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Investintech Blogger On Ice

As you may know from her bio, our blogger loves to figure skate. Reena grew up following the sport and its skaters, but never really tried it out for herself until she started as an adult skater while attending university. After the first lesson, she was hooked.

Figure Scates

Currently, she takes recreational lessons with a figure skating coach and is learning how to skate in both freeskate (singles) and ice dance.

Despite the nerves, she just passed her Junior Bronze ice dance test, the Swing Dance (fourth test in the discipline). It focuses on backwards and forwards skating, edges, and changes in direction. Take a look (she’s the one who starts off skating backwards):

Introducing The First Universal PDF Converter On The Market: Able2Extract 8

We are excited to announce the release of Able2Extract 8! This latest version is a landmark release in the PDF industry today. In a first for Windows, Mac and Linux, Able2Extract 8 is the first cross platform PDF converter that is compatible on all three major operating systems.

Cross Platform Compatibility

Our developers have worked hard the past year to ensure that every user, regardless of platform or hardware, can enjoy the same quick, accurate conversions that, up until now, only Windows users have been able to enjoy.

And it’s paid off.

Not only can Able2Extract 8 operate on different platforms, it can run even better than ever with a few new features and some powerful tweaks.

Cross Platform Compatibility with Mac and Linux for the First Time

Thus far, Able2Extract has been available exclusively on the Windows platform. Not anymore. Able2Extract PDF Converter 8 is now available on the Mac OS X platform. Mac users on the latest Mountain Lion operating system can take full advantage of the same conversion options and features that are offered in the Windows version.

Able2Extract 8 Mac version

And this goes for the Linux platform as well. Users on the Ubuntu and Redhat distributions can finally convert files without any command line tools or complicated scripts. Conversions are now straightforward and simpler through a graphical user interface.

Able2Extract Linux Version

Intuitive PDF to Excel Custom Conversion Interface

Following this same straightforward simplicity is our newly redesigned PDF to Excel custom conversion interface. You can now customize your rows, columns, tables and footers in a more direct way with single click customization options.

PDF To Excel

Also new to our PDF to Excel custom conversion is the Show Preview option. It allows you to see your conversion results before you hit the Convert button.

Able2Extract Show Preview Feature

Give the new features a try on your most complicated PDF tables!

New Easy PDF Navigation & Viewing Features

Once you open a PDF in Able2Extract 8, you’ll also notice a Preview Pane on the left hand side. This new side bar gives you better navigational control and a quick overview of your PDF’s pages, bookmarks and attachments. Multiple PDFs are now visually within reach and easy to work with.

Able2Extract Navigation sidebar

Improved OCR Technology

Even the OCR engine in our Professional version has been improved. Scanned PDFs are usually poor in quality with broken, grainy text. Able2Extract Professional’s OCR technology was tweaked to generate image-based conversions more accurately and smoothly. Trust us. You’ll feel the difference.

To test these features out for yourself, download an Able2Extract 8 free trial from the download page. Once you’re on the page, just select your platform and click on the download button.

Download Able2Extract 8

Don’t forget to let us know what you think of this latest version!

Bridging The Geographical Gap: Introducing Investintech’s Belgrade Office

We just switched up our main Facebook page photo with a spectacular photo of a place that can’t be found anywhere in the world. And rightly so.

The view is a unique one that is significant to us, here at Investintech, and it comes with a little bit of background we thought would help give the photo some context.

You may not know it, but Investintech.com was founded as a finance related startup in early 2000 in Toronto, Ontario. The company was started by a small group of people just barely out of college who wanted to develop a platform that would enable professionals to be more efficient with financial reports.

The original start up faced a number of issues and challenges, and consequently, the focus after three years of hard work shifted towards data extraction from PDF files. On December 1, 2003, Able2Extract v.2.0 was released. For the next four years, Investintech.com steadily grew, gradually developing more products such as Able2Doc, Absolute Server, and Sonic PDF Creator.

As business operations became more complex, the company opened an office in Belgrade, Serbia in 2007. Today that office is filled with more than 20 great colleagues and hard working individuals we are proud to have as members of the Investintech team.

And the rest, as they say, is history.

What you are looking at in the photo is the Investintech view from two different parts of the world, bridging the geographical gap between both offices. You can see our Toronto headquarters facing our Belgrade counterpart in the awesome photo mashup our design team put together.

The photo represents two very iconic and distinct landmarks. You may already be familiar with the CN Tower skyline located in downtown Toronto. The foreground, however, is from Belgrade. It depicts the plateau on which the statue of “The Victor,” the protector of Belgrade, stands. It resides in the part of the Kalemegdan medieval fortress that is the core and the oldest section of Belgrade. It stands on the cliff like ridge overlooking the confluence of the Sava River into the Danube. (Read more: http://bit.ly/4lD8Mm)

Sit back and enjoy the view!

Credit:

Mad Max Prhotography https://www.facebook.com/MadMaxphoto

gtkenji http://www.flickr.com/photos/38969864@N03/

Investintech.com Releases Sonic PDF Creator 3.0!

Great news for avid PDF and Investintech users! We’re excited to announce that today we release the latest update to our main PDF creation software: Sonic PDF Creator 3.0.

In this new version, we’ve provided yet another great PDF solution for you once again. This new update includes a newly designed interface, new and improved viewing capabilities and enhanced performance tweaks for all of Sonic’s main PDF editing features.

Don’t worry about re-learning everything for this new update. You’ll be glad to know that the same great Sonic features are still there–they’re only faster, better and more powerful than before. So you can jump right in.

Check out what Sonic PDF Creator 3.0 has to offer.

What’s New?

Sonic PDF Creator 3.0 Advanced Streamlined Interface

You’ll notice that the Sonic landscape has changed drastically. This Sonic 3.0 version introduces a new advanced graphical interface that improves the way in which you create, edit and interact with PDFs.

Updated One-Click Command Toolbar

First off, there’s theToolbar with a fresh new look and layout. To top it off, we’ve added a couple of new commands to the main roster of handy features, which makes editing and creating PDFs more efficient.

All-New Quick Access Sidebar

Second, you can’t miss the brand new side bar. This is where Sonic 3.0 has made it even easier for you to manipulate your PDF files. In this area you can easily adjust and select the options for almost all of your PDF editing needs.

Sonic PDF Creator 3.0 Settings and customization
For instance, when you need to insert or extract pages, the options for that selected action will open in the side bar. You don’t have to leave the PDF viewing window at all. The features are conveniently right there in the same window for easy access.

Improved PDF Viewing

Third, you’ll also notice that the viewing controls have changed their location. Instead of having it on the top, we’ve moved it to the right hand side, keeping it intuitively in reach and in line with the new layout of this latest version.

Sonic PDF Creator 3.0 Improved Viewing Controlls

Sonic’s PDF viewing technology have been tweaked to give you a better viewing experience of your PDF content. Thus, you get an overall higher quality page display and better interaction capabilities with your PDF file.

In a nutshell, Sonic PDF Creator 3.0 offers nothing less than an enhanced PDF user experience whether you have a complex PDF to edit or a secure PDF to create. This latest version can get the job done like never before!

So check it out and feel the difference.

UPDATE: Sonic PDF Creator is discontinued. For more info go here.

The New Able2Extract 7 Is Here!

Now, it isn’t often that PDF conversion gets associated with simplicity. PDF converters are often too complex that only PDF experts can make full use of the software, leaving you stuck with using only the basic features for complex documents.

But, today we’re proud to announce the release of the latest version of our flagship product which eliminates that issue:Able2Extract 7.

In this new version, we’ve got enhanced conversion performance, a newly designed interface, and new and improved conversion capabilities.So whether you have a complex PDF to convert or a presentation due in the next hour, Able2Extract 7 can simplify and improve that conversion process.

This latest version of Able2Extract is the greatest improvement in our PDF conversion products to date.What’s new? What can it do? Read on.

First off, for those who have already used previous versions of Able2Extract, you’ll notice a newly designed user interface. The simple clean design makes it easier to navigate, search and convert your document.Open a file, select your data, and click to convert– all can be done from the toolbar.

Able2Extract Interface

One major feature of Able2Extract7 is that it’s the first PDF converter which can convert to all major Microsoft Office formats: Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Publisher.

Able2Extract Formats

Here’s a sneak peek at the new conversion improvements.

PDF to PowerPoint conversions are faster and more accurate. For those who need a better PDF to PowerPoint output, this conversion feature has been rebuilt with custom options that offer better control over your content.

Improved Excel custom conversion options. As great as the custom Excel conversion options were in the previous version, Able2Extract 7 gives you even more control over the row and column structure of table data being converted.You can tweak your conversion right from the Excel conversion toolbar.

Enhanced PDF to Word graphics and text manipulation features. We all know that as easy as a PDF to Word conversion may sound, it isn’t always the case. Thus, this latest version offers better conversion output and more precise graphics and text handling features.

New PDF to Publisher conversion. You’ve asked for it and here it is. Anyone needing a professional and cost effective publishing solution can now use Able2Extract 7 for PDF to Publisher conversions!

Able2Extract Publisher Conversion

And just as you can custom convert with Word, PowerPoint and Excel, you can also choose to custom convert with Publisher.

Performance wise, Able2Extract 7 can a lot more in a lot less space than most converters.In addition to all the conversion improvements, Able2Extract 7 can now support non-unicode font types.

This means users can convert PDF files in their native language: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arab and Greek. And despite these new features, the overall size of Able2Extract 7 has been reduced!

So check it out. The software is compatible with Windows 7 and Microsoft Office 2007. You can download Able2Extract 7 as a 7-day free trial to test out for yourself.