PDF documents are among the most popular file types used by different users all over the world. PDF files are often used in office work. Every second pricelist or a guide is made in pdf extension, and that is why most office PCs get Adobe Acrobat installed.

Sometime it is very difficult to process pdf files. It can be even more difficult to find missing pdf docs. It happens that you may need to convert Acrobat file into some other extension or to extract text from a pdf doc. It is always nice to have a universal tool that can solve all these problems and fulfill all tasks. You do not have to waste your time and look for several different programs. Have a precise look at PDF Manager from AKS-LABS. This software package is especially designed to process pdf files.

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PDF Manager consists of 4 programs, namely: PDF Search Assistant, PDF Index Assistant, PDF2TXT and Compare PDF. Each program will surprise you with excellent results. In order to learn more about these software products you may read relevant articles in this blog.

You may ask: “Who uses PDF Manager?” This article will attempt to provide you with answers to this question. So, let’s start.

1. Translators. As said above, pdf extension is very popular, and so many translators receive texts in pdf format. Many business letters and personal correspondence is saved in pdf. Translators usually use MS Word in translation, so it is not very convenient to use Acrobat Reader. Thus, it is necessary to extract text from pdf file and paste it in another text editor. PDF2TXT is an effective utility to fulfill such goals. Within a short period of time you will be able to have your pdf doc in *.txt extension. Translators often have to compare different versions of similar documents. In this sense, Compare PDF is the right tool to use.
2. Secretaries and document officers. A modern secretary has to process much information, create and edit numerous files, including pdf files. PDF Manager is a necessary tool for document officers and secretaries. For instance, a secretary may use Compare PDF utility to contrast two different versions of a contract. It is very important to find differences between draft agreements in order to avoid problems in future. If a document officer urgently needs a pdf file but he cannot find it, then use of PDF Search Assistant is highly recommended. In order to convert pdf file and use its text in other text editors, PDF2TXT is the best solution.
3. Managers and sales managers. If you spend an hour and browse folders in the manager’s laptop you will see how many important documents and templates it has. Sales managers always deal with pricelists, product descriptions and tech specifications, guides, business and advertising offers etc. Many of these documents have *.pdf extension. Of course, PDF Manager is a must for professionals working with a great number of pdf files. For example, a sales manager may want to compare pricelists or product descriptions in order to inform customers of differences between them. Every program in PDF Manager software package will be quite helpful for a successful manager.
4. Editors. As known, editors work with text. This is what they get paid for. Like translators, editors receive many of the text in pdf files. An editor may compare two translation versions of the same text to pick up the best. Or he may introduce amendments to the original translation and post own comments. Compare PDF is a very helpful program in this sense. If an editor need to have target text in doc or txt extension then use of PDF2TXT is strongly recommended.
5. Teachers and professionals working in the field of education. These days, many lectures are available in e-format. A student connects to the server and downloads a lecture. Many study materials have pdf extension. Thus, a high school teacher or a professor certainly needs special tools to manage pdf files. PDF Search Assistant is a good tool to find missing lectures (a professor may have hundreds of them in his PC). If a teacher often looks for certain files in a certain folder, then he can create a search index and make search process much faster and convenient.
6. Managers of sites offering pdf e-books and owners of huge pdf e-books collections. Nowadays, it is possible to download a book in pdf extension to read using tablet PC or iPhone. With PDF Manager you will be able to easily find necessary books in your collection or compare different editions of these books. It is also possible to convert pdf books into plain text files and use them for instance to publish certain citations on the web site.
7. Lawyers. It is well known that lawyers take care of every word or symbol in the contract. A lawyer cannot afford losing important files. With PDF Manager lawyers have an opportunity of contrasting draft versions of contacts, review and approve business documents, convert pdf files to other extensions, comment on changes in the text of agreements etc.
8. Copywriters. These people specialize in writing texts for web sites. These texts are being constantly changed. Thus, in order to track these changes a copywriter would appreciate using PDF Manager. Many copywriters are looking for texts online and download them to further change and post on the web site. Sometimes, it is impossible to extract text from pdf file, so PDF2TXt converters will be quite helpful.

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Those who manage or own internet sites offering e-books, certainly need powerful tools to process pdf documents. Files are often lost, or they need to be converted into another extension. PDF files often need to be contrasted, for instance, to see differences in the book editions.

PDF Manager is a complex solution designed to process pdf files. This software packaged developed by AKS-LABS consists of 4 programs: PDF2TXT (to convert pdf docs into txt files), Compare PDF (to contrast pdf files), PDF Index Assistant (to index and search pdf files) and PDF Search Assistant (to find missing pdf files). You can read more about these programs in this blog while this article focuses on how managers of e-books sites can benefit from using PDF Manager. Let’s review some possible situations.

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Imagine that you need to find an e-book in pdf stored somewhere in your PC. You do not have much time for manual search. Using PDF Search Assistant you will easily spot missing pdf e-book. Of course, you need to know keywords, i.e. words used in the contents of the book. Besides, you can use some additional information, such as file size and its date. For example, you can look for files larger than 10 MB or only for pdf docs created between 1 and 10 of January, 2010. These additional criteria will surely narrow search results, and you are sure to find the exact pdf files you have been looking for.

Sometimes, you may need to have your e-book in Word or txt extension. This can be requirement of your customers, or you simply need to edit this text in MS Word or Notepad. PDF2TXT solution will help you convert pdf documents into plain text files. Moreover, you can add several pdf files to be converted. This can save you much time if files are numerous and particularly large.

With Compare PDF it is possible to contrast two versions of the same pdf e-book. Thus, you will know the differences, and you can use this info in your further work.

Millions of people are using pdf files in their work. Every second pricelist, presentation or guides is made in pdf extension. Adobe Acrobat is installed in all office computers. But often, it is not very convenient to process pdf files. It also happens that you miss some of them. To solve these problems, one needs a reliable software package to work with pdf files. PDF Manager from AKS-LABS is a combination of 4 software products that will help you find, index, convert and compare pdf documents. You can read more about every program right here in this blog, while this article focuses on how editors make use of PDF Manager.

Editors often deal with texts in different extensions. As said above, pdf documents are very widely used all over the world. Thus, in order to convert Acrobat docs or find the ones you have lost, editors should use PDF Manager. How? Let’s review some possible cases.

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Situation #1. You are an editor who has two pdf documents which contain translation variants of the same text. Your job is to find out the differences in translation, choose the best version and compile a final translation text. In this situation you need Compare PDF utility which is a part of PDF Manager. Having opened the two texts in Compare PDF you will immediately see all differences between them. Besides, it is possible to use different comparison modes (char by char, word by word and by keywords). Commenting function will make it possible to communicate with authors of the text or translators (for instance, you may express your opinion as to quality of translation in the comments).

Situation #2. You are an editor who has just received 5 pdf documents which you need to use in your work. In other words, you need texts. By using PDF2TXT program you will easily convert your pdf docs into txt files. Conversion takes very little time. Besides, you can convert several files at a time.

Most businesses cannot function without IT support. You can hardly find an employee who does not know how to use computer, create a document, edit and print it. With the development of software industry there appeared numerous file extensions used for different purposes. Those, who regularly use PDF files know from their experience that sometimes it is quite difficult to process these types of files.

PDF Manager from AKS-LABS offers a complex solution of any problems related to comparison, indexing, searching and conversion of PDF document, which are very popular in offices and in the World Wide Web.

PDF Manager is a combination of 4 products: PDF2TXT, PDF Compare, PDF Search Assistant and PDF Index Assistant. Each utility has own functions and tasks, and you can familiarize yourself with these software types by downloading them for evaluation purposes or simply purchasing the whole package.

Who can benefit from using PDF manager? Most certainly, these are copywriters and authors as they often deal with text files having different extensions, including PDF files. So, let’s review hypothetical cases of PDF Manager’s applications in copywriter’s work.

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Imagine that you have just received amended advertising text from your business partner. It somewhat differs from the text you have written. Both documents have *.pdf extension. It is not easy to manually compare them. For such instances you can use Compare PDF utility. By contrasting the two files versions you are able to spot differences and similarities between the texts. Comparison process does not take much time. Besides, Compare PDF guarantees excellent results.

Imagine that you urgently need to find a promo text you have written for a certain company. You are not 100% sure in which folder you should look for it. This is where PDF Search Assistant or PDF Index Assistant can help you out. These programs are powerful search engines that will provide you with the most accurate results. All you need to know is just a keyword from the missing file.

Sometimes copywriters need to extract text from pdf files to use it in their further work. PDF2TXT is a converter that can easily do this job. Within a short period of time you will have your pdf doc in plain text files.

If you have to look for files every day (or at least regularly) then you need specialized file search software. Forget about manual search, especially if you have to find particular file types. As known, pdf files are very popular among different PC users. Many documents are made out in pdf extension, and almost all office PCs all over the world have Acrobat Reader installed.

Looking for pdf files is not easy. Many search systems cannot look for keywords inside the files. This is a very ineffective search! What if the only thing you remember about the missing file is some words from its contents?

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Use PDF Search Assistant which will solve all your problems related to search for pdf files. One of the greatest advantages of this program is that it fist creates an index of files, and only then performs search procedure. So, let’s make a brief overview of index and search process.

As said above, you have to create an index first. There is nothing difficult here. The wizard will offer you choices and you will only have to make your selections and choose the course folder, as well as location of the index file. Having chosen type on index (PDF Search Assistant will offer you short explanations and characteristics of each type, so you will be well informed on this issue). Once the index is created you can process to step 2 – the search itself.

PDF Search Assistant searches for pdf files by keywords. So, you need to know at least one keyword. If you do not have any other information on the missing files, the press Search button and wait for results.

However, if you are aware of the size of missing files and date they were created, modified or accessed, then you should definitely use search by date and size features.

PDF Search Assistant makes it possible to preview files in the search results list for you to choose the document you have been looking for.

PDF Search Assistant is a powerful file search engine, which, as its name suggests, looks for missing pdf files. But the program can search for txt and picture files as well. However, its main goal is to find pdf files by keywords or other criteria.

The program is very simple and easy to use, and this is, perhaps, one of its key advantages. Even inexperienced PC users will need several minutes to get things cleared up. A user friendly interface and a special file search wizard make search process available to everybody. Besides, looking for missing pdf files with PDF Search Assistant is fast and enjoyable!

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The program has a number of features and functions which make it possible to achieve more accurate results. Perhaps, you have neither time nor desire to waste an hour in order to find 4 pdf files containing certain keywords. Well, PDF Search Assistant makes file search a matter of minutes or in some cases even seconds.

Basically, you can take two ways to search for missing files. If you are somewhat confused by the program interface, menus and tabs, you can use files search wizard which will help you find pdf file. Search wizard is a series of dialogues boxes in which you are offered to make choices and enter information relevant in the search process. This option is advisable to PC rookies and dummies.

If PDF Search Assistant interface is understood to you, then please perform such actions in order to find missing pdf files:

1. Choose a folder/directory in which you want PDF Search Assistant to look for pdf files.
2. Enter keyword. Please, keep in mind that you can check such an option as Letter case (for instance you are sure that the keyword contains all capital letters).
3. PDF Search Assistant may look for missing pdf files in zip archives.
4. Use Date or Size options in case you have info on size and date of the lost files.
5. Preview found files in search the results list.

Sometimes, we do not need much time to find missing files. If these files concern business then we have no other choice but to find them. Traditional methods (manual search) do not work here. Thus, use of special automated file search software is a must. Moreover, some users need specialized software that focuses on searching for particular file types.

PDF Search Assistant is such a program. As its name suggests, this file search solution specializes on finding lost pdf files. What do we know about pdf documents? They are very popular among users with all levels of computer literacy. Any office PC has Acrobat Reader installed. It happens that we lose files, including pdf ones.

PDF Search Assistant has one ultimate goal – finding lost files in pdf extension. The program has a number of additional features that make search fast and convenient. Besides, simplicity and convenience of this program is one of its major advantages.

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So, let’s review search process with PDF Search Assistant. There are a number of actions which you need to take to get desirable search results.

There are two ways to start your search. You can either use files search wizard or take all necessary steps by yourself. File search wizard is recommended to inexperienced PC users. The wizard will guide you through the entire search process asking to you make choices and enter keywords.

If you choose the other way, then you need to start with the selection of a folder in which PDF Search Assistant will look for pdf files. After that you should enter keywords by which PDF Search Assistant will perform search procedure.

PDF Search Assistant can look for files in zip archives and take into account letter case (for instance, you know for sure that a missing pdf file contains the word SEARCH).

If you possess information on the size of missing files or date they were created, you can use this info to narrow search results (tabs Date and Size). As a results, PDF Search Assistant will offer you a list of found pdf files which you can preview right in the program interface.

Why are we talking about this? When we look for files, size of hard drive matters much. These days, 300-500GB hard drives are considered quite normal. Now, imagine that you have to search for missing files that are hidden somewhere in your local disc. If you use traditional (manual) method, you will probably spend your entire working day looking for files.

In order to save your time you need to use a reliable and effective file search engine. If you do not want your search to last forever, you require a system that takes into account individual requirements to search of missing files. Developers from AKS-LABS were aware of this when creating their file search solution – PDF Search Assistant.

Despite its name, PDF Search Assistant can look not only for Adobe Acrobat files, but also plain text and picture files. However, key goal of PDF Search Assistant is to look for missing pdf files. This program is VERY easy to use. In fact, some users may think that it is an ineffective utility. The first impression is wrong. As soon as you start using this program you will understand that you do not need any other additional tools to find lost pdf files.

PDF Search Assistant has numerous advantages and features that make search for missing Acrobat files effective and very accurate. With PDF Search Assistant you will find only those files that you need.

PDF Search Assistant will look for keywords both in the files names and inside the files themselves. This is possible due to converter which transforms pdf files into plain text documents that are easy to read.

Perhaps, one of the greatest advantages of PDF Search Assistant is preview function. PDF Search Assistant may find hundreds of files that fit into your search criteria. But the problem is that you need only some of them. With PDF Search Assistant you will be able to preview files in order to see the context in which keywords are used. In what situations this function can be helpful?

Imagine that you local drive contains about 30 pdf files with tech details on certain products. All the files contain the same keywords. But you need only one of them. PDF Search Assistant will list search results for you. By clicking on the file in the search results list you can preview pdf docs. Thus, you will need very little time to pick up the right file. Can you imagine how much time would you need to open all the files and looking through them? Ages! By the way, you can preview either some of abstracts containing keywords or all of them.

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It may be possible that missing pdf files can be packed inside zip archives. This is not a problem for PDF Search Assistant as it views zip archives as ordinary folders.

PDF Search Assistant has further advanced search options. If you have information on the date missing pdf files were created, modified of accessed you can considerable narrow search results. The same applies to search by size. If you are aware of the size of missing files then enter relevant figures to get more accurate search results.

Let’s talk about search by date and size in detail. It is possible not only to search by date, but also by exact time span. Thus, you can choose to search for files created in the last few days, or between a certain period, or a time span (for instance between 12AM and 1PM of January, 1, 2010). This is very convenient and saves much time during your search.

Search by size implies that you are aware of the file size. There are three options available: files equal to, larger and smaller than a particular value (expressed in KB and MB). When you use search by date or size, relevant menus are lighted with blue color. Do not forget to uncheck the boxes if you do not need them.

Inexperienced PC users would certainly appreciate search wizard which will guide them through entire search process. Thus, PDF Search Assistant will ask you to make certain choices step by step. So, you will have no opportunity to do something wrong, even if you want to.

When PDF Search Assistant offers you files in the search results you can apply traditional right mouse menu functions to them. For instance, it is possible to select all and move to one folder where you will not lose them again. This is very convenient because you do not have to go to the target folder to copy or cut files.

Search sessions can be saved and then opened again which is applicable for big searches. Search results will be displayed in the report which can be full and short and have two formats: HTML and RTF.

PDF Search Assistant is a necessary tool if you have to look for certain files by keyword and you are not quite aware of target files location. The program does all the hard work for you. Preview function makes it possible to look inside the files without opening them, which saves time.

PDF Search Assistant can be used by a wide range of professionals. Sure, these are mostly people who work with information stored mainly in PDF files which are very popular in offices all over the world.  So, PDF Search Assistant is used by journalists, translators, programmers, project managers etc.

This is a reliable program which surprises its users with simplicity and excellent search results. Having purchased PDF Search Assistant you will be able to find any file or document stored in your PC.

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