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$49 PDF Converter Is Free Until Feb 5th
PDFZilla is a Windows application that converts PDF files into Word documents, HTML files, JPG images, and a variety of other formats too. If you head to their main web page you'll find that the program is currently discounted from $49.95 to $29.95. But at Gizmo's we can do better than that!
Head to www.pdfzilla.com/giveaway.html instead, and the price is a nice round zero. The program is free until February 5th. It runs on Windows 2000 and above, and is a 6 MB download.
When you go to the web page, your registration code will be displayed. MAKE A NOTE OF THIS before you download and install the software. Then, once installed, click the Register button and type (or paste ) your code. Your software is now fully licenced.
My thanks to Dickson Woo for telling me about this Hot Find.
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Win 7 x64 Home Premium. Installed as admin, run as admin, input code, but still unregistered.
For anyone wanting a 'one off' free pdf to word conversion (and other conversions as well) there is a website called zamzar that can do it online for you.
It is free for files up to 100Mb and you have to give them your email address so they can tell you when the file is ready to download.
Worked flawlessly for me with a pdf that had tables, pictures and text.
I have no affiliation with them.
Cheers,
Paul
Good tip, Paul. I use Zamzar for my conversions :)
If you want to convert anything with tables this is not the solution!
will try it. thanks
The About box says:
"PDFZilla is a desktop application that quickly and accurately convert PDF files into editable MS Word Documents,"...
Quickly: Yes
Accurately: FAR FROM IT!!!
I tested with three PDF files. It really messed up on all three. This program is barely worth keeping on disk even for free.
This worked for me right from the start. I have Windows XP service pack 3.
Thanks!
I also had immediate success and results, using XP SP3. However, when I came back to use it the next day, the only result I could get was a 1 KB file, in each of three different files. So, I removed the program and re-installed it. Same problem....only 1 KB output. So, I downloaded a new PDFzilla and installed it. Same problem. I sent "feedback" to PDFzilla, and have no response. It worked and then it doesn't. Any thoughts? Or, similar experience?
Thank you,
Loaded program. Attempted to convert PDF file and got PDF Zilla has stopped working. Uninstalled and downloaded again with same result. Downloaded again and installed on flash drive. Same result. Registration code works and indicates registration but when trying to convert file always indicates it is not working with Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: PDFZilla.exe
Application Version: 1.2.0.9
Application Timestamp: 4c4c26f4
Fault Module Name: PDFtox.dll
Fault Module Version: 1.2.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 49ae8b49
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 00081424
OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: ec55
Additional Information 2: ec55cf3444611cb06d2425e6230d49b6
Additional Information 3: 44ad
Additional Information 4: 44adbded09a2383388fffd2de58eff45 Failure information.
Can you please translate this? Help
~ «Can you please translate this? Help»
Please contact PDF Zilla'support team about.
Yes that was it. A bit scary, but assuming there is nothing dangerous about this program. You just needed to run the program in administrator mode when registering. IE. Press Ctrl+Shift whilst clicking on the program, then register. Next time you start it will be registered.
Good to know you sorted it out. Thanks for posting about it.
Installed on Win7 Professional
After registering, the program confirms successful registration and then closes.
However when you open it again it is still unregistered. Even after rebooting.
When you use it, it asks you to register, which it does again ok, but still the same.
Could it need installing from the command window as an administrator.
Yes, according to the comments below, you need to install and register the program as administrator.
Makes each line of text to its own text box when converting to Word doc => useless. You get the same, or even better result with just copy-paste and formatting it yourself.
As ix said above, "I open the program, paste in the code and submit. Then I get a message thanking me for registering and please restart the program. I restart it and get that I have 8 free ones left and to register." My experience has been similar. Running Windows 7 64 bit.
I had a look at their website, and under system requirements, they do not have Windows 7. So, I don't think that this software will work on Windows 7 :(. That's why I think the registration does not work.
Installed, registered and working fine on my Win7 Ultimate 32bit.
Really? O.o
Maybe it does not work on 64 bit then? :D.
What was the procedure you followed, can you please write it down for the help of others? :)
Works fine on my Win7 Pro 64bit machine. Registered using a domain account that is also a local machine admin account. didn't run as administrator. just entered the code and the program closed.
Converted a file or two with no problems
AJ
No problems in my updated 64-bit W7 HP machine. Contact PDFzilla's support?
It was a standard install done as Admin. It finished installing and i entered the registration key i got off the site yesterday. Nothing more to report, sry:D
No problem. Thanks for posting :).
Thank you, thank you! This is beyond marvelous, and just the right price for students!
One note, when I opened the resulting word document in Office 2010, there were 8 blank pages! Took a moment to realize that the fonts were set to the background color - and just a second to 'ctrl-a' and set all text color to 'automatic'.
If you want word output, it's good to do two conversions: once to word, then do it again to HTML, so you can insert the images in the word document in the places they belong.
And, folk, do take notice of the box on the right with parameters: they're all editable, so you can reset dpi for pdf-to-bmp, for instance, to 600 and get a much sharper result!
I open the program, paste in the code and submit. Then I get a message thanking me for registering and please restart the program. I restart it and get that I have 8 free ones left and to register. Its just a loop. This is on Windows 7/Chrome 10, Microsoft Security Essentials and no adblockers.
Please read my comment above. I think the software is not meant to work for Windows 7. They do not have it listed on their site. Maybe that's why the problem.
I installed the program and registered the code without a problem. I fed the program a bunch of PDFs and it crashed while converting them to HTML. It did manage to do some conversions. The output looks nice, although some glitches (unexpected characters, a bit of layout missing) show. It is unable to convert links within the document! (and between documents as well, not surprising.) Useless to me, uninstalled.
Sadly, this has been my experience of the product. I have no idea to what extent different computer set-ups will produce different results, but in my case -- a Vista OS, albeit I can hardly believe that matters -- the darn thing simply doesn't do what it says on the tin: the conversion from pdf to Word or rich text is really poor.
The developer has recently been assiduous in placing this as a freebie both on its own website as well as 'giveaway' websites, all of which makes me wonder if it is beginning to realise that this app doesn't live up to the expectations of those who pay for it.
I can't speak for any other conversions that this app may or may not do because (a) I haven't tried them and (b) am not interested: my work, such as it is, often involves .pdf leaflets, brochures etc from official Government and similar websites, all of which merit accurate 'translation' and accurate rendering.
I cannot get that translation on a consistently reliable basis. Which is why I've uninstalled. As to the fact that it has a relatively high retail price, and so would appear to be a bargain "for free": what a developer places on a product as a sticker price doesn't necessarily equate to the market's idea of price. And from my experience, the price for this app is absurdly inflated (well, in my case, I'm glad I paid precisely zero.)
Downloaded it, applied the free registration code, and tried it out on, what I thought was, a challenging pdf. I converted a 75Mb pdf book which contained almost 600 pictures to html format. Not only did it do the job, but it did it so quickly I was surprised. What I particularly liked about the output was that all the images were converted to jpgs and neatly placed in a subfolder of the html file. Really nice when you want to collect and view a large number of pictures. It's a keeper for me. Thanks a lot for the tip!
I tried a few files (convert to html and convert to text) and it does not seem to do a very good job. Does not look like it's worth fooling with because the output is poor and mostly unusable. I don't really understand why it should be so hard to go from pdf file to whatever. Seems like technology has done harder tasks.
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