User manual NUANCE PDF CONVERTER STANDARD 3 QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE

[. . . ] OCR conversion is supplied with the product. Installation and Activation Please remove any previous version of PDF Converter before the installation. The installation program will start automatically. If it does not, locate your CD-ROM drive in Windows Explorer and double-click the converter's setup. exe file. The InstallShield® Wizard will appear. [. . . ] The About panel gives access to product support and help. Open the Options panel for settings of your processing choice. Specify this choice first because this will determine your further choices. This icon shows that the page has a text layer. Pages without a text layer display this icon. Select your output document type. Page ranges help you handle PDF files of mixed content. Preview each page of your PDF using these navigation buttons. Browse to the PDF to be converted. Click Convert when you have adjusted your desired settings. PDF Converter Settings This can be called from the Tools menu of the supported applications (Microsoft Word, Excel and WordPerfect). When you call it from Microsoft Word, the File Open Settings panel lets you choose whether to use the PDF Converter Assistant or not for future conversions started from the Microsoft Word Open dialog box. It also provides access to other settings. Starting the Program To make the services of PDF Converter easy to call on, it can be started from several locations, as described in the following procedures: 3. The Open Dialog Box in Microsoft Word 1. Click the File Open button or go to the Microsoft Word File menu and click Open. . . Click the PDF (Portable Document Format) (*. pdf) format in the Files of type box. Select the PDF file you want to convert. Conversion starts with or without the Converter Assistant, as specified in PDF Converter 3. 0 Settings (Tools menu). If the PDF Converter Assistant is enabled, the PDF is previewed and you can change settings before starting the conversion. If the PDF Converter Assistant is disabled, conversion starts immediately, using existing settings. The progress monitor is displayed along with a series of tips. The converted, editable document is displayed in Microsoft Word. See the following section on how to save the file. Here are steps 2, 3 and 4 from this procedure: 1. The Windows Start Menu Choose ScanSoft PDF Converter 3. 0 under Programs or All Programs. All conversions started from the Start menu use the PDF Converter Assistant. It allows you to name an input PDF file and an output file. Display of the created file is optional. 2. The Open PDF button in a Microsoft Word Toolbar Use the Open PDF button in a Microsoft Word toolbar or the Open PDF item in the File menu to call the PDF Converter Assistant, displaying its Preview panel. It allows you to name an input PDF file, an output Word document file, choose between Document and Formtype processing, and more. The resulting file is displayed in Microsoft Word, ready for editing. Note: You can select two or more PDF files from a folder; each file will be converted into a separate Word document. [. . . ] In many cases you can process these files with the setting Document and receive good results. For more precise control, your can use page ranges to separate forms and tables and convert them separately. For example, to best unlock a PDF with two pages of illustrated text, followed by a one-page table you want to do calculations on, and finally a three-page form ­ convert pages 1 and 2 as Document, page 3 as Spreadsheet and pages 4-6 as Form. Language Support When converting a PDF file you classified as a Form, the following languages are supported: Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish. When converting a PDF file you classified as a Document or a Spreadsheet, ScanSoft PDF Converter can handle over a hundred languages using the Latin alphabet, including all the above and, for instance, Catalan, Czech, Hungarian, Indonesian, Polish, Quechua, Romanian, Swahili and Turkish. [. . . ]