Corporate financial data in PDF, HTML and Text formats has become the de-facto standard for electronically disseminating information and is widely accessible on the Internet nowadays. 

In the United States, publicly traded corporations publish their financial statements online in ASCII/Unicode text (documents in this format have .TXT extension) format through the United States Security and Exchange Commission.  This database can be accessed at http://www.sec.gov/edgar/searchedgar/webusers.htm.  A2E allows these financial statements in text format to be viewed and transformed into a formatted Excel spreadsheet or into a Microsoft Word document.

In Canada, publicly traded companies are required under securities law to issue quarterly and annual financial statements online at http://www.sedar.com.  The vast majority of these statements are issued in PDF format. A2E allows these financial statements in PDF format to be viewed and transformed into a formatted Excel spreadsheet, into a Microsoft Word document or into ASCII text.

In addition to this, the vast majority of publicly traded companies throughout the world provide their financial statements online through their corporate websites in PDF format free of charge.

Able2Extract 3.00 increases productivity for financial professionals and individual investors alike by saving them the time of having to take the financial information issued by companies and manually inputted it into a spreadsheet. Using A2E, the user can view the financial statements in PDF and text formats and then convert the financials into a formatted Excel spreadsheet. In other words, the conversion allows financial information to be put into the appropriate form needed for financial analysis. 

While designed for the conversion of financial information, the conversion can be used for any type of numerical information contained in PDF documents that would be helpful for data analysis in a spreadsheet program.

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