![]() Nothing is documented in the offline or online help about a CLI for the batch converter, and Nuance hasn't (yet) released a user guide/manual for the product. But as I was putting the product through its paces during the 30-day trial, I wondered if there is a Command Line Interface (CLI) for batch conversion. This is an excellent feature that provides for batch conversion of PDF and TIFF files into PDF, Searchable PDF (via built-in OCR), TIFF, and Multipage TIFF. The Advanced Processing section of the Ribbon has a Batch Converter function: The Home section of PPA's Ribbon looks like this: The Graphical User Interface (GUI) of Power PDF Advanced (PPA) utilizes the Ribbon interface, made popular by Microsoft in Office 2007 and continued in all Office releases since then. As with my prior article updates, I did not delete information about the earlier versions, instead adding a section at the bottom of the article about 3.1. Kofax recently released the first version of Power PDF under its stewardship - 3.1. Kofax Announces the Closing of its Acquisition of Nuance Document Imaging Update on : The Nuance Document Imaging Division, which is responsible for Power PDF, was acquired by Kofax. As with my prior article updates, I did not delete information about the earlier versions, instead adding a section at the bottom of the article about 3.0. Update on : Since my previous article update about versions 1.2, 2.0, and 2.1, Nuance released Version 3.0 on. In terms of big differences between the Advanced edition of 1.x and 2.x, here's a Nuance article discussing it: there's a new -Y option for PDF output, which means convert to gray.the -V version parameter for PDF output has five additional choices: X1A, X3, X4, X4P, PDFE.the -T output type parameter has an additional choice: TXT (thanks to member Amine BEN DHIAB for reporting this in the comments section below on 1).(3) The Help text in 2.1 has three differences from 1.1/1.2/2.0, namely: (2) The Help text in both 1.2 and 2.0 is identical to the Help text in 1.1, which is shown below in the 1.1 section of the article. (1) The list of OCR languages is identical in all five releases (1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 2.0, 2.1). Update on 2: Since my previous article update about version 1.1, Nuance released 1.2 in February 2016, 2.0 in June 2016, and 2.1 in May 2017. Update on 1: Although undocumented in the Help text, I just discovered that the input files may be other image file types, including GIF, JPG, and PNG (the Help text documents only PDF and TIF). ![]() Nuance recently released version 1.1, but since EE members may still have 1.0, I decided not to delete the information about 1.0, but instead added a section at the bottom of the article about 1.1. Update on 2: The initial submission of this article was about version 1.0 of Power PDF Advanced. I am simply a happy user/customer of several of the document imaging products, including OmniPage, PaperPort, and PDF Converter (the latter is being replaced by Power PDF). Kofax offers a free 30-day trial of the Advanced edition, available for download here:Īnd the Standard edition, available for download here:Įverything in this article about Version 1.0 is based on my experience with the free trial of the Advanced edition running in W7 Pro 64-bit everything about Version 1.1 and later is based on the licensed Power PDF Advanced, also on W7 Pro 64-bit.ĭisclaimer before going further: I have no affiliation with Kofax or Nuance and no financial interest in them whatsoever. It is available in two editions - Power PDF Standard and Power PDF Advanced. Power PDF was from the Document Imaging division of Nuance Communications, now from Kofax (see article update below).
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