4:27 pm

I was asked for help by one of our salesman to convert an old quote into excel. The only copy of the quote was a marked up paper copy. We scanned it into PDF and I ran it through a PDF to excel program that I had purchased a while back and I ran into a bunch of problems. I figured I would see if there was anything else out there and I came across Cogniview PDF2XL OCR. It worked perfectly with very little editing! I am putting in a request for PO right now. Thanks for making a product that does the job right.

Ryan C
Pat Leone on December 9th, 2011 2:16 pm

I downloaded my PDF2XL OCR software today – What can I say but “WOW” !

I wondered about the claims you made for your product.

Well, it is all true – easy to use (almost disappointingly easy!), and the results are out of this world! Best of all I have increased my productivity almost ten-fold.

I read a comment on your website to the effect that “is the best tool for you to convert scanned PDFs to Excel.” with great skepticism but I will admit that this product and your customer service team lives up to the promise.

Congratulations on producing a product!
Chuck on December 9th, 2011 7:32 pm

I purchased this product to convert monthly reports that are sent to me in PDF files. I use to have to convert the reports by hand and it would take me days to complete them. This has cut that time to a half hour or less.
Love how well it works
Thank You
G on December 10th, 2011 7:05 am

How do I switch of the pest of an Icon “Claim your free prize now”. Thanks
Supriya Suri on December 13th, 2011 9:33 pm

Was looking for a quick solution in a hurry on the net and found this. Couldn’t believe how easy it was to install and convert. My worries of converting pdfs to excel data are gone starting today!
Fábio on December 15th, 2011 9:59 pm

Very good tool to convert files…
Congratulations!!!
David Morris on December 17th, 2011 7:49 pm

I was in a real pinch! Late on a Saturday morning I got a call from a client that needed some work done immediately. The problem? The client’s data consisted of 127 pages of pdf files. Typing it in manually would have been impossible, and no other program I could find was capable of dealing with that much data. PDF2XL rescued me! That means Saturday afternoon at the park with my family.
sunny on December 20th, 2011 8:51 am

its amazing to use the pdf2xl, it solves all of your query in a min. the best features is that before convert your file u can validate the data and see how many times and what types of error we use to ignore when we use another software but in pdf2xl u can easily monitor such things and with smart work u can easily save time and have accurate data in a min to your pc….
Vijay on December 20th, 2011 9:16 am

Hello,

I tried this programme on one page which is scanned from a print out. This application scanned the image with OCR wonderfully and I have one suggestion if not already built in. This app shoucd have auto correct optin like in windows Word/Excel where is if certain text which is used multiple and it reads incorrectly. e.g. QTG is always read as OTG, the auto correct will always change it to QTG.
This will really make the application user friendly.

Thank yoy
angel on December 20th, 2011 11:15 pm

es una herramienta que facilita el poder realizar de mejor manera mi trabajo. diario.. saludos..
tipu on December 21st, 2011 12:09 am

2011 was wasted in the mechanical drudgery of converting mid-sized PDFs to Excel via copy/paste. From now on, I will have time free to do my real work & let PDF2Xcel handle the drudgery. Kudos on the online documentation. I was able to do what I wanted to within minutes of starting the trial.
Dave on December 21st, 2011 3:57 am

PDF2XL could not be any simpler to use. After watching the tutorial, following the step by step instructions, and using the program on a couple of pdf documents it has become a breeze to fly through pdf document conversions. Simplicity, speed, and accuracy are three of the best words I can use to describe this program.

I am currently working on a project which requires me to take data (most of which is in PDF format) from almost all of the cities within the United States and then convert this data into Excel spreadsheets, so that I can quickly convert this data into a database. This program has literally saved me several hours per day to accomplish these tasks. Several hours per day works out to be a lot of hours saved over the course of a year. Time is money and if your time is as valuable as mine, this program will help you to free up a great deal of time so that you can focus more on making money. I would highly recommend anyone in search of a pdf to excel converter program to give this a try, and I am quite confident you will not be disappointed.

Ps: The preview and table adjustment features of the program are incredibly useful and really take this program to the next level.
Gail Ackermann on December 23rd, 2011 2:20 pm

I quoted a potentail new client on management accounts, they utilise an accounting software system which has no facilities to download directly to excel.
I was able to print all reports to pdf and then using your demo PDF to excel converter I was able to present professional and in depth analysis for the board of directors. I got the job as I was able to reduce the amount of time required for the job thus reducing the monthly fee, additionally I was able to meet thier deadlines as I wasn’t having to type in all the information thanks to your convertor.
Janet Gillespie on December 23rd, 2011 4:00 pm

This product has saved me a ton of time!!
It is easy to use and produces very accurate results. I have tried a couple of PDF to excel conversion programs and this is by far the best one. I like the “Split Here” and “Merge features”. It is very user friendly and easy to learn and use. It didn’t take me any time at all to purchase the version that also handles scanned PDF documents. Great product.
ahmed on December 24th, 2011 12:31 pm

this is realy amizing i was wery happy to have this i will be hoping to buy the full vertion
Glynn alwyn-Jones on December 25th, 2011 6:25 pm

Simple to use for a “computer simpleton like me!!!
Greg on December 27th, 2011 3:39 am

Software is useless because it doesn’t convert anything without having Microsoft Excel or Word installed on the pc
Zeeshan on December 27th, 2011 8:42 am

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
Jaime Roque on December 28th, 2011 7:14 pm

This product is very nice, helpful in many works I need to do. Congrats for your software is very nice, I will buy it…
Stephen on December 30th, 2011 9:14 am

Thank you so much for a very useful and user friendly PDF to Excel conversion software. Quite easy to download and ready to use straight away. I managed to cut down on data capture hours, its awsome! Keep up the good work, and I like your excel tips, they make all the difference in expediting data processing in Excel.

Regards!
David Pydlek on December 30th, 2011 5:19 pm

I have purchased & used Cogniveiw with several companies. Spend analysis is an important value ad we provide. The customer,of course,gives the data to you in many formats. Cogniview allows easy conversion from any format the customer provides (outside of an Excel file) to Excel in minutes. Time is money and the turnaround has been a hallmark of our ability to get infomation back to the customer and conversion of their business.
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joel schaubel on January 2nd, 2012 3:45 pm

For 10 years I had been manually copying and pasting data from pdf files………. so that I could make it work in excel. I recently changed jobs and my successor is not very excel friendly. I needed to find a way to build a template and easily get the data into excel.

I really hope your product was not available over the last 10 years…. It is outstanding. My only regret is that I did not find it sooner!!
David Mangatal on January 5th, 2012 9:18 pm

This product will save me an enormous amount of time. I am responsible for loading data warehouse data for school districts, the source data for which often comes with a PDF layout spec. As opposed to typing in the field positions and descriptions, I can now export to Excel and quickly generate SQL that will read from very large fixed length source data.

I have just started to use the product and am very impressed. Thanks so much for developing this product and I will be sure to provide suggestions for enhancements (if any) the more I use it.
Emily on January 5th, 2012 9:45 pm

I work for a large Pharmaceutical company in Boston and was given the daunting task of retyping a 60 page pdf file into excel. I decided there was no way i was the first person that needed to convert pdf to excel and so i google’d it and found this converter. The job that was supposed to take me a week was done in half a day! Thanks so much!
vicente costa on January 5th, 2012 11:28 pm

I liked although it will not be fluent in English. able to convert a document to excel. 100% like it to be free permanently. is a frustration that has limited time.
Phil K on January 7th, 2012 1:44 am

EXCELLENT. I’m rushing through trying to get all my PDF files converted before the end of the trial peri0d.
This is an AWESOME tool and great time saver.
THANKS!
Noemi M on January 11th, 2012 12:52 am

It IS Amaizing!. It really helps me to save time, I didnt even know it was possible, I tought I would like to have such a usefull tool ad it it this software so I start searching on the web, and eureka! I found the must usefull tool!
Thank you very much from Mexico!

ps. Sorry if my grammar it is not perfect, english is not my first language
Roberto F on January 11th, 2012 2:11 am

This tool is really helpful to me and also to the company.

I will share an example: my last process improvement, was able to reduce an 8 hours weekly boring task from my boss to just 15 minutes of my time. If we transfer it to one year, it will be 400 hours saved (more than USD 12,000 per year).

This was great for me. Thank you pdf2xl.
Aboobakr Sadik on January 11th, 2012 1:27 pm

Excellent product, i bought the pdf2xl OCR, and its does work.. Wow!

I got a little addicted yesterday and did some overtime, i normally work 4 hours a day, i worked 6 hours and guess what i did a weeks work in 6 hours…. thats including find this product on Youtube, downloading, etc. etc So, thats so far so good, lets hope my investment pays off. i bought the full package for $188 waiting for my 10% discount as mentioned on the Youtube Video…..
Brandon Penner on January 11th, 2012 4:34 pm

Using and about to purchase the product for use in a petroleum company. All of our accounting data comes through PDF and this program has made it easy to analyze it in excel.

Many thanks!
Brandon
Kay on January 12th, 2012 7:27 pm

Cogniview PDF2XL OCR just saved my entire week!

I was busy transcribing last years’ scanned documents when I decided to see what alternatives are available. Having found this, I predict a noticeable increase in my productivity, and am about to get to work on our IT department, to see if I can persuade them to buy the full version for the entire business.

Thanks for providing such a useful piece of software, for making it so easy to learn, and for providing a trial version.
Sonia Melendez on January 13th, 2012 6:38 am

Hi, as a AARP Membership Vol. I receive at the beginning of each year, bulky lists of Chapter Memberships. Unfortunately, there is one Chapter, although I ask for it in Excel, they continue yearly sending it in PDF.As others do, I would transfer data. It has been about a month since unfortunatelly I rec. that one, but could not get myself to start transfering. Starting looking, tried another eval. program, but info. was in OCR form. Did not work. Continued looking and TG I did, because I found you, and in ten min. I did about a weeks work worth. Merry Xmas to me and to you. Thanks
Chantal SARGE on January 13th, 2012 2:03 pm

I’m french
the tools is extra but I will prefere a french tools
Alice Ervin on January 14th, 2012 9:42 pm

I have used other ways to convert a PDF to Excel, but Cogniview PDF2XL is the easiest and most accurate method I have found. Even Acrobat Pro can’t do what Cogniview PDF2XL does. Thank you for your product, it will save me many hours of work!
Sheel Grover on January 17th, 2012 8:01 am

My boss gave me a bulky data of loans to reconcile it with bank, and the data was available only in hard copies, now i am in fix how to reconcile it within few hours. than i scan whole the docs, but now the challange was, how to convert it in soft copy excel file to use for reconcilation. than i find PDF to excel convertor from http://www.cogniview.com/convert-pdf-to-excel. really it help me and i got good comments from my boss. he was really amazed how i reconcile the data in few hours.
Rafael Lopes on January 19th, 2012 4:17 pm

Cogniview PDF to XL was great, because it speeds up my work. I get many data files in pdf and I need to pass them to excel spreadsheets. So, it reduced my work time by half at least.
Lynn Heckman on January 19th, 2012 10:36 pm

I have a lot of programs for which I do financial analysis. For some reason the accounting and/or IT departments change the data output streams’ format without regard for users. Recently they changed several reports to output only to PDF. I have several program master financial files which rely on the data output as received by the former Excel output. So with the change to PDF (were they thinking of making the data less accessible?),I was laboriously spending time ALT + select column of data, then pasting in Excel. After a couple of pages I said, “Phooey.” I can’t be the only person who has this problem. Sure enough there are several utilities which boasted help. I chose PDF2XL and love the way it works, the speed and the Excel output. Yay! Thank you very much. — Lynn Heckman
Vincent Chiu on January 20th, 2012 3:44 am

I got the OCR version, which can convert scanned PDF to excel file. I am quite amaze at the result. Although some characters does not come through. I have to review each file, but at the end, it did same me alot of time and effort.

Thanks.
Andrew Erlewein on January 21st, 2012 12:28 am

I used the trail version of PDF2XL OCR to convert a 127 page scanned version of a payment transaction report from our insurance carrier.

The report lists about 30 rows of data on each page and captures paid month, type and amount. All in all I figured that would be over 11,000 individual data elements I would need to enter to get the report into a useful format (assuming no mistakes were made.

PDF2XL OCR converted the data in about a minute, and the review feature showed me the figures that the OCR engine was not sure were correct.

The learning curve for using the software was short and easy, the software is very intuitive.

The OCR engine consistently misinterpreted the type code of “0A” as “DA” so I would’ve like a feature that could establish a rule such as if “DA” found in position 35 convert to “0A” instead. However since the OCR engine consistently converted this to “DA” and that was not a valid type code it was easy to change it back to “0A” in Excel.

I showed my manager the source report and PDF2XL OCR’s results and she approved the purchase on the spot, saving me a bunch of data entry hours.
LUZ ANGELA SUAREZ RUGELES on January 21st, 2012 12:42 am

Que excelente herramienta, muy útil y demasiado practica, vale la pena adquirir la version completa, realmente que satisfaccion encontrar en la web programas tan bien hechos como este.
Ravikumar Gairkapati on January 21st, 2012 12:59 pm

Its not a story its really fact about of easy convertion from pdf.
Debbie Crysup on January 23rd, 2012 8:05 pm

I tried this software nearly a year ago to convert into excel. I had not had a need to do so after that, so didn’t purchase the software. Now I have another document that needs to converted so that one of my managers can use the data to complete his report. This would be extremely time consuming to retype. I see this as a valuable tool and will make the purchase to a full version.
Gerardo on January 24th, 2012 3:57 am

Esta es una buena herramienta, para la convercion de docuementos de excel a pdf y de pdf a excel, es una marvilla, pero como hacer para la conversion de un documento escaneado pdf a excel?
shah on January 25th, 2012 6:26 am

the fastest and best ocr i’ve ever used, simple with less hassle, easy to understand even for my numskull boss and get the job done. that’s the main important thing- getting the job done without so many of the never-used function.

thank you, would definitely buy the application if my request to the purchasing department is approved as i am not rich enough to fork my own money for company use.
Tammy on January 26th, 2012 12:40 am

I need to load spreadsheets that I receive into another piece of software that my company uses. If vendors don’t send it as an excel spreadsheet then I have to key every entry in (super time consuming and boring). PDF2XL is an ideal solution for converting the data. It’s quick and easy to use and has almost eliminated manual data entry.
Phil on January 26th, 2012 7:16 pm

Very slick!

I work on the Finance Committee for our homeowners association. We recently changed property management companies and our outgoing provider was a bit remiss in providing historical information.

I had been receiving monthly financial reports as “pdf” files, but really needed the data in a spreadsheet to properly analyze.

The download of PDF2XL was extremely fast and the conversion was virtually instantaneous. It was very easy to use, even on the first try without viewing any help or demo’s.

I can’t wait to explore the features further.
sudarshana on January 27th, 2012 8:03 am

A child first learns his A B C So EASY and PDF2XL is that EASY for anyone to use as ABCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC….have my word and just use it once and you will get addicted to it surely.
Ben on January 30th, 2012 2:11 am

Have tried a number of pdf to excel viewers over time and this is the only viewer that has converted Excel Files easily, in the format desired while also maintaining number values.
Robert Woo on January 31st, 2012 12:52 am

This is the best software by far. I work for a marketing company and having to input 100′s of UPC codes into excel manually is a daunting and frustrating task. However, with PDF2XL Enterprise, litterally just minutes, converts all my UPC codes into excel with little effort.

!!!!I LOVE THIS SOFTWARE!!!!
Karen Futrell on January 31st, 2012 1:51 am

The PDF2XL is wonderful. I have used several programs trying to convert PDF files to Excel. Each was an improvement but I was so happy when I found the PDF2XL. It really does a great job. I like being able to compare the data to your original PDF file cell by cell. Much easier than taking a print-out and comparing the difference to the file.

Saves me so much time!!!!!
Mohammad Hassan on January 31st, 2012 11:22 am

Hello,
I must say it is an awesome software. It helped converting files in flashes and it really helped. the interface is friendly and rewarding.
THankssss
GONZALO MARIN on February 1st, 2012 11:21 pm

Mi comentario es muy simple: Busque en la web para convertir PDF A EXCEL y lo mejor que encontré de modo gratis, no me sirvió. Necesitaba comprobar que era posible hacerlo para una mayor cantidad de páginas.
Después de prácticamente un día de investigar en la WEB, Encontré este programa, lo revisé y antes de 10 minutos adquirí la versión completa
Cathy Zawodzinski on February 4th, 2012 12:13 am

Wow! It is just what I needed..had many docs posted on websites in pdf formats and I needed to compile and interpert the information…I got the PDF into word and was copying the Word table into Excel, but what a process! I knew there had to be a better way, and you guys came up with it! Thanks so much!
Ron Swenson on February 4th, 2012 6:35 pm

Shucks. It didn’t work out as I hoped it would.

I get a year end summary of my credit card purchases, already separated into about a dozen categories as a .pdf file. The problem is that they are never categorized correctly, so putting them into an Excel file would make it a breeze to fix. PDF2XL chokes on the format, and it took me more than a half hour of cut and paste to convert a 21 page pdf file. Rats.
David Foster on February 5th, 2012 3:33 pm

Once again this year I was dreading doing my taxes and manually inputting hundreds, if not thousands, of transactions.I was putting it off, worrying, not sleeping well, the whole gamut of stress related issues. Then I found PDF2XL. Amazing product – worked perfectly right away, very intuitive to use and a huge time saver. My taxes are done. Thank you.
Katie on February 7th, 2012 3:54 am

I was given a 171 page PDF by my boss and asked to convert it into an excel file, I am not very “techy” and I am pretty much self taught. I asked one of our “nerds” if he had ever done anything like this and he just shook his head and said no way!! I found your website and watched the video and thought that if it worked as well as the video claims even I should be able to do this! THIS PRODUCT IS AWESOME! This was so easy and worked exactly as the video explained. The boss was happy and I looked pretty good for figuring it out so quickly! If I was tasked with something like this often I would absolutely buy the full version! Thank You
Eduardo Tafur on February 7th, 2012 5:14 am

I’m trying to evaluate the program, please let me continue to do so.
Thanks
Kerri Laster on February 7th, 2012 7:14 pm

I tried a lot, I mean ALOT of different pdf converters. This program,PDF@XL, is the cleanest, easiest to use, while still having the most features and customization. This program makes all the difference and does exactly what I want. The Program to Have! Thanks!

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