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Scan, create or convert. Affordable creation of searchable, archivable PDF/A compliant documents.

 

What's new in version 9?

Solid PDF Tools sets the standard for PDF to Word conversion. Over 13 years of PDF to Word document reconstruction expertise. v9 includes a new and improved user interface where the core tasks are easily available.

 

User Interface

Solid PDF Tools now has an easy to use start page to access your key tasks and files.

The simplified user interface has a focus on the core functionality - document reconstruction: bringing important and commonly used options closer to the surface, simplifying the application of options: one set of options, one way to perform a task.

By popular demand we've integrated features such as print, search and document properties to make our product a better default PDF viewer.

Here are 3 easy to remember short-cut keys to access these features:

 

  - Print
 
 
  - Document Properties
 
 
  - Find (text search)

 

 

New Solid Ribbon for Microsoft Word

Microsoft Word Ribbon Add-in for Office 2007, 2010 and 2013. Quickly "open" PDFs in Word and includes excellent direct Scan to Word functionality that is obviously missing from Word.

64 bit Microsoft Windows and Multi-Process Support

Solid PDF Tools is a native 64 bit application when running on 64 bit Windows. This improves performance and capability when dealing with very large documents (32-bit processes limited to using only 2GB of computer memory).

Solid PDF Tools now takes advantage of multi-core processors. This improves performance for time intensive operations like OCR and batch file conversions.

Windows 8 is supported. Solid PDF Tools also runs on Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7.

Conversion Improvements

As always, Solid PDF Tools has many conversion quality improvements, including:

Detection and reconstruction of Table of Contents

Text wrapping

Auto rotate detection

Better font substitution for unusual fonts

Improved serif and san-serif font recognition and selection

Better paragraph reconstruction for unusual layouts

Improved table recognition and reconstruction

Improved line and paragraph spacing

Enhanced header/footer detection and reconstruction

Bullet symbol improvements: support for non-standard font mappings

Optical Character Recognition (better text and image recovery)

Selective conversion is much improved and simplified. You can now reconstruct a selected area of a PDF page directly to the clipboard in multiple formats with a single click.

Archiving and PDF/A

Solid PDF Tools has reworked scanning functionality for easy document assembly. Supports the two most common scenarios very well: Scan to PDF and Scan to Word. WIA and TWAIN drivers supported. Solid PDF Tools will present your scanner manufacturer's scanning dialog so you can use all the features available for your device.

Solid PDF Tools and Solid PDF/A Express have superior PDF/A creation, conversion and validation tools.

Solid PDF Tools and Solid PDF/A Express support the following PDF/A formats:

PDF/A-1a: This level, also referred to as Level A Conformance, is fully compliant with the ISO 19005-1 Standard. This version includes tagging, so that text can be extracted and viewed by multiple devices including hand-helds.

PDF/A-1b: Referred to as Level B Conformance, this category is considered to be the minimal compliance level for PDF/A. This level guarantees that the document can be displayed and read on a computer monitor, but the legibility of the text is not guaranteed.

PDF/A-2 (support for 2a, 2b and 2u): PDF/A-2 is based on the ISO standard 32000-1 and takes advantage of features that came after the Adobe PDF 1.4 specification. This includes

support for JPEG2000 compression (benefits for scanned color documents)

embedded PDF/A files via collections/portfolios

transparency, optional content (layers): useful for mapping or engineering drawings or documents with multiple languages (implement different content on different layers)

unicode support (PDF/A-2U)

object level XMP metadata (new requirements for custom metadata)

comments and annotations (defined list of acceptable and prohibited annotation and comment types for PDF/A-2)

digital signature rules defined

PDF/A-3 (support for 3a, 3b and 3u): PDF/A-3 is based on the ISO standard 32000-1 and offers support for support for embedded files of any format.

Tagged document structure is required for PDF/A-2a and PDF/A-3a compliance. Existing tags are preserved when converting tagged PDF files to PDF/A-2a and PDF/A-3a.

Features

Solid PDF Tools is the leading PDF converter for turning PDF files into fully editable Windows documents. Whether you need your content in Microsoft® Word, Excel, PowerPoint, HTML or just text, Solid PDF Tools gives you a simple and easy way to quickly get your content.

Convert whole documents or selected content.

Solid PDF Tools offers robust PDF/A archival creation, conversion and validation with PDF/A-1b, PDF/A-2b, PDF/A-2u, PDF/A-3b and PDF/A-3u ISO 19005 formats supported.

Document Conversion and Reconstruction
PDF to Word
Scan to Word
Convert to Excel
Convert to HTML
Convert to PowerPoint
Convert to Text
Extract Data
Extract Images
Selection Conversion (file or clipboard)
Word Addin (Open PDF button)
Word Addin (Open Image button)

Archival and Creation
Convert to PDF/A
Validate PDF/A
Scan to PDF
PDF to Searchable PDF or PDF/A
Create PDF using Office
Create PDF from Images
Create PDF using printer driver
Combine
Page Manipulation

Miscellaneous
Page Viewer (Zoom, etc.)
Passwords, Permissions, Encryption
Document Properties
Viewer Settings
Multiple-Files
Search

Conversion

PDF to Word Converter. Convert your PDF files to Word documents for easy editing.

Scan to Word. Scan directly from paper to well formatted, editable Word documents using the Solid AddIn from within Microsoft® Word.

PDF to Excel Converter. Convert tables from your PDF files to Microsoft® Excel spreadsheets. Select pages or entire document.

PDF to PowerPoint Conversion. Convert each page in your PDF to a slide in PowerPoint and then edit.

Convert to HTML. Convert your PDFs to high quality reflowed HTML while preserving styles, tables and hyperlinks.

Extract Data. Use this to extract data from PDF files to .CSV files. User options include: specify delimiter, line terminator and encoding to be used during extraction.

PDF to Text Converter. Use advanced document reconstruction to extract flowing text content from PDF. Figures out columns. Removes headers and footers.

Archiving

Scan to PDF. Scan paper documents into archivable PDF/A documents. Searchable thanks to OCR text layer.

TIFF to PDF Converter. Convert legacy scanned TIFF documents into fully searchable and archivable PDF/A documents.

OCR for Search. Add searchable text layer. Easy for indexing and archiving legacy and paper documents.

PDF to PDF/A Converter. Convert existing normal or image PDF files into fully searchable ISO 19005-1 and ISO 19005-2 compliant archivable documents.

Validate PDF/A. Verify ISO 19005-1 and ISO 19005-2 compliance for existing PDF documents and repair common issues.

Standard PDF/A Compliance Reports. Solid PDF Tools creates standard PDF/A validation reports as per the specifications from the PDF/D Consortium.

Manipulation

WYSIWYG Content Extraction. Convert selected text, tables or images from a PDF file. Creates formatted content in Word, tables in Excel or image files.

Combine. Combine multiple documents into a single PDF file. Combine PDF files.

Rearrange Pages. Use drag and drop to rearrange page order in a file or between multiple files allowing selective conversion.

Extract Pages. Extract pages from a PDF file as a single new PDF or as multiple new PDFs for each page.

Multiple-file Conversions. Save time by using the multiple-file conversion list in the UI.

Creation

PDF Creation. Simply drag and drop. Easily create PDFs from your documents. WYSIWYG user interface.

Print to PDF. Create PDF files easily from any Windows-based program.

Password-Protect your PDFs. You can restrict who can view, edit, copy, print or add comments to your document.

256 AES Encryption. This new high level encryption is supported in Adobe® Acrobat® 9 or higher. 128-bit RC4 or AES encryption algorithms also supported.

Archive Using PDF/A. Create PDF/A documents which are fully compliant with current ISO archiving standards.

Set Document Properties. Define Title, Author, Subject and Keywords to help organize your documents.

Reduce File Size. Keep your PDFs small with our compression options. Optimize file size for Web or print while preserving an appropriate level of quality.

Acrobat Reader Settings. Set default view including page layout, initial zoom and page thumbnail view.

PDF Bookmarks from Office. Automatically create PDF bookmark outlines from Word, PowerPoint, Excel or Publisher documents.