Preview Panel - ScanSoft PDF CONVERTER STANDARD 3-HELP Online Help Manual

Preview Panel

Convert as
Choose one of the following options to define the type of conversion you want:
 Document: The pages have body text and maybe titles, columns, tables
and pictures.
 Form: The pages have spaces, answer boxes, comb boxes, checkmarks
and similar elements for collecting information.
 Spreadsheet: The tables in the input document will be converted to Excel
worksheets.
For Documents, you can also choose a target output format: Word, WordPerfect
or Rich Text. For Forms Microsoft Word is the only choice and for Spreadsheets
MS Excel. Depending on your choice, the panel
Options or Spreadsheet Options
also be processed successfully as documents. For more guidance, see
Converting Forms,
Spreadsheets.
Preview
Once an input PDF file name is chosen, a preview of its first page appears in the
Preview pane. Click inside it to see an enlarged view in a separate window.
Close this window with OK if you want to view other pages. Use the navigation
buttons to go to the next page, last page, previous page and first page. The
display shows how many pages are in the file.
The icon in the top-right corner of the
A text layer was detected for this page. It can be converted to editable text.
This page is image-only. No text layer was detected, or password protection
prohibits access to the text layer. PDF Converter can generate editable text from
this page, but must use its
See Image-only PDF Files
is available. Sometimes, form-like PDF files can
Converting Documents
Preview
built-in Optical Character Recognition
and Protected PDF
Document Options,
and Converting Tables to
panel gives page information:
Files.
Form
(OCR) for this.
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