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ScanSoft, Inc.

END-USER LICENSE AGREEMENT

The  software  and  materials  provided  with  this  agreement  are  licensed, 
not  sold,  and are  available  for  use  only  under  the  terms  of  this  license 
agreement.  Please  read  this  agreement  carefully.  By  downloading, 
installing,  copying,  or  otherwise  using  the  software,  you  agree  to  be 
bound by the terms and conditions of this agreement and become a party 
to this agreement. If you do not agree with all of the terms and conditions 
of  this  agreement,  do  not  download,  install,  copy  or  otherwise  use  the 
software.

This  ScanSoft,  Inc.  (“ScanSoft”)  End  User  License  Agreement 
(“Agreement”)  accompanies  a  ScanSoft  software  product  in  machine-
executable  binary  code  and  related  explanatory  written  materials 
(“Software”). The term “Software” shall also include any modified versions 
or updates  of the  Software licensed to you (“Licensee”)  by ScanSoft, but 
does  not  include  source  code  for  the  ScanSoft  software  product.  You 
may  install  and  use  a  modified  version,  update,  or  upgrade  of  the 
Software  only  if  you  have  a  validly  licensed  full  version  of  the  Software 
being  modified,  updated,  or  upgraded. If  you  download, install,  copy,  or 
otherwise  use  a  modified  version,  update,  or  upgrade  of  the  Software, 
then  this  Agreement  terminates  as  to  the  previous  version of  the 
Software, and  you have  a license only  to such modified version,  update, 
or upgrade of the Software under the  terms of this Agreement. This copy 
of the Software is  licensed to you, Licensee,  as the end user, subject to 
all of the terms and conditions of this Agreement. 

LICENSE  GRANT.

Subject  to  the  terms  and  conditions  of  this 

Agreement,  ScanSoft  grants  Licensee  a  non-exclusive  and  non-
transferable  license  only  to:  (a)  install  and  use  for  personal  or  internal 
business  purposes  one  copy  of  the  Software  on  a  single  computer; 
(b) install and use for personal or internal business purposes one copy of 
the  Software  on  either  a  single  portable  computer  or  a  single  home 
computer, provided that such copy is not used concurrently with the copy 
in  section  (a)  above;  (c) make  a  single  copy  of  the  Software  solely  for 
archival  purposes;  and  (d) store  or  install  a  copy  of  the  Software  on  a 
storage  device such  as  a  network server,  used  only to  install or  run the 
Software on your other computers over an internal network, provided that 
you acquire and dedicate a separate license for each separate computer 
on  which  the  Software  is  installed,  run  or  otherwise  accessed  from  the 
storage  device. A  single  license  for  the  Software  does  not  allow  you  to 
share  the  Software  or  use  it  concurrently  on  different  computers  or  for 
others  other  than  the  Licensee  to  access,  install,  download,  copy  or 
otherwise use the functionality of the Software.

MULTIPLE  LICENSE  PACK. 

If  Licensee  has  purchased  a  Multiple 

License Pack, Licensee may  make additional  copies of the Software not 
to  exceed  the  number  of  licenses  purchased.  Licensee  may  use  each 
copy solely in the manner specified in this Agreement.

ACTIVATION.

ScanSoft has included features in the Software to prevent 

unlicensed use of  the Software. You  agree that  ScanSoft may  do so.  In 
particular,  use  of  the  Software  requires  that  Licensee  activate  the 
Software through the  Internet  as described during the  installation set up 
of the Software. During such activation, ScanSoft may collect certain non-
personal  technical  information  from  your  computer  concerning  your 
computer  or network. You  agree that  ScanSoft may  do so. You  may  be 
required to reactivate the Software if you modify your computer hardware 
or the Software. 

NOTIFICATIONS.

The  Software

contains  a  component

that  will 

automatically  activate  your  Internet  browser  and  attempt  to  initiate  a 
connection through the Internet to a website maintained by  ScanSoft that 
contains notification information  related to the Software. This connection 
will  be  made  using  the  Internet  connections  and  telephone  lines  under 

your  control.  From  time  to  time,  you  may  receive  notices  about  the 
Software or  other  information  through  this  Internet  connection.  By 
installing the Software on your computer, you hereby consent to have the 
Software initiate a connection through the  Internet to ScanSoft’s website, 
to use your resources to  connect to such  website, and to receive notices 
about  the  Software and  other  information  through  this  Internet 
connection.

RESTRICTIONS.

Except  as  otherwise  expressly  permitted  in  this 

Agreement, Licensee may not: (i) reproduce or copy any of the Software; 
(ii)  modify  or  create  any  derivative  works  of  the  Software,  including 
translation or  localization; (iii)  decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer, 
or  otherwise  attempt  to  derive  the  source  code  for  the  Software; 
(iv) redistribute,  encumber,  sell,  rent,  lease,  sublicense,  or  otherwise 
transfer  rights  to  the  Software;  (v)  remove  or  alter  any  trademark,  logo, 
copyright  or  other  proprietary notices,  legends,  symbols  or  labels  in  the 
Software;  (vi)  provide  service  bureau  services  using  the  Software  or 
otherwise use  the Software to  process data or information supplied  by a 
third  party  for  the  benefit  of  such  third  party  without  ScanSoft’s  prior
express  written  consent,  which  may  be  given  in  ScanSoft’s  sole 
discretion; or (vii) copy the printed  materials accompanying the Software.
Any  changes  to,  modifications  to,  or  derivative  works  of  the  Software 
shall become the exclusive property of ScanSoft.

TERMINATION.

Without  prejudice  to  any  other  rights,  ScanSoft  may 

terminate  this  Agreement  if  Licensee  breaches  any  of  its  terms  and 
conditions.  Upon  termination,  Licensee  shall  destroy  all  copies  of  the 
Software. 

PROPRIETARY  RIGHTS.

Title,  ownership  r ights,  and  intellectual 

property  rights  in  the  Software  shall  remain  in  ScanSoft  and/or  its 
suppliers  or  licensors.  Licensee  acknowledges  such  ownership  and 
intellectual property rights and  will not take any action to  jeopardize, limit 
or  interfere  in  any manner  with  ScanSoft’s  or  its  suppliers’  or  licensors’ 
ownership  of  or  rights  with  respect  to  the  Software.  The  Software  is 
protected  by  copyright  and  other  intellectual  property  laws  and  by 
international treaties. 

DISCLAIMER  OF  WARRANTY.

THE  SOFTWARE  (INCLUDING 

WITHOUT  LIMITATION  THE  RELATED  DOCUMENTATION)  IS 
PROVIDED  ON  AN  “AS  IS”  BASIS,  WITHOUT  WARRANTY  OF  ANY 
KIND, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION THE WARRANTIES THAT IT 
IS  FREE  OF  DEFECTS,  MERCHANTABLE,  FIT  FOR  A  PARTICULAR 
PURPOSE  OR  NON-INFRINGING.  THE  ENTIRE  RISK  AS  TO  THE 
QUALITY  AND  PERFORMANCE  OF  THE  SOFTWARE  IS  BORNE  BY 
LICENSEE.  SHOULD  THE  SOFTWARE  PROVE  DEFECTIVE  IN  ANY 
RESPECT, LICENSEE  AND NOT SCANSOFT  OR ITS SUPPLIERS  OR 
RESELLERS  ASSUMES  THE  ENTIRE  COST  OF  ANY  SERVICE  AND 
REPAIR.  THIS  DISCLAIMER  OF  WARRANTY  CONSTITUTES AN 
ESSENTIAL  PART  OF  THIS  AGREEMENT.  NO  USE OF  THE 
SOFTWARE  IS  AUTHORIZED  HEREUNDER  EXCEPT  UNDER  THIS 
DISCLAIMER.  SOME  STATES  OR  JURISDICTIONS DO  NOT  ALLOW 
THE  EXCLUSION  OF  IMPLIED  WARRANTIES  OR  LIMITATIONS  ON 
HOW  LONG  AN  IMPLIED WARRANTY  MAY  LAST,  SO  THE  ABOVE 
LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

LIMITATION OF  LIABILITY.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT  PERMITTED 

BY  APPLICABLE  LAW,  IN  NO  EVENT  WILL  SCANSOFT  OR  ITS 
SUPPLIERS  OR  LICENSORS  BE  LIABLE  FOR  ANY  INDIRECT, 
SPECIAL,  INCIDENTAL  OR  CONSEQUENTIAL  DAMAGES  ARISING 
OUT  OF  THE  USE  OF  OR  INABILITY  TO  USE  THE  SOFTWARE, 
INCLUDING,  WITHOUT  LIMITATION,  DAMAGES  FOR  LOSS  OF 
GOODWILL, 

WORK 

STOPPAGE, 

COMPUTER 

FAILURE 

OR 

Summary of Contents for PDF CONVERTER STANDARD 3 - GUIDE

Page 1: ...ScanSoft PDF Converter 3 Online Help...

Page 2: ...tly from these applications edit them and save them in the appropriate file type To learn more about ScanSoft s office productivity and speech recognition solutions please visit www scansoft com Copyr...

Page 3: ...two main dialog boxes PDF Converter Assistant This lets you start conversions giving you a preview of the PDF file to be converted and providing control over the process PDF Converter Settings This ca...

Page 4: ...get Help This product is supplied with a printed Quick Reference Guide giving mainly installation and activation guidance This guide is available in a PDF file on the CD and after installation in the...

Page 5: ...lled High Color in Windows 2000 and Medium Color in XP and 800 x 600 pixel resolution Windows compatible pointing device CD ROM drive for installation Internet connection for activation de activation...

Page 6: ...o keep the serial number in a safe place it is fully checked only during product activation and is also needed for any re installations The installer offers a default location for the program Accept i...

Page 7: ...g version 3 Keep the serial number of the earlier version to retain the option of installing it on a different computer Note The user performing installation or un installation should have Administrat...

Page 8: ...t Microsoft Excel and Rich Text RTF An extended range of PDF files can be successfully converted Built in OCR helps in converting image only files into textual documents without the requirement to hav...

Page 9: ...onversions and then choose Microsoft Word WordPerfect or Rich Text Format under Target Select Form for PDF files containing forms The only target application is Microsoft Word is this case Select Spre...

Page 10: ...select a file and click Open A preview of the first PDF page appears in the Assistant 3 Decide the output file format first Document or Form 4 Use the navigation buttons to view other pages 5 Accept o...

Page 11: ...ft Outlook 1 Select a message that has a PDF attachment The PDF Converter button will become active 2 Click the PDF Converter button in the Outlook toolbar or in the message toolbar A dialog box appea...

Page 12: ...PDF file name with full path and extension or browse to select a file and click Open A preview of the first PDF page appears in the Preview panel of the PDF Converter Assistant 3 Use the navigation b...

Page 13: ...d file will be displayed in the target application when conversion is finished 5 Set a page range if desired See Preview panel 6 Specify settings if required in the Document Options panel 7 Click Open...

Page 14: ...ting conversions from Microsoft Outlook Windows Explorer The PDF Converter Assistant offers the following panels Preview This shows a preview of the PDF and lets you define the conversion type Documen...

Page 15: ...Preview panel PDF Converter Settings is selected from the Microsoft Excel Tools menu It lets you decide how image only pages color conversion and resolution for graphic elements should be handled and...

Page 16: ...s documents For more guidance see Converting Forms Converting Documents and Converting Tables to Spreadsheets Preview Once an input PDF file name is chosen a preview of its first page appears in the P...

Page 17: ...instructions Example Pages to be converted 2 Page 2 only 3 7 Pages 3 4 5 6 and 7 8 4 Pages 8 7 6 5 and 4 5 Pages 1 2 3 4 and 5 11 All pages from 11 to end of file 2 4 6 9 7 Pages 2 3 4 6 9 8 7 3 15 1...

Page 18: ...izable characters are represented by a reject character which is a tilde by default You can change this reject character if you wish Skip Image only pages will be skipped When pages are skipped you wi...

Page 19: ...d colored backgrounds will also be transferred De select this to have all text transferred as black and colored or shaded backgrounds converted to white De selecting this setting does not prevent the...

Page 20: ...encoded pages Most PDF files use standard character encoding If not this is the case enable this option to extract text using OCR Language selection made in the OCR Settings dialog box will be used C...

Page 21: ...as in the PDF If the PDF file has images with a higher value than you specify they will be reduced to the given value When the PDF has large images or it has many image only pages and you requested th...

Page 22: ...at the end of the list only if the PDF file really contains text in more than one language This setting enables all eleven listed languages For better accuracy de select Multi lingual when it is no l...

Page 23: ...Conversion Non standard encoded pages and Resolution for Graphic Elements For details see the Document Options panel Settings for each processing type are stored separately to give you better control...

Page 24: ...provided Other buttons give access to the ScanSoft web site containing knowledge bases and user forums for different products to Web Update reports and to the Quick Reference Guide Press the Help butt...

Page 25: ...ed settings Starting from Excel only Spreadsheet Options are displayed Starting from WordPerfect only Document Options can be set The PDF Converter Settings dialog box may present the following panels...

Page 26: ...s your work when you have a repeating task with many PDF files coming from a known source and you have prior knowledge of the PDF content If you do not need a preview of the file want to convert all i...

Page 27: ...ernet Explorer Enable this to add a PDF Converter item to the shortcut menu that appears when you right click on a link to a PDF file in a web page or to an HTML page hosting a PDF file The referenced...

Page 28: ...t a big document we publish some indicative speed data The average time for converting a standard sized page is Black and white 2 5 3 0 seconds Grayscale 3 2 3 8 seconds Color page 5 5 7 0 seconds The...

Page 29: ...Files Sample document The program is supplied with a sample document located on the program CD and also copied to the local computer usually to the folder My documents This location may vary dependin...

Page 30: ...the Form Options panel If you want to do one click processing without the Assistant open the File Open Settings panel in the PDF Converter Settings dialog box and choose Automatically Convert as Forms...

Page 31: ...ttings panel in the PDF Converter Settings dialog box and choose Automatically Convert as Documents When to use True Page conversion When transfer of the textual information in the form is just as imp...

Page 32: ...for conversion quality Process it using both of the above methods to see the difference between them Note The output Word document contains static form elements You can activate them in Word to create...

Page 33: ...is placed in a separate worksheet at the end and it is named Overview This Overview sheet contains hyperlinks leading to the relevant worksheet tables The following diagram summarizes the two ways you...

Page 34: ...rd as Target 3 Click browse for your PDF file to be converted select it and click Open 4 Select Page Range and type in 1 2 in our example 5 Check the output file name under Save as If your PDF file is...

Page 35: ...16 Change the output file name under Save as to avoid overwriting the file created under point 7 E g sample1 doc 17 Click Form Options and make changes if necessary 18 Click Convert The converted file...

Page 36: ...o ways of having this done Flowing Columns and True Page The latter places all page elements in text boxes or frames The former removes boxes when possible and uses column and paragraph breaks and mar...

Page 37: ...t Word Help If you choose Text in Boxes formatting text blocks will also be placed in boxes If the end of a paragraph is not visible scroll down in the text box to see it Re size the text box or selec...

Page 38: ...how in the View menu to make the end of paragraphs visible 2 Select Tools Settings Display Symbols and check that symbols you want displayed on screen are enabled If you need to restore the original l...

Page 39: ...dify it When starting from inside a target application the saved file is displayed When starting from the Windows Start menu display is optional If you open a PDF file in Microsoft Word with File Open...

Page 40: ...an result from scanning a paper document opening an electronic image file or a PDF file Images do not have editable text characters they have many tiny dots pixels that together form character shapes...

Page 41: ...editing o Voice readback facility o And much more Scan new pages into the converted document Add new pages from fax or image files Save to other formats including OmniPage Pro s internal format for do...

Page 42: ...t text attributes graphics and tables are retained 4 No formatting Text is decolumnized and rendered as plain text Graphics and tables are retained but not in their original locations This option is c...

Page 43: ...yed A text layer was detected for this page This page is image only Navigate through all pages in the document If you see both icons or if the image only icon displays for all pages then use the Docum...

Page 44: ...assword is sufficient Please supply the open password or the permissions password The file will be converted Permissions password is necessary Please supply the permissions password to have the file c...

Page 45: ...n English Polish Portuguese Standard Portuguese Brazilian Provencal Quechua Rhaetic Romanian Romany Ruanda Rundi Sami Samoan Sardinian Serbian Shona Sioux Slovak Slovenian Somali Sorbian Wend Sotho Sp...

Page 46: ...lect ScanSoft PDF Converter 3 0 3 Click Remove to uninstall the program or Change to auto repair it A de activation step is performed at the start of uninstallation allowing you to reinstall the progr...

Page 47: ...Document Options panel If the Add to Document as Image option is selected all the pages without a text layer in the PDF file will be put as images in the converted file Remember in the Preview panel y...

Page 48: ...G Group s software copyright 1991 1995 Thomas G Lane This software is based in part on the work of the Independent JPEG Group The software is based in part on the work of Colosseum Builders Inc The so...

Page 49: ...Inc Words are checked against the 80 307 90 406 105 785 115 784 word Proximity Collins Linguibases Trademarks Productivity Without Boundaries ScanSoft the ScanSoft logo OmniPage Pro True Page and Logi...

Page 50: ...TIFICATIONS The Software contains a component that will automatically activate your Internet browser and attempt to initiate a connection through the Internet to a website maintained by ScanSoft that...

Page 51: ...American Arbitration Association then in effect with the losing party paying all costs of arbitration This Agreement shall not be governed by the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the Interna...

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