gHacks technology news » pdf software http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:22:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Edit PDF Properties http://www.ghacks.net/2009/03/30/edit-pdf-properties/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/03/30/edit-pdf-properties/#comments Sun, 29 Mar 2009 22:17:23 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2009/03/30/edit-pdf-properties/ Each pdf document contains metadata that lists the document title, document author, keyword, software the document has been created with or the date of the creation among other things. These information are usually generated automatically in the pdf editor that was used to create or modify the pdf document.

These pdf editors usually contain the means to modify the pdf metadata but there are cases where other means of editing might be more comfortable or appropriate. One scenario might be the need to edit the pdf metadata using a computer without the appropriate pdf editor, another speed.

Quick PDF Tools (via Life Rocks)is a free computer software that adds entries to the context menu of Windows Explorer. Those entries allow the user to modify pdf documents on the fly. They can be used to edit certain pdf metadata entries in a window right on the Windows desktop. It is possible to edit the title, author, keywords and subject metadata entries.

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That is not all however as the software can also be used to add or remove open passwords, edit the initial view, merge selected pdf documents, convert selected images into pdf document format or to remove the bookmarks of the selected pdf documents.

Quick PDF Tools is a pdf editing software program compatible with both the Windows XP and Windows Vista operating system. The download of the program installer has a size of less than 1 Megabyte.

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Extract PDF To Text is supplied as an executable and source code. Users need an account at the Code Project to download the file but the data is not verified during the registration. The tool opens a file browser upon execution. The file browser is being used to pick a pdf document from the local hard drive which will be converted into text by the program automatically and stored in the same directory.

Extract PDF To Text cannot convert multiple pdf documents at once which is why Easy Pdf to Text Extractor might be a suitable alternative for users who regularly extract multiple text documents to text or have a large amount of text documents that they want to convert to text.

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Easy PDF To Text can be used to add and convert multiple pdf documents at once to text format. It basically does the same thing that Extract PDF To Text does except for the processing queue and the graphical user interface.

The output is not perfect and it does require some manual correction. The text is readable without that procedure but correcting the gaps and words that got torn apart will improve readability.

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