CJK plus Greek OCR Support

We have released new versions of Solid PDF Tools, Solid Converter Mac and Solid Commander that include optical character recognition (OCR) for Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Greek.

This OCR support was added using Tessaract OCR. Tesseract is an optical character recognition engine for various operating systems. 

Solid PDF Tools download:
http://www.soliddocuments.com/download.htm?product=SolidPDFTools

Solid Commander download:
http://www.soliddocuments.com/download.htm?product=SolidCommander

Solid Converter Mac download:
http://www.mac-pdf-converter.com/download-pdf-to-word

In addition, Solid OCR includes high quality optical character recognition in 14 languages (English, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish , Swedish and Turkish) for reconstructing scanned pages as editable documents.

Solid PDF to Word for Mac is now Solid Converter Mac

Solid PDF to Word for Mac was originally only a PDF to Word converter.

It has had a LOT more conversion features added since we released our Mac software so we changed the name. Find out more at our website:

http://www.mac-pdf-converter.com

Solid PDF to Word for Mac - Version 2.1

We have released an update to Solid PDF to Word for Mac - version 2.1.

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Solid PDF to Word for Mac v2 - OSX 10.9 support

Solid PDF to Word for Mac v2 works with the latest OS X Maverick operating system.

To run the Mac PDF to Word converter, your Mac must meet the following requirements:

• A Mac computer with an Intel processor
• Requires Mac OS X v10.6, v10.7, v10.8, v10.9
• 150 MB of available hard disk space
• iWork Pages required to create .pages documents from converted .docx documents

Solid PDF to Word for Mac Updated

We've released an update for Solid PDF to Word for Mac: version 1.3.

Mountain Lion OSX (v10.8) support has been added with continued support for OSX v10.6 and v10.7.

Solid PDF to Word for Mac also includes improved heading/style detection, table of contents reconstruction and hierarchical list reconstruction for PDF to Word and PDF to HTML. We have also updated our Solid OCR engine with the latest improvements.

This update is free for all current v1 license holders.

Macworld reviews Solid PDF to Word for Mac

Great little article about our Mac software product (Solid PDF to Word for Mac) on Macworld:

How to convert PDFs to Word (and other formats)

Thanks Kirk McElhearn for the review!

Conversion and Export to Office Open XML Formats

Solid Converter® v7 and Solid PDF Tools Supports Office Open XML

With the support of Office Open XML your application choices for viewing and using your converted content just got richer! Not only is your output more flexible, you don’t need Microsoft ® Word to get it! The stated goal of the Office Open XML standard is to facilitate extensibility and interoperability by enabling implementations by multiple vendors and on multiple platforms.

The Office Open XML file formats were standardized between December 2006 and November 2008. Starting with Microsoft Office 2007, the Office Open XML file formats have become the default file format of Microsoft Office. The ability to read and write Office Open XML format however, is not limited to Microsoft Office; other office products are also able to read and write this format. Other office products that offer import support for the Office Open XML formats include TextEdit (included with Mac OS X), iWork, IBM Lotus Notes, WordPerfect, and Google Docs just to name a few.

An Office Open XML file is a ZIP-compatible OPC package containing XML documents and other resources. That is, one can see the contents of an OOXML file, for example by renaming it to a .zip file and opening it with any zip tool. The actual .xml files can then be viewed in a web browser or a plain text editor.

Sources for more information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standardization_of_Office_Open_XML
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_XML
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML

The Initial Reviews are In...Solid PDF to Word for Mac is

We’re so excited about the new release of Solid PDF to Word for Mac that we are giving the first 500 people a 25% discount to download and purchase Solid PDF to Word for Mac. Thanks for the overwhelming response! Note, as of May 3rd, this special offer has ended.

But don’t take our word for it. Listen to what others have to say…. and download your copy today!

Stephen Withers from ITWire: Solid PDF to Word - a better PDF converter?
Michael Dougherty from Bright Hub: Solid PDF to Word Review
David Chartier from Macworld: Solid PDF to Word converter debuts for Mac
Arafat Hossian Piyada from Worthy Tips: Solid PDF to Word converter (Mac)

Customer feedback:
"I read about this product at an online Mac news site. After downloading and trying the demo, I was amazed at the accuracy and speed of conversion. It took me just a moment to go back to your site and buy a license. The 25% early special was icing on the cake. It will no doubt be an application I use often and your software will become an important part of my workflow in graphic design. Great work!"

Ken Gee

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"Wow! I took a PowerPoint file made on a Windows PC converted it to PowerPoint on the Mac then converted it to a PDF for my iPad and then took that PDF and converted it to a Word file for my Mac. Flawless conversion!!! This really helps with getting files on your iPad that you can edit. Bravo!"

Michael M. Cohen
Diablo Valley Macintosh User Group

Solid PDF to Word for Mac vs. Apple Automator App (Part 2)

Should PDF converters respect PDF security? Solid Documents says yes. Adobe PDF Reference states that anyone is free to use the PDF standard as long as they abide by PDF security settings. Solid PDF to Word for Mac respects all PDF security settings as do all Solid Documents products.

We tried two simple tests with the Apple Automator application (PDFtoRTF). First we tried to push a user password protected file through our Automator PDF app. The tool looked like it created a RTF file from the PDF but then we could not open the file with EditText or Pages (error message: The document x could not be opened.)

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Solid PDF to Word for Mac vs. Apple Automator App

Does Apple OS X provide a method for converting PDF files into other formats? Sort of. You can write an automator application to convert PDF files into RTF documents but you can only extract the text. No formatting is preserved, no tables and no images. If you just need text then the automator application can deliver text. Some of the time.

In our experience the automator application can only handle very simple PDF files. It closes with unexpected errors when offered PDF files with non-standard encoding (very common issue with PDF files), it creates 0 byte files for other PDFs that it cannot convert and generally didnʼt perform robustly to provide useful results.

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Now Available! Solid PDF to Word for Mac

It's here... Now re-purposing and reusing documents becomes quicker and easier for Mac users. Easily convert PDF to Microsoft Word, Excel, and more with Solid PDF to Word for Mac.

Windows users have been using our award-winning PDF to Word conversion utility for years. Now anyone, regardless of platform, can easily convert PDF files into other editable content.

Solid PDF to Word for Mac converts PDF files into Microsoft® Word (.docx), iWork Pages (.pages), Rich Text Format (.rtf), or plain text files (.txt). Extract data to Excel (.xlsx and .csv). Reflow documents into continuous HTML (.htm) format.

System requirements
Mac computer with Intel processor
Mac OS X v10.5 or later
150MB of available hard disk space
iWork Pages required to create .pages files from .docx documents

Pricing and Availability
For pricing information and to immediately download Solid PDF to Word for Mac, visit: http://www.mac-pdf-converter.com/

Save 25%! (Limited Time Offer)
Be one of the first to download and purchase Solid PDF to Word for Mac. We're offering the first 500 people a 25% discount (normally $79.95, limited number for $59.95). Thanks for the overwhelming response! Note, as of May 3rd, this special offer has ended.