User manual NUANCE PDF CONVERTER 2 FOR MICROSOFT WORD QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE

[. . . ] 3 Starting the Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Windows Start Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Open PDF button in a Microsoft Word Toolbar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Open Dialog Box in Microsoft Word . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] Activate You will be invited to activate the product at the end of installation. Provided your serial number is found at its storage location and has been correctly entered, no user interaction is required and no personal information is transmitted. If you do not activate the product at installation time, you will be invited to do this each time you invoke the program. Note: System requirements are presented on the product box and in online Help. The user performing installation or un-installation should have Administrator rights on the computer. Administrator rights are recommended for activation and de-activation. ® Note: You will be allowed to re-install the program a reasonable number of times without having re-activation problems, because un-installation includes a de-activation step. The serial number is needed for re-installation and web access is needed for de-activation and reactivation. How to Get Help This printed Quick Reference Guide accompanies the ScanSoft PDF Converter when it is supplied on a CD. This guide is also available as a Microsoft Word document on the CD and after installation in the program folder. When the program is delivered electronically, this Word document should be consulted. Click a button to open Help at the topic relating to the currently displayed dialog box panel or message. Press F1 or click the Help button when the About Panel is displayed to open the online Help system at the Welcome topic. A Readme file with latest information is available on the CD and in the program folder. The ScanSoft web site offers program information, with a regularly updated knowledge base and user forums. Presenting the Program PDF Converter has two dialog boxes, each containing tabbed panels: PDF Converter Assistant This lets you start conversions and control the process. It lets you specify whether the PDF should be treated as a document or as a form and set a page range if desired. Only one of these panels will be active, depending on your PDF description choice. The About panel gives access to product support and help. PDF Converter Settings This lets you choose a Processing Method for future conversions (using the Assistant or doing one-click speed processing for documents or forms) and provides access to other settings. Starting the Program To make the services of PDF Converter easy to call on, it can be started from several locations, as described in the following procedures: 1. The Windows Start Menu Choose ScanSoft PDF Converter 2. 0 under Programs, to see two menu items: PDF Converter Assistant and Settings. All conversions started from the Start menu use the PDF Converter Assistant. It allows you to name an input PDF file and an output Word document file. The Open PDF button in a Microsoft Word Toolbar Use the Open PDF button in a Microsoft Word toolbar or the Open PDF item in the File menu to call the PDF Converter Assistant, displaying its Preview panel. It allows you to name an input PDF file and an output Word document file. The resulting file is displayed in Microsoft Word, ready for editing. 3. Click the File Open button or go to the Microsoft Word File menu and click Open. . . 2. [. . . ] The program warns you of this: Handling Image-only PDF Files When performing document conversions, PDF Converter cannot create editable text from PDF files or pages without a text layer. You can decide how the program should handle these pages: transfer them as images to the Word document or skip them. Image-only pages can be converted by Optical Character Recognition (OCR). You can require inspection of the first pages (up to ten) in PDF files you open. [. . . ]