Thanks for taking the time for the review. A couple of notes in reply:

1. In all of our beta-testing it generally took 10 seconds to 30 seconds per page for conversion. If it is taking longer on your computer I would be interested to see what the PDF looks like as longer wait times are not typical.

2. The trial does allow you to see the result as a spreadsheet within the application, with resizable rows and columns and editable cells. The only thing it doesn't allow you to do is export the result into Excel or save it to disk.

3. The use case where this software really excels is on scanned ledgers that wouldn't work through the Windows software that you specified as it requires optical character recognition. The fact that the PDF that you tried was produced by MS Word would make me suspect that the content itself was not a spreadsheet, and thus wouldn't be a good fit for this program. This program is specifically designed to work with tabular spreadsheet content and produce an editable spreadsheet from that content. For flowing documents (e.g. MS Word input) you may want to check out our other application PDF OCR X which produces text from any image or PDF input.

No. The table is 10 columns of numbers with about 25 rows per page and header information on each page. The original file is output from a minicomputer. The problem is that the output that is generated and dumped into a MSW file uses frames around every number, so it looks fine on the screen and will print. You just can't manipulate the data in Excel, since a copy and paste produces a mess. Text conversion and importing doesn't work either. Sorry I can't send you the file since it's proprietary, but I never even saw the detection of rows and columns. The image just turned to back after about a minute.

So I see you put out an update to version 1.0.1 to address the black image problem. Great, but you failed to update the About box and info window. Now at least I can see what PSP wants to do. Too bad column identification isn't correct. I see the red horizontal and vertical lines but can't adjust them in any way. So what's the point?

You also need to work on program's stability and speed. The competition (on the PC side) is a lot faster. At the very least, you need to add an open window command to the file menu because if you close the main window there's no way to re-open it again short of quiting the program and re-starting. Sorry, still stand by my original rating, but encourage you to keep working on this program. We need it.

The dev offered a quick and thoughtful reply to your rather harsh review. Why not contact them directly to see if they can help with a solution for your unusual scenario instead of continuing to bash their new product as it comes out of the gate? "you failed... too bad... what's the point... you also need to..." Are you serious?

Christopher -- You are correct in that my criticism was harsh and to some degree I regret that, but still would very much like to see this product progress and succeed. I believe the points I raised are valid and the scenario I used to test the software is as easy as it could be. No having to guess on oddly shaped characters because of a scan. This is direct sans-serif block number output in clear straight columns. The speed and stability are what I would expect in a less than 1.0 commercial product, so I believe their beta testers let them down. I will try to carry the conversation on with them privately, but have not had much success with that with other developers in the past. Public posts usually get the best action and attention.