Supports many formats and customization options Supports OCR for converting scanned images into text Supports batch conversion Straightforward and easy-to-navigate interface Works fast and produces quality output files Drag & drop for file selection is supported Windows Explorer right-click menu shortcut is supported Does not require a lot of memory and disk space
Cons
Limitations in the unregistered version Free tools with similar but limited functionality can be found online
GIRDAC PDF Converter Ultimate
Price: $
GIRDAC PDF Converter Ultimate is a versatile PDF tool for converting PDF files to a number of different output formats, including images. Besides converting PDF files, it can be used to create PDF files from other formats as well.
The application combines several PDF tools from GIRDAC into one package. So, it can be used to convert PDF files to Word, Excel, HTML, and PostScript, as well as to a number of image formats. When it comes to creating PDF files, supported formats include txt, doc, ppt, and others.
When converting PDF files, you get to choose input files, output location, preferred layout, and some other options, such as whether you want to convert all pages or only the selected few. When converting to images, you can also choose between a number of image formats, such as PNG, TIF, and others.
Let's stop at the layout option for a while. Here you can choose to apply OCR (Optical character recognition) to the conversion. This allows you to convert scanned documents into text. Other options here allow you to extract images from PDF files and similar.
Worth mentioning is also that you can batch convert multiple PDF documents at once. When creating PDF documents you can batch convert many files at once as well, and you can also choose page range, output location, and the type of PDF file.
When creating PDF files or converting them to images there are available some additional options, such as setting compression, resolution, border color, etc. when converting to images, or different page options, meta information, password protection, etc., when it comes to creating PDF files.
The interface is quite straightforward and easy to navigate. It is available in four different styles and over 100 world languages. Complete help is available, in case you should run into any difficulties. The tool otherwise works fast, produces quality output files, and is low on memory and disk space consumption.
Reviewed by Tony Hill (editor rating 5 out of 5 stars)