Unlike Word documents, PDF documents usually do not contain enough information about the logical organization of text and other data. What looks like a paragraph to us humans may only be internally represented as multiple strands of text or characters on a 2-D Cartesian plane. XtremePDFConverter parses PDF page elements, tests them against certain criteria, decides whether those page elements could represent a paragraph or a table or a list or something else, and then applies appropriate conversion rules. The resultant document is much more usable and editable than the input PDF document. Unlike many products in the market, XtremePDFConverter generates regular paragraphs. It uses text boxes only for rotated text elements and only when required.

XtremePDFConverter currently supports conversion of PDF to RTF. RTF is a popular document format introduced by Microsoft and is compatible with most word-processing applications such as Microsoft Word, OpenOffice, Abiword, KWord, … and also online productivity suites such as Google Docs, Lotus Symphony, and Microsoft Office Live. XtremePDFConverter does not require PDF software such as Adobe PDF library, Adobe Acrobat Professional, Adobe PDF Reader or GhostScript.

Highlights

• Converts tables and tabbed columns
• Detects numbered and bulleted lists
• Recognizes several types of font encoding
• Detects font size, style and color
• Supports Unicode text
• Has an event to accept password for encrypted files
• Identfies multiple lines of text or characters as paragraphs
• Supports paragraph alignment
• Has events for monitoring conversion, creating progress bars, and also change settings and content at run-time
• Detects clipped text