What’s New
ABBYY PDF Transformer 3.0 is an easy-to-use yet powerful tool that delivers a versatile functionality in one application — PDF conversion, PDF creation and a range of options for combining, securing, and modifying PDF documents.
ABBYY PDF Transformer 3.0 takes an intelligent approach to PDF conversion and with its core technology enhancements, offers highest conversion quality and accuracy. The new version supports ABBYY’s unique ADRT® technology to intelligently reproduce structure and formatting of multipage documents.
Additionally, with its new capabilities for PDF protection and identification and powerful PDF compression technology, the new version enables users to readily prepare documents for archiving and sharing.
Intelligent Re-creation of Document Formatting across Multiple Pages
PDF Transformer 3.0 supports ABBYY’s innovative Adaptive Document Recognition Technology (ADRT) which intelligently re-creates logical structure of documents across multiple pages and outputs PDF files in native Microsoft® Word or Excel formatting. With ADRT, the application accurately reproduces headers, footers, page numbering, footnotes, fonts, font styles, long tables, and captions to images across all pages of a document. Should any changes be applied to number of pages, footnotes or captions, they will be reflected at once within the entire multipage document.
184 Recognition Languages with Automatic Language Detection
New version of ABBYY PDF Transformer delivers the widest language support — it can process documents in 184 languages including a variety of languages with Latin and Cyrillic alphabets, as well as Greek, Armenian, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, Thai, and multilingual documents. For more convenience, it also automatically detects document languages.
New PDF Conversion & Creation Functions
Conversion of Multiple PDFs with one Click
To make document conversion even faster, ABBYY PDF Transformer 3.0 allows you to convert several PDF files simultaneously. You can simply open a folder, select required PDF files and convert them to Word, Excel or searchable PDF documents using the corresponding command in the right-click menu.
Combining Multiple Files into One PDF
With ABBYY PDF Transformer 3.0, you can now automatically combine several files of different format (such as Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, other PDF files) into one PDF document. Each file’s content will begin with a new page in the resulting PDF.
Appending New Files to Existing PDF
ABBYY PDF Transformer 3.0 allows you not only create a PDF file but also easily modify already existing PDF document by appending new files to it including Microsoft Word, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint, HTML and TXT files. New content will automatically appear at the end of the PDF document.
To do this, you simply need to select the file you wish to append and choose the option “ABBYY PDF Transformer 3.0 – Append to Existing PDF Document” in the right-click menu.
Protection and Identification of PDF Documents
Redaction of Sensitive Information
All sensitive information can be easily erased from both text and image layers in PDF document, when using “Convert to Searchable PDF” option in PDF Transformer 3.0. Thus the confidential data, including metadata, will be not just visually hidden or made illegible but completely deleted from the file.
Stamping and Bates stamping
With ABBYY PDF Transformer, you can easily mark and identify documents with copyrights or status by applying customized stamps with any text, position and color.
A new bates stamping feature also provides identification, protection and auto-increment numbering of valuable documents.
ABBYY Screenshot Reader as a Bonus Application
ABBYY Screenshot Reader is a convenient “quick OCR” utility which is able to easily capture screenshots and convert a screen images to text. It is a practical screenshot making tool that can as well extract short text parts, tables, or images from Web pages, flash presentations, Windows Explorer file menus, or error messages. Screenshot Reader is also helpful when you want to pull small quotes or a few sentences from a PDF or image file. Screenshot Reader is very popular and ABBYY sells it via online shop. If you are a registered user of PDF Transformer 3.0 you receive this application as a bonus.
Other new features
Powerful MRC Compression Technology for PDF
PDF Transformer 3.0 supports ABBYY's new MRC Compression technology which enables you to compress PDF files up to 10 times depending on the file content. This powerful technology will help you to save memory space, as well as easily post PDF documents on the Web site or send them by e-mail.
Saving of Selected Document Area to the Clipboard
With ABBYY PDF Transformer 3.0 it is possible to send the content of a particular text or image area directly to the clipboard and to past it later into a document of any application for certain data editing or correction.
Improved Table Reconstruction
New PDF Transformer 3.0 delivers enhanced capability to re-create tables when converting PDFs to Word or Excel, including multipage tables and tables with colored areas.
User Interface Improvements
- New Panel with Page Thumbnails
The user interface now includes a panel with page thumbnails that helps you to easily navigate between pages of a large PDF file and let you easily select pages you wish to have converted. - Flexible Placement of Panels
To make your work with ABBYY PDF Transformer even more comfortable, the new interface also provides the ability to change the position of main interface panels according to individual preferences.
Support for Latest Formats and Operating Systems
ABBYY PDF Transformer 3.0 provides full support for the latest input/output file formats such as DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, PDF 1.7 and PDF/A.
It is compatible with the newest operating systems including Windows Vista (32-bit or 64-bit) and Windows 2008 Server. In addition, this application supports Citrix@ and Windows Terminal Services.